Friendship (2024)
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- Synopsis:
- Craig Waterman (Tim Robinson), a marketing executive in the fictional city of Clovis, is preparing to sell his family home alongside his wife, Tami (Kate Mara). Recently recovered from cancer, Tami is frustrated with Craig's emotional unavailability and his lack of interest in her flower business and has rekindled a relationship with her ex-boyfriend Devon (Josh Segarra), leaving Craig increasingly adrift. One evening, while spending time with their son Steven (Jack Dylan Grazer), Craig receives a misdelivered package and walks it over to its intended recipient: Austin Carmichael (Paul Rudd), a quirky local meteorologist...
- Actors:
- Tim Robinson, Paul Rudd, Kate Mara, Jack Grazer, Rick Worthy, Whitmer Thomas, Daniel London, Eric Rahill, Jacob Ming-Trent, Billy Bryk, Meredith Holcomb, Ari Dalbert, Josh Segarra, Raphael Sbarge, Omar Torres, Jason Veasey, Jon Glaser, Carmen Christopher, Mike J Mills, Alex Webb
- Directors:
- Andrew DeYoung
- Producers:
- Johnny Holland, J.D. Lifshitz, Raphael Margules, Nick Weidenfeld
- Writers:
- Andrew DeYoung
- Genres:
- Comedy
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Clingy, Cringey, and Kind of Brilliant - Friendship review by griggs
There aren’t many films that make me laugh out loud in a cinema—Friendship did. Loudly. It’s a goofy, surreal spin on the terror of adult socialising, seen through the eyes of a needy, borderline-psychopathic energy vampire desperately trying to wedge himself into another man’s friend group. Tim Robinson plays the kind of character that might split the room—somewhere between Larry David in Curb and Steve Carell in The Office—but with a difference: he’s not smug, just catastrophically earnest. He doesn’t want to be right, he just wants to belong… even if it means steamrolling every boundary in sight.
His long-suffering wife deserves hazard pay, trapped in a marriage with a man who treats social interaction like a hostage negotiation. The humour leans uncomfortably close to tragedy, but always pulls back just before it hits despair. There’s something admirably loose about the whole thing—not everything sticks, but that feels part of the charm.
It’s deranged, strangely sweet, and very funny. Not quite glued down, but it doesn’t need to be.