Kicking and Screaming

Kicking and Screaming

1995 · 96 min · EN · R · 6.2 (179 votes)
Dir. Noah Baumbach · Starring Josh Hamilton, Olivia D'Abo, Chris Eigeman, Parker Posey, Jason Wiles, Cara Buono · Music Phil Marshall

Anxiety loves company.

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After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding instead to move in with several friends, all of whom can't quite work up the inertia to escape their university's pull. Nobody wants to make any big decisions that would radically alter his life, yet none of them wants to end up like Chet, the professional student who tends bar and is in his tenth year of university studies.

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It feels like a hazy, late-night conversation with your best friends after one too many beers. A poignant, yet funny, exploration of looming adulthood and the fear of making the wrong choice. It's the quiet dread of inertia mixed with the comfort of shared uncertainty.

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