Walking and Talking

this is what audiences need to see more of. Good characterization, realistic dialog (no slap-stick cheap tricks, farce etc.) and capable actors.I have seen "Friends With Money" which was a disappointment compared to this and "Lovely and Amazing". This film... Full review

Some relationships between childhood friends endure the passage of time, as it's the case with Laura and Amelia, who as the film opens are seen as young girls. After some years they have met again as adults and their friendship... Full review

Hip, witty, likable precursor to Sex and the City. The film has a Woody Allen feel, but with a 90s feminist slant. Set in New York City, the camera follows the romantic trials and tribulations of its two lead females... Full review

While an observation of New York neuroses hardly breaks new ground, the characters as drawn by writer/director Nicole Holofcener are interesting enough to keep us engrossed in this charming, sometimes moving comedy.A New York drama critic faulted Catherine Keener in... Full review

I do believe that Anne Heche is a severely underrated actor. She stands out in every movie that I've seen her in, including this one. She switches from sympathetic and lovable to borderline nuts very quickly, and then switches back... Full review

A lovely little movie, with fine performances, a real feel-good indie movie. Catherine Keener (so vastly different in "Being John Malkovich"!) is wonderful, playing the insecurities of her character to great effect (the scene where she stalks the video store... Full review

"Walking and Talking" is a slice of life flick which focuses on two thirtyish female best friends (Heche & Keener). A dialogue-intensive plotless situational relationship light comedy, "W&T" offers good performances, a lively script, and a variety of situations with... Full review

I have seen Walking and Talking several times, and am continually impressed with Nicole Holofcener's writing and directing. These characters really act as if they are best friends. One great accomplishment of this film is that it is about everyday... Full review

There's not an unusual amount of walking in this flick, but it has all the talking you'd care for. So if movies that are in the 'thirtysomething' mold aren't to your liking, don't stop here. (The star, Catherine Keener, even... Full review

Holofcener's film feels untidily honest..... ... Full Review

The more humorous moments and the quite decent performances make "Walking and Talking" worthwhile. Holofcener, a television writer who has made some short films, has a good ear for dialogue. ... Full Review

I don't want to damn Holofcener's efforts with faint praise, but the best way to describe ``Walking and Talking'' is to say that it's pleasant and charming. In ``Walking and Talking,'' a relationship comedy that opens today at the Embarcadero Center, writer/director Nicole Holofcener addresses a subject that Hollywood rarely gets right -- the complexities of female friendship -- and delivers a sweet, quirky story that's also an accurate reading on the way we live now. ... Full Review

Laura, as portrayed by the radiant Heche, is a bright, controlling beauty who allows herself to be adored by both her friend and her fiance. Writer-director Nicole Holofcener's earnest first feature is a low-budget comedy drawn from the pages of her own dear diary. ... Full Review

The answers to these questions are not nearly as interesting as the blind, determined, all-too-human way the characters walk and talk their way toward them. Together they bring one of this year's most convincing and endearing relationships to the screen. ... Full Review

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SYNOPSIS: Laura (Anne Heche) and Amelia (Catherine Keener) are the best of friends.Both have high-powered careers and live in Manhattan and both are very much looking toward the future. ... Full Article

No one in the world is perfect. As a race of human beings, we hopefully live day to day attempting to make out as best we can, but sometimes even that doesn't seem good enough. ... Full Article

Pity, if you can, the aspiring young filmmaker. On the one hand, twentysomething scribes want to heed the oft-heard maxim ''Write what you know.'' On the other, what most of them know isn't exactly dazzling: college dorm rooms, the corner... ... Full Article

In her gingery, aptly titled "Walking and Talking," writer-director Nicole Holofcener, making her feature debut, deftly reveals those moments of unintended hurt and unexpected vulnerability that seem an inevitable component of our closest relationships. ... Full Article