Movie #362 "Kicking and Screaming" I sought out because 1) I've liked the other Noah Baumbach films like the recently watched "Greenburg" and 2) I was looking up the star of another movie I really liked "Outsourced," and he happens to be in this film, as well --- his name is Josh Hamilton, and I found him likable again in this movie, which isn't near as good as outsourced, though. However, Baumbach has an ease about him, a realism in his delivery, no matter what the environment, and this time it's a college campus. Don't cringe because it wasn't all drinking and drugs (like the infamous Dazed and Confused), but it actually dealt with intelligent people who were scared with the "what next?" question. I found it charming, oftentimes very funny, disrespectful, intuitive, and just plain entertaining. I gave it a 4 because, like all Baumbach films, it meanders a bit --- but other than that, I liked it a lot. Although it won't give many new college graduates the answers, it does offer the reasons why it is so scary to take the next step. The film lets all of us realize that it is those rites of passages that we all share --- and sometimes we need to be reminded of that. Oh, and P.S., the queen of indie films is in this --- the one and only Parker Posey. "End of Scene!"
You rated this movie: 4
Kicking and Screaming
(1995) R
In writer-director Noah Baumbach's take on postcollege angst, Grover (Josh Hamilton) declines to go with his girlfriend (Olivia d'Abo) to Prague and decides to move in with other recent college grads who can't quite break the gravitational pull of campus. Together, the friends wrestle with leaving the past behind as they reluctantly step into adulthood. But they're afraid they'll end up like bartender and professional student Chet (Eric Stoltz).
Genre: Indie Comedies, Indie Romance
This movie is: Quirky, Romantic, Understated, Witty
Format: DVD and streaming
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