Watch enough Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda interviews, and you’ll pick up on a charming contradiction. The longtime friends and Hollywood legends have a specific onscreen dynamic, one they’ve perfected since debuting opposite each other and country music legend Dolly Parton in Colin Higgins’ beloved “9 to 5.”
Tomlin’s brilliant and brash wildcard characters — personified middle fingers in heels — typically win over and radicalize Fonda’s sexed-up but straight-laced conservatives with a slow drip of warm frankness and Tomlin’s innate best friend energy. In the 1980 feminist workplace comedy, it’s Tomlin’s veteran supervisor character who ropes Fonda’s naive office newcomer and Parton’s sexually harassed secretary into a revenge plot that nearly kills their terrible boss, Mr. Hart (Dabney Coleman).
On the pair’s popular Netflix sitcom, a stroke of genius by “Friends” co-creator Marta Kauffman, it’s Tomlin’s freedom-fighting Frankie who routinely...
Tomlin’s brilliant and brash wildcard characters — personified middle fingers in heels — typically win over and radicalize Fonda’s sexed-up but straight-laced conservatives with a slow drip of warm frankness and Tomlin’s innate best friend energy. In the 1980 feminist workplace comedy, it’s Tomlin’s veteran supervisor character who ropes Fonda’s naive office newcomer and Parton’s sexually harassed secretary into a revenge plot that nearly kills their terrible boss, Mr. Hart (Dabney Coleman).
On the pair’s popular Netflix sitcom, a stroke of genius by “Friends” co-creator Marta Kauffman, it’s Tomlin’s freedom-fighting Frankie who routinely...
- 3/17/2023
- by Alison Foreman
- Indiewire
The invigorating success of both Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin’s television and film careers over the last few years cannot be overstated. About a decade ago both legends found themselves in a position to move back to the top of the call sheet. This mutual resurgence hit an inflection point with the Netflix show Grace & Frankie, an incredibly successful sitcom that finished with its seventh season only last year.
The duo pair up again in the Paul Weitz tragi-comedy Moving On. The picture opens at the wake of an old friend of both Claire (Fonda) and Evelyn (Tomlin). Minutes after her arrival, a quiet Claire informs her dead friend’s widow Howard (Malcolm McDowell) that she plans to kill him. We gather he committed some unnamed atrocity on her many years before. In due time the movie will reveal how terrible it was and what she plans to do about it.
The duo pair up again in the Paul Weitz tragi-comedy Moving On. The picture opens at the wake of an old friend of both Claire (Fonda) and Evelyn (Tomlin). Minutes after her arrival, a quiet Claire informs her dead friend’s widow Howard (Malcolm McDowell) that she plans to kill him. We gather he committed some unnamed atrocity on her many years before. In due time the movie will reveal how terrible it was and what she plans to do about it.
- 3/14/2023
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
Moving On Trailer — Paul Weitz‘s Moving On (2022) movie trailer has been released by Roadside Attractions. The Moving On trailer stars Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Malcolm McDowell, Richard Roundtree, Catherine Dent, and Marcel Nahapetian. Crew Paul Weitz wrote the screenplay for Moving On. Plot Synopsis Moving On‘s plot synopsis: “Jane Fonda & Lily Tomlin star as [...]
Continue reading: Moving On (2022) Movie Trailer: Lily Tomlin & Jane Fonda reunite to Seek Revenge in Paul Weitz’s Film...
Continue reading: Moving On (2022) Movie Trailer: Lily Tomlin & Jane Fonda reunite to Seek Revenge in Paul Weitz’s Film...
- 2/1/2023
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Moving on is the upcoming movie written and directed by Paul Weitz starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Malcolm McDowell and Richard Roundtree.
Two old friends who reconnect at a funeral, and decide to exact revenge on the widower who wronged them decades before.
Release Date
March 17, 2023
Cast
Jane Fonda
Lily Tomlin
Richard Roundtree
Malcolm McDowell
Catherine Dent
Eddie Martinez
Nancy De Mayo
Carol Herman
Marcel Nahapetian
Jeremiah King...
Two old friends who reconnect at a funeral, and decide to exact revenge on the widower who wronged them decades before.
Release Date
March 17, 2023
Cast
Jane Fonda
Lily Tomlin
Richard Roundtree
Malcolm McDowell
Catherine Dent
Eddie Martinez
Nancy De Mayo
Carol Herman
Marcel Nahapetian
Jeremiah King...
- 2/1/2023
- by Movies Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
"So we're both lousy friends." Roadside Attractions has revealed an official trailer for an under-90-minutes dark comedy titled Moving On, the latest from filmmaker Paul Weitz. This actually premiered at TIFF 2022 last year, and recently played at the Palm Springs Film Festival, with a theatrical release set for March coming up next month. Two old friends reconnect at a funeral and decide to revenge on the widower who messed with them decades before. Along the way, each woman learns to make peace with the past and with each other. Jane Fonda & Lily Tomlin star as the two old friends, along with Malcolm McDowell, Richard Roundtree, Catherine Dent, and Marcel Nahapetian. This does look like it has some funny scenes and sharp dialogue, though the rest of the cliched story doesn't seem that great. Still will be worth watching just for Fonda and Tomlin. // Continue Reading ›››...
- 2/1/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Paul Weitz’s “Moving On” boasts a legendary ensemble that includes Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Malcolm McDowell and Richard Roundtree. It’s always possible for such an illustrious cast to simultaneously elicit excitement and dread, though. Just ask anyone who has endured “Queen Bees,” “Poms,” “Book Club,” “Last Vegas” or “Space Cowboys.”
Good news: “Moving On” doesn’t just aim for warm and pleasant. The film is wickedly droll and shockingly riveting – the operative word being “shockingly.” The element of surprise abounds and is more integral to the plot here than in, say, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.” The less you know, the better because the film defies expectations in the best way possible. With that said, and somewhat heedless of our own advice, this review regrettably must proceed to tell you more. But we won’t spoil anything beyond what’s in the programming notes of the Toronto International Film Festival,...
Good news: “Moving On” doesn’t just aim for warm and pleasant. The film is wickedly droll and shockingly riveting – the operative word being “shockingly.” The element of surprise abounds and is more integral to the plot here than in, say, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.” The less you know, the better because the film defies expectations in the best way possible. With that said, and somewhat heedless of our own advice, this review regrettably must proceed to tell you more. But we won’t spoil anything beyond what’s in the programming notes of the Toronto International Film Festival,...
- 9/17/2022
- by Martin Tsai
- The Wrap
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