Walking and Talking reminded me a lot of Claudia Weill’s “Girlfriends” from 1979.  Almost the same plot.  But I’m a huge fan of everything NH does.  I have some different comments about FWM, though.
A.  I too, don’t get how the CK character “suddenly” realized she’d be cutting off her neighbor’s views by putting in a 2nd floor.  Uhm, its why you don’t stand up while others are trying to watch a movie.
B.  I totally believed that husband could be gay and also be the world’s perfect husband, that happens a lot.
C.  Also totally believed that woman could leave her hair unwashed, women in that echelon are surrounded by yes people.  (I’m from there).
D.  The JA character didn’t sleep with the fat guy because he had money, she slept with him because he suddenly wasn’t poor and needy in her estimation, and having money (and hiding the fact that he was rich) would put a little hair on any guy’s balls.
E.  The ONE, no, TWO main things I didn’t buy; were all the scenes with Scott Caan.  I disliked the JA character so much for letting that creep rout around in her client’s house!  Would you really? Expose the trust of someone to a one night stand?? Ewww…. and also, I can’t buy that she would sit there in the Los Feliz diner and let him carry on the lunchtime flirtation with his ex…I would have walked, any girl would have walked, and NOT have paid the check on the way out.  It wasn’t like he was tall, handsome, had a cool job, was a great lover, or had been fixed up by someone she owed a favor to (like a grandma or favorite aunt). He was a short snotty loser with no personality who couldn’t even remember her answers to his morose questions. 
I really love the movie but…you know…Scott Caan is probably a nice person, but.  If Al Pacino or George Clooney did that? Maybe, but not a gym instructor with no personality, she was too cute for that.  She would have been used to being treated better.  She also would have had a coterie of ex-boyfriends still calling her, not just the other way around.  Right girls?
But I still love NH and this movie.

Saw the movie at the Encino in an audience that was the valley equivalent of West LA types such as portrayed in the movie.  My wife and I enjoyed the movie but on the ride home we discussed some of the plotline curiosities.  A/why wouldn’t the screenwriter understand how adding a second floor to her home would affect the view of her neighbors.  B/all the characters seem to have been marriage-less or child-less well into their thirties.  Late-bloomers or career-track.  C/How long was Aniston character a teacher before she gave it up—must have been quite a few years unless she’s been a housekeeper.  D/Most of all, are we supposed to see Anison character as a “golddigger” who jumps into bed with a rather unattractive, seemingly depressed man who just happens to be rich.  Is it all about money?  I do know that West Valley people are often working overtime to keep up with the Jones’ newest SUV or vacation destination.  Smell the roses, not the filthy lucre.

Yeah so you’ve paid some serious dues and
you know your way around the “political”
block.  All the more puzzling to me is the
obvious blind spots you seem to evince in
your profuse pontificating; so much so that
I am leaning toward a double-agent i.d.on
you.  I caught your Left Right and Stupid show
tonight—what caught my ear was the char-
acterization of the health insurance SCAM
just now put forward by the gov’t of the
Masachusetts commonwealth.  I have to say
in passing that although you and your fellow
poondits may not be screaming, you seem
to be perfect examples of Ronald Reagan’s
infamous Effete Snob category.  That said,
are you really stupid?  Do you really think
that a health plan that kowtows totally to the
Insurance Thievery, coupled with the obscene
drug mfg. and medical providers(yes dear,
greedy DOCTORS) insatiable and ever more
sleazy public robbery , is a “step forward”?
I’m through you and through with you Scheer.
You have been EXPOSED by yours truly….

I’m with you Sheerly, I’m meet all that criteria as well, late thirties, single and financially challenged but I am not worried by my “diminishing eggs” because I don’t equate my self worth with my reproductive potential. Not every woman’s goal is a husband and family. Do we have no value otherwise? I am not sad nor desperate nor in denial. I am enjoying my singleness and freedom and not searching for “the missing other half” because I know I am perfect, whole and complete as I am. Can we please start offering girls and women alternate visions of ways to be in this world and know that they have value as well?

ya sure but whatever are lives reveal, if we had a little fun or played our roles well ,so it was life.

Does this mean she’ll marry her stepson?

Financial stress from a female perspective is a very interesting theme. I´m really looking forward to se this film. I see her wish to break the “money taboo” with a(comedy?)also involve other taboos in life. How vunerable people feel when their income is revealed is true. It´s like having a prizetag arround your neck. A womans worth should never be related to her income or if she is married or not, but that is exactly how women still measure other women. Ask any single mom.

Now she sounds like an interesting person to be around.