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Moving On is a 2022 American comedy film written and directed by Paul Weitz. The film stars Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Malcolm McDowell, Sarah Burns, and Richard Roundtree.
The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 13, 2022.
In December 2022, it was announced that Roadside Attractions acquired North American rights to the film, which was released on March 17, 2023. This was Richard Roundtree's final film to be released before his death in October 2023.
Plot
Claire and Evelyn, estranged former friends, reconnect at the funeral of a mutual friend, and decide to exact revenge on their dead friend's widower for the harm he caused to Claire decades earlier.
The film opens with Claire traveling to attend the funeral of her old friend Joyce. At the service, she reconnects with Evelyn. During the funeral, Claire approaches Joyce's widower, Howard, and bluntly informs him that she intends to kill him this weekend. It is revealed that Howard had wronged Claire decades ago, although the nature of the wrong isn't yet specified. It is also revealed that Evelyn and Joyce had been lovers.
Evelyn decides to help Claire with her plan and they make attempts to acquire a gun with which to kill Howard.
Meanwhile, Claire reconnects with Ralph, her ex-husband, whom she has not seen in years; he asks her why she left him, and she cannot bring herself to articulate the reason. Still, they have a romantic evening together and make love. But Claire slips out early in the morning, unready for an ongoing relationship.
Claire confronts Howard about the assault in a tense scene, insisting that he admit to raping her forty-six years previously; she describes the assault in detail. He denies it. During the course of the film, she tries to kill him with a flare gun—the only kind of gun they've been able to acquire—but he collapses from what Claire assumes is a heart attack before she pulls the trigger; instead, she uses the flare gun to signal that he needs medical help. In the hospital, it is revealed that Howard actually had a non-life-threatening anxiety attack. Claire tries to smother him to death with a pillow but is stopped by Evelyn. In the end, during a final confrontation between Claire, Evelyn, and Howard in the parking garage at the hospital, Howard is accidentally hit by another driver and dies.
After Howard's funeral, Claire reconnects again with Ralph, and she is now ready to have a potentially ongoing romance with him again.
Cast
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 75% of 79 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.4/10. The website's consensus reads: "Moving On fails frustratingly often to rise to the level of its leads, but Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin are entertaining company regardless of the context." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 60 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.
Peter Debruge of Variety wrote: "We've been spoiled this past decade, discovering what Fonda and Tomlin can do together. Why didn’t Hollywood see the potential of this pairing half a century earlier?"
References
External links
Moving On at IMDb
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