The
friend turns out to be anxious and vulnerable Charlotte (Keira Knightley), a famous
actress who can't
leave her Holland Park home without being bombarded by the snapping and flashing of verminlike paparazzi.
In Brett Haley's gentle but potent comedy, veteran
actress Blythe Danner plays a seventy - ish retired schoolteacher, long widowed, whose staid life takes a sharp
left when two men appear on the scene almost simultaneously: Pool cleaner Martin Starr is the kind of platonic
friend you meet only once in a lifetime; silver fox Sam Elliott is the love interest you never could have planned for.