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.
Writing
Baumbach's dialogue is weaponized insecurity with literary references
Acting
Chris Eigeman's dry delivery creates an entire personality archetype
Direction
Static compositions that trap characters in their own inertia
Director
Noah Baumbach
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Baumbach wrote this at 25 fresh out of college, making it essentially autobiographical therapy on film.
This launched the 'mumblecore' aesthetic a decade early and made Parker Posey the patron saint of aimless twenty-somethings.
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