Review: Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin have great chemistry, but it’s not enough to save this black comedy about vengeance and buried trauma
,” for an attempt to re-create the delicious fusion of dark comedy and drama he forged with her in that 2015 abortion-themed story. Here, the sober subject of his new film is sexual assault, in an icky and not especially amusing plot that pairs Tomlin with Jane Fonda as old pals who reunite at the funeral of a friend to confront the dead woman’s husband over a decades-old encounter.
But Weitz and his game cast do try.Fonda’s Claire is a twice-divorced octogenarian who flies from Ohio to California after the death of her friend Joyce, announcing to Joyce’s widower, Howard , immediately upon arrival at the funeral that she intends to kill him. Enlisting Tomlin’s Evelyn — who lives in a retirement facility, where she has access to a resident’s flare gun — as an accessory, Claire prepares to dispatch Howard.
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