“Book Club” (**1/2 out of four) was an occasionally amusing comedy about four elderly women (Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen, Candace Bergen, Jane Fonda) and their various tribulations with the men in their lives (Don Johnson, Richard Dreyfuss, Wallace Shawn, and others) and also loneliness and getting older. The four female stars seem to be having fun and their enthusiasm and good-natured chemistry makes this entertaining to a point but watching women in their 60’s and 70’s crudely talking about sex is awkward and even uncomfortable at times. Fans of the stars should probably take a look, others may want to watch “Golden Girls” reruns instead. Fonda is oddly made up here to look like Sharon Osbourne.

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