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6.6/10 • 97

2025-05-091h 40m

Comedy

Men shouldn't have friends.

Suburban dad Craig falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor Austin, as Craig’s attempts to make an adult male friend threaten to ruin both of their lives.

Directors
Andrew DeYoung
Writters
Andrew DeYoung
Editors
Andrew DeYoung, Sophie Corra

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  1. Tim Robinson

    Tim Robinson

    Craig

  2. Kate Mara

    Kate Mara

    Tami

  3. Jack Dylan Grazer

    Jack Dylan Grazer

    Steven

  4. Paul Rudd

    Paul Rudd

    Austin

  5. Rick Worthy

    Rick Worthy

    Mr. Mendoza

  6. Whitmer Thomas

    Whitmer Thomas

    Ian

  7. Daniel London

    Daniel London

    Stan

  8. Eric Rahill

    Eric Rahill

    Mike

  9. Jacob Ming-Trent

    Jacob Ming-Trent

    Nathan

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CinemaSerf

Jul 23, 2025

6/10

“Tami” (Kate Mara) is recovering from cancer, needs a bigger van for her flourishing florist business, kisses her teenage son on the lips, and is married to advertising executive “Craig” (Tim Robinson). He is a fastidious gent, usually clad in beige, who keeps himself to himself and is largely derided by his workmates as being a bit of a drip. They are looking to move house when they get a parcel for an address nearby. “Craig” is an helpful sort of fella and so takes it round to “Austin” (Paul Rudd). He is a local television weatherman who invites his new neighbour for a drink that evening. The two hit it off fairly swiftly, and next thing they are crawling around the sewers under City Hall having an adventure! For a few days they are as thick as thieves, then one evening doesn’t go so well for “Craig” when “Austin” has friends over and next thing that burgeoning rapport isn’t what it was. Meantime, “Tami” is spending a little more time with trainer “Devon” and their son “Stevie” has got himself a sleepover partner. Increasingly adrift, “Craig” tries to reconstruct his recent adventure with his wife, but that doesn’t go remotely to plan and merely leaves this man even more alone, ridiculed, exposed and with a wife who appears to have abandoned him. What’s the point of all of this? Well that’s a good question. Robinson excels here as an almost cartoon character epitomising just about everything inept that makes you cringe. Is that funny or is it uncomfortable or both? Well I just found it the latter, and as this story of family rather cynically unravels before us I found his characterisation quirky to start with but increasingly annoying, Chaplin-esque even, and I started not to care what happened to any of them. Is she having an affair? Does she want to? Is she just chronically unfulfilled with her lumbering husband? And then there’s “Austin”. Is he just a selfish and nasty piece of work or has he offered the hand of friendship to someone then hastily decided it was a mistake and time for the drawbridge to come up? It is the kind of film that has you shifting in your seat, and that’s fine, providing that you can have some degree of empathy with someone on screen. I just didn’t, and as the conclusion loomed I just felt indifferent to them, their scenario and to those irritating weather “personalities” that American television channels seem obsessed with, but that the rest of the world has never employed. Maybe I just wasn’t in the mood, and there were people adjacent in the cinema laughing out loud, but for me it just didn’t work and showed a side of human behaviour you’d laugh at rather than with, and I didn’t care for that either.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$2,000,000.00
Revenue
$15,992,568.00
Keywords
husband wife relationshipobsessiondark comedymale friendshipdrug tripneighborbromancequicksandmissing persontv news anchorperceptioncomplexcringe comedyabsurd