
Drinking Buddies
★★★☆☆



Directed by
Joe Swanberg
Produced by Joe Swanberg, Paul Bernon, Andrea Roa, Sam Slater, and Alicia Van Couvering
Written by Joe Swanberg
With: Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick, Ron Livingston, Ti West, Jason Sudeikis, Mike Brune, Frank V. Ross, Michael Gaertner, Kristin Davis, Jim Cibak, Alicia Van Couvering, Joe Swanberg, and Michael Zeller
Editing: Joe Swanberg
Runtime: 90 min
Release Date: 01 November 2013
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Color
Produced by Joe Swanberg, Paul Bernon, Andrea Roa, Sam Slater, and Alicia Van Couvering
Written by Joe Swanberg
With: Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick, Ron Livingston, Ti West, Jason Sudeikis, Mike Brune, Frank V. Ross, Michael Gaertner, Kristin Davis, Jim Cibak, Alicia Van Couvering, Joe Swanberg, and Michael Zeller
Runtime:
90 min
Release Date: 01 November 2013
Color/Aspect: Color / 2.35 : 1
Cinematography:
Ben RichardsonRelease Date: 01 November 2013
Color/Aspect: Color / 2.35 : 1
Editing: Joe Swanberg
Runtime: 90 min
Release Date: 01 November 2013
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Color

Drinking Buddies
★★★☆☆


Drinking Buddies, another one of those improvised movies that I always approach with extreme trepidation, explores all the complexities that arise when platonic friends are attracted to each other. Like Lynn Shelton’s surprisingly effective 2011 film Your Sister's Sister, this is a film in which the director came up with an outline and allowed the actors to find the tone, the costumes, the dialogue and pretty much everything else. The results of movies like this are usually a disastrous and often pretentious mess, but in this case writer/director Joe Swanberg and his cast capture a very specific set of feelings that almost everyone experiences at some point in life. As with Your Sister's Sister, there are some moments that feel contrived, but the truth of the characters' behavior and the palpable feelings they express in words, looks and physical mannerisms feel one hundred percent accurate.
Directed by
Joe Swanberg
Produced by Joe Swanberg, Paul Bernon, Andrea Roa, Sam Slater, and Alicia Van Couvering
Written by Joe Swanberg
With: Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick, Ron Livingston, Ti West, Jason Sudeikis, Mike Brune, Frank V. Ross, Michael Gaertner, Kristin Davis, Jim Cibak, Alicia Van Couvering, Joe Swanberg, and Michael Zeller
Editing: Joe Swanberg
Runtime: 90 min
Release Date: 01 November 2013
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Color
Produced by Joe Swanberg, Paul Bernon, Andrea Roa, Sam Slater, and Alicia Van Couvering
Written by Joe Swanberg
With: Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick, Ron Livingston, Ti West, Jason Sudeikis, Mike Brune, Frank V. Ross, Michael Gaertner, Kristin Davis, Jim Cibak, Alicia Van Couvering, Joe Swanberg, and Michael Zeller
Runtime:
90 min
Release Date: 01 November 2013
Color/Aspect: Color / 2.35 : 1
Cinematography:
Ben RichardsonRelease Date: 01 November 2013
Color/Aspect: Color / 2.35 : 1
Editing: Joe Swanberg
Runtime: 90 min
Release Date: 01 November 2013
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Color
How I Rate Films
★★★★★
One of the 5000 greatest films. Usually only awarded after repeat viewings, so there are more five-star films from decades past than recent years.
★★★★☆
An excellent film. Possibly one of the 5000 and certainly worthy of repeated viewing.
★★★☆☆
A good film well worth seeing. Films listed at the top of this ranking could end up one of the 5000.
★★☆☆☆
A disappointment, an interesting failure, or just a bad movie. Still, maybe worth seeing: I often enjoy the top two-star films in a given list more than the bottom three-star films.
★☆☆☆☆
A bad, rant-worthy film. Should be avoided regardless of hype or talent involved.
☆☆☆☆☆
One of the worst films.
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