Please Give (2010) — Screenplay
A New York couple clashes with the granddaughters of their elderly tenant while awaiting her death to reclaim the apartment.
- Written by
- Nicole Holofcener
- Genre
- Comedy, Drama
- Studio
- Sony Pictures Classics
- Length
- 135 pages
This script is a sharp character study in discomfort, using overlapping scenes and loaded silences to expose the moral compromises beneath polite urban coexistence. Study how Holofcener builds tone between comedy and drama through clipped, naturalistic dialogue, and how she parcels out each character's self-justification to complicate simple sympathies.
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