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Kicking and Screaming

1995

Noah Baumbach

Eric Stoltz, Josh Hamilton, Catherine Kellner, Olivia d'Abo ...

6.1

661

Comedy. Drama A group of recent college graduates hover around campus unable to cut the umbilical cord of academic life. 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 ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Soulful and sustaining (...) There's plenty of wit on the surface, but the pain of paralysis comes through loud and clear. Check this one out."
		Greg Evans Variety	"It is mildly amusing and occasionally exasperating -- a self-analysis of the self-analysis of a self-analytical generation."
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Scenes move from hurt to resigned laughter and ring poignantly true. The heroically unfashionable result is a minor but distinct pleasure."
		Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times	"Baumbach surely does make these characters, all of whom are impeccably acted, absolutely real, but at 25 he may be too close to the material to achieve the detachment from which irony and meaning flow."
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"I enjoyed the movie, perhaps because I could identify with the characters (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Keith Phipps AV Club	"While Baumbach makes the lifestyle of his charming losers look appealing, he never quite makes it seductive"
		Janet Maslin The New York Times	"[It] benefits from an appealing cast and Mr. Baumbach's keen recollection of what it's like to be smart, promising and temporarily adrift"

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