Life Partners movie review & film summary (2014)
Why does it feel nearly revelatory to see a film that treats female friendship with respect? Not as a device to get one of the women hitched to the right guy and not as an undeveloped subplot to serve as comic relief until said protagonist walks down the aisle. This is at the heart of why “Bridesmaids” was such a smash success—Kristen Wiig conveyed something truthful about female characters who felt like friends and not plot devices or the broad caricatures of so many Hollywood comedies. And yet we’ve seen few films like it since. And so the moments of believability in the surprisingl...
Source: rogerebert.com