Fresh
First-time writer and director Noah Baumbach, 25, has a knack for acute observation and a spirited cast to animate every twisted nuance.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Kicking and Screaming
Anxiety loves company.
1995 · 1h 36m · R
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Noah Baumbach
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Kicking and Screaming
Overview
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.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
56%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Baumbach ... pushes his rigorous stance to the extent that you begin to wonder why you're bothering to watch the aimless lives of these four unfold.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
What's on screen is just a little too familiar to be worth lauding.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Fresh
In general, Baumbach's eye for generational detail is impeccable -- he knows what's on these kids' minds, and has found a language to express it.
Hal Hinson, Washington Post
Fresh
I like people who talk interestingly, who have read books, who appreciate verbal wit, who look dubiously at establishment assumptions.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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