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Fifty

2015 · 1h 41m · N/A Drama, Romance
Directed by Biyi Bandele

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Overview

Tola, Elizabeth, Maria and Kate are four friends forced at midlife to take inventory of their personal lives, while juggling careers and family against the sprawling backdrops of the upper middle-class neighbourhoods of Ikoyi and Victoria Island in Lagos.

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Rotten

Basically, they made a lousy, mid-2000s-era Katherine Heigl romance with a handful of explicit sex scenes spliced throughout the familiar cliches.

Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten

Think of it as the "Downton Abbey" of bondage, designed neither to menace nor to offend but purely to cosset the fatigued imagination.

Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Fresh

It realizes this story is ridiculous in ways the book itself never could. It has an actual sense of humor.

Christy Lemire, ChristyLemire.com
Rotten

It's been said that the movie contains 20 minutes of sex; if this is the case, it must contain at least 40 minutes of Ana biting her lip or putting a pencil in her mouth.

Christopher Orr, The Atlantic
Rotten

Who would have imagined that a movie about sex could be so boring?

James Berardinelli, ReelViews

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