Kicking and Screaming (1995)
Following graduation, a handful of college students do nothing and talk about it wittily. (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Noah Baumbach
Written By: Noah Baumbach, Oliver Berkman
Starring: Elliott Gould, Parker Posey, Eric Stoltz, Olivia d'Abo, Josh Hamilton, Cara Buono, Chris Eigeman, Dean Cameron, Perrey Reeves, Carlos Jacott, Jason Wiles, Marissa Ribisi
Genres: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
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1. Criterion Collection (public: moderated by caffe - 163 stars)
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3. Directorial debut (public: moderated by djross - 16 stars)
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5. Indiewood (private: cbennett - 1 star)
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8. 1995: Year in Review (private: polanski28)
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Spunkie | 81 95% |
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This movie is going nowhere...if nothing beautifully. Last year there was a big fuzz around Baumbach being the next Wes Anderson. K&S is better, it exhibits a literary quality that is devoid of forced dramatizations.
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CinematicESP | 85 66% |
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Eerily poignant at this stage of my life. It is clearly a "first film," but that shouldn't distract you. The characters are annoyingly familiar and humorous. A great debut for Mr. Baumbach.
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jstry | 48 26% |
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Not sure how everyone seems to love this?? I didn't enjoy it at all. I think I went to college with the characters in this movie and I hated them. I "get" the whole idea of being caught in this weird place between college and the real world and feeling like you need to "be" something, but not quite wanting to take that next step either. I just wish the characters weren't so annoying and quirky. Maybe it's just really dated 15 years later, but I was just waiting for this one to end.
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hellsditch | 67 17% |
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I spent the majority of this one wishing that these characters would shut the 'eff up and get on with it. Yes yes yes, "cool" references and ironic posturing...I get it, very good. Honestly, sometimes I can handle spending some cinematic time with a bunch of smug quipsters, but with this particular group of actors? Outside of Stoltz, Posey and Jacott? No thank you. Redeemed slightly by a few quality scenes toward the end, particularly the one where they realize that they're all priggish a-holes.
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sidehacker | 87 92% |
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This is pretty much my life right now. No, not hooking up with Parker Posey, but the post-graduation living with your parents, jerking off every day, being unemployed, and getting drunk as much as possible hits so close to home. Also, it's really funny. I'm not sure how I'm going to go back to Rohmer for my talky sad comedies when Chris Eigeman isn't there.
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JJ1986 | 60 54% |
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Baumbach's debut owes a lot to Whit Stillman.
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Pickpocket | 2 21% |
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A bunch of annoying douche bags can be found here!
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| 1 | theficionado | 75 74% |
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Its potshots at young intellectual pretension can be almost grotesque and easy beside, but this movie -- its free-floating malaise, its instantly generated nostalgia, the desperate need to do SOMETHING and the fear of the same -- hit close to home more often than I'd care to admit. Like how the movie measures time in a way no longer relevant to the characters' lives and that Max's final poor decision happens without comment or reproval.
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SirStuckey | 60 36% |
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The summary listed on this page is my favorite part of this movie.
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Bown | 79 52% |
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A nice blend of Richard Linklater and Wes Anderson, with just a dash of Kevin Smith at times. The dialogue was intellectual and witty, although people are naturally gonna hate on it because LOL HIPSTER even though it was 1995 and really people just apply that word to any film with humorously clever dialogue nowadays anyway where was I oh yeah. A little slight, and I wasn't a fan of the intertitles, but mostly a nice piece.
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| 1 | Eddie Yang | 98 96% |
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Amazing.
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Seethruskin | 6 95% |
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I had the same trajectory with Baumbach that I did with a band like the Ramones. Where when I first was getting into films, in my teen years, his movies floored me. I then got a bit older and tried to fight against these films as too simplistic and too popular with people I found insufferable. Now I just see him as the genius he is and relate to a lot in his films, despite an obvious difference in lifestyle.
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| 1 | Dilmuhill | 35 3% |
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It's a terrible review I know but it's a terrible film as well. As much as I kind of enjoyed it, you couldn't help but think 'How awful is this?' I've gotta admit that I couldn't stop laughing at the Bing Bong part, haha!
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Gnalkhere | 60 25% |
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Anything for Krelboyne Chris Eigeman. Extra points for him and those transcendental scenes that introduce Jane in each of her scenes. It's all those little things, and its depiction of Post-grad malaise, that stop this film from being baseless mumblecore. I found it by luck on Netflix, and expecting to not like it that much i ended up going a couple of steps above total indifference.
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Sheldrake | 90 97% |
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Rewatch. After watching this, my friends were all pretty offended because they'd thought I'd said that characters in this movie reminded me of them. When I explained, oh, no, I mean one of the characters in this movie reminds me of *me*, they were like, oh, yeah, totally.
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| Average Percentile 55.84% from 650 Ratings |  |