Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) - Child performances stand out in July's fine debut

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+ Best Big Hit Movie of the Year + Best Dramedy of the Year

A number of characters are amassed around in a circle around praise by critic Roger Ebert on a coat of pink on this poster for Miranda July's Me and You and Everyone We Know

A woman artist, who has a day job rolling wheelchair-bound elders around, meets an exciting man, who works in a shoe store and is separated from the mother of his children.

Me and You and Everyone We Know is written and directed by debuting Miranda July (Kajillionaire (2020)). The film is actually just as much about the exciting man's two sons, and a couple of teenage girls in the neighborhood, as it is about the two adults that meet.
July's debut is the definition of a quirky, offbeat little indie debut - in this case thankfully with a large personal investment.
The tinily plotted tale is a different kind of film experience, which instead lives on its director's artistic eye for details and symbolism, - as well as some laughter-inducing lines and chains of events.
July, who plays the lead artist herself, and the two boys, portrayed by Miles Thompson (Thirteen Conversations about One Thing (2001)) and Brandon Ratcliff (Blood Shed (2013)), are best in the cast; the latter two are outstandingly natural in the two parts that among other themes revolve around the sexuality of children. July's invention in this respect, particularly for the younger of the boys, will undoubtedly inspire conversations.  John Hawkes' (Contagion (2011)) salesman character, a man who isn't ideally suited for fatherhood, and who rambles on in overly honest fashion at his job, is a bit galling.
July arrives well with this crackerjack of a movie.

 

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Watch a trailer for the film here

Cost: Estimated 2 mil. $
Box office: 8 mil. $
= Big hit (returned 4 times its cost)
[Me and You and Everyone We Know premiered in January (Sundance Film Festival) and runs 91 minutes. Shooting took place in Los Angeles, California from July - August 2004. The film opened #50 to a 30k $ first weekend in 1 theater in North America, where it peaked at #18 and in 160 theaters (different weeks), grossing 3.8 mil. $ (47.5 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were the UK with 1 mil. $ (12.5 %) and France with 716k $ (9 %). The film won 4 awards in Cannes, was nominated for 2 Independent Spirit awards and won a prize in Sundance, among other honors. Roger Ebert gave it a 4/4 star review, translating to two notches higher than this one. July returned with The Future (2011) as a filmmaker as well as as an actress. Hawkes returned in The Amateurs (2005). Me and You and Everyone We Know is certified fresh at 82 % with a 7.38/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of Me and You and Everyone We Know?

Youth in Revolt (2009) - Arteta's charming, funny indie of escaping virginity

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Michael Cera and his double nearly block out female co-star Portia Doubleday on this awkward poster for Miguel Arteta's Youth in Revolt

Teenager Nick Twisp's parents are divorced and ridiculous, and he no longer wants to live as a virgin. On a spontaneous trailer park holiday, he meets the girl who he thinks may be the great love of his life. To secure her, he tries a bit of everything.

The party seems to never end with this charming youth sex/romance dramedy. It is ripe with writers' inspiration, based on C.D. Payne's (Invisibly Yours (2010)) epistolary novel Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp (1993) and written by Gustin Nash (Charlie Bartlett (2007)). The third act seems a bit rushed but otherwise this is a knockout work.
The film has some great supporting roles and funny, quotable lines, an unpredictable plot and sweet sequences that use animation and puppets. Michael Cera's (Arrested Development (2003-18)) knack for irony, deadpan delivery and physical comedy is explored at length in this gem.
Youth in Revolt is directed by great Puerto Rican filmmaker Miguel Artetea (Beatriz at Dinner (2017)).

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Watch a trailer for the film here

Cost: 18 mil. $
Box office: 19.6 mil. $
= Huge flop
[Youth in Revolt premiered 11 September (Deauville American Film Festival, France) and runs 89 minutes. It was shot on location in Michigan and Louisiana from July - September 2008. The film opened and peaked at #9 to a 6.9 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it grossed 15.2 mil. $ (77.6 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were the UK with 2.9 mil. $ (14.8 %) and France with 0.4 mil. $ (2 %). Roger Ebert gave the film a 3/4 star review, translating to a notch harder than this review. It won a National Board of Review Top Independent Film award. Youth in Revolt is fresh at 65 % with a 6.3/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of Youth in Revolt?

Eagle vs Shark (2007) - Waititi's witty if flawed debut

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A sort of confusing (who are the people superimposed onto the sky?) but also fresh and curiosity-sparking poster for Taika Waititi's Eagle vs Shark

A fast food worker, who is in love with an electronics salesman, impresses him with her skills in a video game, and soon thereafter love is in the air between the two.

Eagle vs Shark, written by co-writer-lead actress Loren Taylor (The Strip (2002-03)) and feature-debuting co-writer-director Taika Waititi (Boy (2010)), is a witty indie movie. It relishes and cultivates the quirks of its strange protagonists (and several side characters.) The quirky weirdness seems a bit studied, and the film lacks a straightforwardness that makes its dramatic side seem stuck in a strange unreality.
There is still enough to laugh over, or to simply find amusing, in Eagle vs Shark, so that this visit to a very awkward version of New Zealand is still worth taking.

Watch the opening scene of the film here

Cost: 1.35 mil. $
Box office: In excess of 1.2 mil. $
= Some uncertainty (but looks like a huge flop)
[Eagle vs Shark premiered in January (Sundance) and runs 88 minutes. The script was workshopped at the Sundance writers' and directors' labs in June 2005. Shooting took place in New Zealand, including in Wellington, in 25 days from October - November 2005. The film opened #53 to a 20k $ first weekend in 3 theaters in North America, where it peaked at #46 and in 20 theaters (different weeks) and grossed 221k $ (18.4 % of the total gross). This was the film's 3rd biggest market. The 2 biggest were its native New Zealand with 733k $ (61 %) and the UK with 299k $ (24.9 %). It was shown at festivals in more countries than are accounted for on Box Office Mojo, but doesn't seem to have made any money on this. The film was screened and nominated for the main prize in Sundance and won one out of 3 nominations at the New Zealand Film and TV Awards. Waititi has continued to grow as a filmmaker, but is now heading Thor: Ragnarok (2017), changing pace to the mega-budgeted tentpole movie business. Eagle vs Shark is rotten at 54 % with a 5.6 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of Eagle vs Shark?

The Skeleton Twins (2014) - Wiig and Hader deliver in indie gem

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SNL regulars Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig are to sell Craig Johnson's The Skeleton Twins on its poster

 

A man, who goes through a failed suicide attempt, subsequently moves temporarily into the home of his sister, whom he hasn't seen in a decade, and her husband. As it turns out, both twin siblings have deep-rooted problems in their lives.

Bill Hader (The BFG (2016)) and Kristen Wiig (Ghostbusters (2016)) are credible as twins and are both really funny and well-functioning dramatically in this little indie pearl from co-writer-director Craig Johnson (True Adolescents (2009)).

As The Skeleton Twins unfolds, I was waiting, somewhere in the back of my mind, for it to give in and collapse as a film, because it appears to be a bit of a fragile house of cards, but this never happens. Luke Wilson (Henry Poole Is Here (2008)) and Ty Burrell (In Good Company (2004)) do well in supporting parts. SPOILER It is a shame for the stars, the film and us as audiences that the plot anchor of the marriage in it is cut short so rapidly, because it is a good enough film that I would have sat for a longer final section about its crisis and the solution to it.

The Skeleton Twins is co-written with Mark Heyman (Black Swan (2010)).

Watch a trailer and a short interview with Hader and Wiig here

Cost. Reportedly 1 mil. $

Box office: 5.7 mil. $

= Huge hit

[The Skeleton Twins premiered January 19 (Sundance) and runs 93 minutes. Filming lasted 22 days in New York in November 2012. The film opened #25 with a 380k $ first weekend in 15 theaters, widening to 461 theaters and a top position at #11 with a 1.2 mil. $ weekend 3 in North America, where it grossed 5.2 mil. $ (91.2 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets (of 7 foreign markets) were Australia with 279k $ (4.9 %) and the UK with 63k $ (1.1 %). The film won the screenwriting award at Sundance and was included as one of the year's 10 best independent films by National Board of Review. The Skeleton Twins is certified fresh at 86 % with a 7 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of The Skeleton Twins?

Ruby Sparks (2012) - Dayton & Farris' high concept romcom failure

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An effective, well-made poster for Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Farris' Ruby Sparks

 

A successful, lonely writer with writer's block completes an assignment for his shrink and in doing so creates the fictional female character of his  dreams in reality!

Ruby Sparks has its moderately funny patches, but this basically high-concept romcom has perched itself wrong; on the low-budget-quirky-indie chair, - replete with discordant, foreign language music and an eccentric parent couple, - instead of a higher chair, the mainstream approach. It is also problematic that the protagonist's writing issues take up as much space in the film as they do. It is fundamentally hard to get genuinely interested in this character, the central rock of Ruby Sparks, and the affluent Los Angeles milieu he resides in. To make matters worse, the film isn't romantic, because the titular character isn't a real person in the film but only a figment of the writer's imagination.

Paul Dano (L.I.E. (2001)) attempts to pull up the funny factor but spends the majority of the film looking like an owl. Zoe Kazan (Meek's Cutoff (2010)), who also wrote the film, her first and only movie writing job to date, is sweet enough as Ruby Sparks, but the film is regrettably failed. It is directed by great Californian directors and marrieds Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Farris (Little Miss Sunshine (2006)).

Watch a trailer for the film here

Cost: Estimated 8 mil. $

Box office: 9.1 mil. $

= Big flop

[Ruby Sparks was released July 25 and runs 104 minutes. Filming took place in LA and Big Sur, California from July - August 2011. The film opened #28 to a 140k $ opening weekend in 13 theaters, expanding to 261 and #17, grossing 2.5 mil. $ (27.5 % of the total gross) in North America. Its 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were Australia with 1.6 mil. $ (17.6 %) and the UK with 1.2 mil. $ (13.2 %). Ruby Sparks is certified fresh at 79 % with a 7.1 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of Ruby Sparks?

Red Flag (2012) or, Alex on Tour

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+ Best Independent Movie of the Year

+ Worst Distribution of the Year

 

Writer-co-producer-director-star Alex Karpovksy (in the middle) looks at us with a hopeless glare on the poster for his Red Flag

 

Alex and Rachel have broken up after several years together. So now Alex is left to himself as he is heading out on his tour with his documentary Woodpecker. - Until an old friend (Onus Turkel (Summer of Blood (2014))) responds to his open invitation and comes to join him.

Red Flag is a funny indie-dramedy road movie about a couple of slobs on tour together. The humor is like a mix of Seinfeld, Woody Allen and Klown: Wry, dry and cynical. Several lines and situations in the film are really funny. - SPOILER Particularly the specifics concerning Alex's documentary and his friend's children's book.

Red Flag features some fairly off-putting characters, - but they are well-played and the film is small but hilarious. It is written, co-produced and directed by Alex Karpovsky (Rubberneck (2012)), who stars as Alex, the protagonist who is based on himself.

 

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Karpovsky is interviewed about the film at the LA Film Festival premiere here

Cost: Unknown

Box office: 2k $ (North America)

= Unknown (but must be considered a flop)

[Red Flag premiered June 15 (Los Angeles Film Festival) and runs 85 minutes. There are several fascinating details about its production: First of all the Woodpecker tour is not fictional, but actual: Red Flag came about as a project to complete while Karpovsky agreed to go on a tour with his second film, the actual documentary Woodpecker. Reportedly with a crew of just one cameraman, the film came about with the three actors and everyone else being random people involved on location, with a 30-page outline, in 12 days. Unfortunately the film's release has been even smaller than its production: Only released in 1 theater in North America, where it grossed 2k $ in the few days it was screened. Its only other market was a film festival in Poland, a fact which is hard not to consider perfectly in line with the general, self-deprecating humor of the film. Red Flag is fresh at 78 % with a 6.8 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of Red Flag?

Obvious Child (2014) - Slate and Robespierre's laugh-out-loud indie comedy

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+ Best Independent Movie of the Year

Lead Jenny Slate in front of a deliciously pink background on this poster for Gillian Robespierre's Obvious Child

Our heroine is a stand-up comedian at a local Brooklyn club, who also works in a bookstore, which is closing, just as her boyfriend has also dumped her. So she sleeps with a handsome stranger ...

Obvious Child is the feature debut for writer-director Gillian Robespierre, based on her own same-titled 2009 short. It's fueled by an incredibly funny script, which the hysterically funny Jenny Slate (The Lorax (2012)), a comical natural talent, breathes wonderful life into. There's also several fine supporting performances: From Richard Kind (Inside Out (2015)) as her father, Polly Draper (Our Idiot Brother (2011) as her mother, Gabe Liedman (Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2015), TV-series) as her gay friend, Gaby Hoffmann (Wild (2014)) as her girlfriend and Jake Lacy (Carol (2015)) as her new romance, who is almost unearthly sweet.
SPOILER You might feel ambiguous about seeing these two nice people, a great, blossoming couple, decide to go get an abortion. - But Obvious Child still somehow remains among the warmest, sweetest and certainly funniest romcoms in a long while. - Don't cheat yourself of this experience!
Interesting fact: Robespierre devised the film (and the short it's based on) on her frustration about the "misrepresentation of women on screen when it came to unplanned pregnancy", citing films such as Juno (2007), Knocked Up (2007) and Waitress (2007) as her target.

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Watch the trailer for the film here

Cost: Unknown
Box office: 3.3 mil. $
= Uncertainty
[Obvious Child was undoubtedly made on a small budget, perhaps around 1 mil. $, in which case it should be counted as a box office success. But without knowing for sure, we can't call it. It was in North American release for 18 weeks, topping at 196 screens, grossing 3.1 mil. $ (93.9 % of the total gross). It was released in only two other markets, the UK (which, with 197k $, made up nearly all the rest of the gross) and New Zealand. Obvious Child is certified fresh at 89 % with a 7.3 critical average on Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of Obvious Child?

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) - Andrews' and Gomez-Rejon's quirky and sincere youth dramedy

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+ Best Youth Movie of the Year

The young stars of Alfonso Gomez-Rejon's Me and Earl and the Dying Girl; Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler and Olivia Cooke adorn the poster

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is an adaptation of Jesse Andrews' 2012 debut novel, which he adapted himself, with Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (American Horror Story (2011-14)) directing it as his second feature.

Greg is a senior high school student, whose mother pressures him into spending time with a girl he knows, who is diagnosed with leukemia. Greg and his friend Earl make short films together and end up having a profound relation to the girl, as she struggles with her illness.

The film tells its story in a quirky, possibly a little over-narrated way, but as the aim is to get us into Greg's shoes, I think it accomplishes this well. Andrews and Gomez-Rejon embrace Greg and Earl's film-nerding activities, which are pretty funny, if you know some or all of the titles they are remaking. Most of this will be lost on people with little or no film history knowledge, however.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is earnest, very amusing and boasts some creatively stimulating stop-motion sequences made by Edward Bursch and Nathan O. Marsh. By its third act, the film luckily steps somewhat out of its own irony-infused comfort zone, as the story tightens. The conclusion breaks your heart, even if you are mostly 'just' pleasantly amused with the first two acts of the film.

Connie Britton and Nick Offerman in Alfonso Gomez-Rejon's Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

The movie falls in the vein of Stephen Chbosky's masterpiece The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), without achieving that film's complete success. It also bears resemblance to the great Juno (2007), although the themes are switched around from giving birth to death.
RJ Cyler (War Machine (2016)), Olivia Cooke (Ouija (2014)) and Thomas Mann (Beautiful Creatures (2013)) give fine performances as Earl, Rachel and Greg, and Mann makes some stellar Werner Herzog impressions that are easily the film's funniest moments, (at least for Herzog fans.) Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation (2009-15)) is dryly funny as Greg's father, but it is Connie Britton (Spin City (1996-00)) and Molly Shannon (Scary Movie 5 (2013)) as the two important moms in the film that really make an impact, and both give great, affecting performances.
Finally, Me and Earl makes perfect use of Brian Eno music, especially his The Big Ship (1975), SPOILER which plays during Greg's Stan Brakhage-inspired short film to Rachel in the end.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is a film that loves film, loves life, - and which you will love.

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The book cover for the movie re-print of Jesse Andrews' novel

Watch the trailer for the movie here

Cost: 8 mil. $
Box office: 8.4 mil. $ and counting
= Uncertainty
[Andrews' script came to be on the 2012 Blacklist and came to the attention of Gomez-Rejon, who used to be personal assistant and second unit director for Alejandro González Iñárritu, Martin Scorsese and Nora Ephron. The movie was shot in four weeks in June-July 2014 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, among other places in Andrews' family home, which is Greg's home in the film. The film debuted at Sundance to a standing ovation, winning both the US Grand Prix: Dramatic and the Audience Award and was picked up for distribution in a bidding war by Fox Searchlight for a whopping 12 mil. $. Despite great reviews, the film failed to set the box office on fire in a slowly growing release strategy: The film has grossed 6.7 mil. $ (79.8 % of the total gross) in North America, not impressive, especially when compared to the success of similarly themed The Fault in Our Stars (2014), which grossed 307.2 mil. $ on a 12 mil. $ budget! Me and Earl's 2nd and 3rd biggest markets are the UK (1.1 mil. $/13 %) and Australia (0.3 mil. $/3.6 %). It looks like it will end up a huge flop commercially. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is certified fresh at 81% with a critical rating of 7.6 on Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl?

Weeds - season 1 (2005) - Kohan's 'suburbia askew' show

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The main characters (except the two sons of the protagonist) under a big marijuana cloud for Jenji Kohan's Weeds

Weeds is the long-running (8 seasons) dark satire/dramedy TV-series that broke new grounds for its broadcaster Showtime and showrunner Jenji Kohan (Orange Is the New Black (2013-15), executive producer). It presents a contemporary look at the not-so neat and clean life in an American suburb:

Nancy Botwin (Emmy-winning (2006) Mary-Louise Parker (RED (2010)) is the recently widowed mother of two boys. To sustain their high living expenses, she deals weed in the neighborhood. She has a good-for-nothing brother Andy (Justin Kirk (Modern Family (2010-13)) who comes to live with them, a good friend Celia (Elizabeth Perkins (Fierce People (2005)) who obsesses about her young daughter and contracts cancer, a regular slacker customer Doug (Kevin Nealon (Blended (2014)) who works at her son's school, and her rough-mouthed supplier Heylia (Tonye Patano (The Savages (2007)), whose handsome cousin Conrad (Romany Malco (The 40 Year-Old Virgin (2005)) doesn't have much luck getting in contact with Nancy. Her two sons are Shane (Alexander Gould (Finding Nemo (2003), voice), a boy who acts out, and Silas (Hunter Parrish (Still Alice (2014)), a teenager who acts out.

The show establishes its brand of very busy raunch-based comedy, which mixes the wholesome suburbia image with some taboo topics (homosexuality, death, sorrow, drugs, violence, bullying etc.) to elicit effect. The style sometimes comes to feel superficial, as it nearly permeates every important aspect of the character's lives. The show pushes its indie and upbeat feel beyond my patience at times. It works hard to include lots of heavy topics without ever becoming heavy, which some may find commendable, while it at times alienated me.
Kohan pushes the liberal-minded raunch at every turn, and it becomes tiring and overbearing. Especially Nancy's brother-character Andy is an often disgusting, despicable character, often with no real purpose action-wise on the show, who gets so much room that he nullifies quite a lot of enjoyment in the show. On the other hand, Maulik Pancholy (30 Rock (2006-13)) as Nancy's young helper Sanjay is very funny and counter-weighs him some.
While Silas dates a mute girl and experiments with drugs, Nancy opens a bakery to front for her real activities, (the particulars surrounding opening such a business totally escape our (and apparently, incredibly, also Nancy's) attention. Finally, she gets talked into ending this business in favor of a more ambitious drug collective with some friends. Meanwhile, she has started, mysteriously, dating the boring father of one of Shane's karate opponents, Peter, who, in the season's 'cliffhanger' ending, turns out to be a DEA agent.
Guest stars include Jane Lynch (Glee (2009-15)), Lorna Raver (Drag Me to Hell (2009)) and Allison Janney (Bad Words (2013)). The show has a cute, poignant opening song (Little Boxes by Malvina Reynolds) to fit its neat suburbia opening sequence.
The first season opens up a universe that seems fairly promising and original, but it also leaves plenty of room for future improvements.

Best episodes:

Episode 1: You Can't Miss the Bear
Written by Kohan; directed by Brian Dannelly (Struck by Lightning (2012))
Sets up the environment, style and characters.

Episode 2: Free Goat
Written by Kohan; directed by Dannelly
With Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Salvation (2014)) as the late father. Every character has their problems.

Watch the season one trailer here 

Budget: Unknown
Box office: None
= Uncertainty
[But, even without sales figures, Weeds definitely has been a profitable product for its cast, crew and production and broadcasting companies, - otherwise it simply wouldn't have lasted as long as it did!]

What do you think of Weeds' first season?
And the following ones, if you've seen them?

Frances Ha (2012) or, Growing Older Ain't Easy

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+ Best New York Movie of the Year
+ Best Poster of the Year

The chic, lovely poster for Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha

Frances lives in New York with her 'clone'-friend Sophie, but they might not really be all that similar after all. And there's quite a few other things as well that are not really coming together for Frances lately.

 

Mickey Sumner and Greta Gerwig in Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha

Greta Gerwig (Greenberg (2010)) really possesses her title character here, - whom she co-wrote with Noah Baumbach, - and does so with a delightful authenticity. The smart lines of the film amuse, - although I'm not charmed by the glib NY-manners. Still, I found myself relating to situation upon situation in the life of Frances.
The film has some lovely montages, an original visual expression, - molded in B/W to brush against nouvelle vague and Woody Allen films, - nice music choices, - and Frances at one point delivers an extremely fine, poignant explanation of love.
Her dancing around the streets and intersections of New York are certain to make the film a cult hit that will live on. Beautiful, chic and melancholic, Frances Ha was one of the best movies of 2012.
Co-writer/director Baumbach (Kicking and Screaming (1995)) made his probably best film yet with The Squid and the Whale (2005), but Frances Ha seems perhaps just as good. Baumbach has several projects in the making; a documentary, an 'untitled public school project' with Gerwig, and a dramedy with Ben Stiller and lots of other good names involved titled While We're Young (2015). Sounding very good... 

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Watch the fine trailer here

Budget: Unknown
Box office: 8.3 mil. $
= Unknown

How did you like Frances Ha?
What do you think of Noah Baumbach and his movies?