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Here's Everything You Need To Know About 'Book Club': Keaton, Fonda, Bergen and Steenburgen

When the film puts its four leads together, it sparkles. When they're apart, it's simply "a pleasant, low-stakes affair, as numbing as a two-glass buzz."
Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen, and Jane Fonda are freed of their inhibitions after reading "Fifty Shades of Grey" in <em>Book Club. </em>

In order to shoot the underwater sequences in 1989's , director James Cameron converted a turbine pit and a containment vessel at an abandoned nuclear power plant into giant tanks, each holding millions of gallons of water. Imagine those same containment vessels with stems on the bottom and that roughly suggests the white wine budget for , a benign comedy where the pours are generous and the innuendo is crisp and full-bodied, with

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