Synopsis
Book Club: The Next Chapter (2023) is the sequel to the 2018 romantic comedy, reuniting Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen for another chapter — this time in Italy. You can watch it online on iFILM. Director Bill Holderman sends the four friends on a girls' trip through Rome, Venice and the Tuscan countryside, with Andy Garcia and Don Johnson back for brief appearances.
The plan is simple enough: a celebration trip, long overdue. What unfolds is a series of cheerful disasters — wrong hotel bookings, an accidental wedding, contraband in a suitcase, and the kinds of conversations that only happen when you're stranded somewhere unexpected with people you've known for forty years. Old grievances and new decisions get aired in roughly equal measure, usually over wine.
The film is openly undemanding, and it knows it. What makes it work is the four leads playing off each other with zero self-consciousness — four women in their 70s and 80s treating the material as a lark and landing it. For a light, well-cast travel comedy that doesn't pretend its characters have stopped having a life, stream Book Club: The Next Chapter online on iFILM.
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