Un gruppo di ragazzi frequenta il loro college per mesi dopo la laurea, continuando una vita molto simile a quella precedente la laurea.Un gruppo di ragazzi frequenta il loro college per mesi dopo la laurea, continuando una vita molto simile a quella precedente la laurea.Un gruppo di ragazzi frequenta il loro college per mesi dopo la laurea, continuando una vita molto simile a quella precedente la laurea.
- Premi
- 2 candidature
- Pete
- (as Sam Gould)
- Friedrich
- (as Chris Reed)
- Bouncer
- (as David Deluise)
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- QuizThe film was almost accepted in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, but Noah Baumbach refused to cut 15 minutes as they requested, and the film was ultimately rejected.
- BlooperWhen Grover says "Shit, I wish I hadn't seen that" at the airport, his mark is clearly visible on the floor when he walks away.
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Max: I'm too nostalgic. I'll admit it.
Skippy: We graduated four months ago. What can you possibly be nostalgic for?
Max: I'm nostalgic for conversations I had yesterday. I've begun reminiscing events before they even occur. I'm reminiscing this right now. I can't go to the bar because I've already looked back on it in my memory... and I didn't have a good time.
- Colonne sonoreCecilia Ann
Written by Frosty Horton and Steve Hoffman
Performed by Pixies
Courtesy of 4AD/Elektra Entertainment
By arrangement with Warner Special Products
It was fortunate that in 1995, there were producers out there who believed a movie about depressed upper-middle class white boys had commercial potential, because those producers launched the career of Noah Baumbach, who would go on to make superior films in the next decade. As in his later films, Baumbach seems to take pity on pretentious and tremendously insecure characters while simultaneously taking delight in exposing their weaknesses to the world. But in "Kicking and Screaming," unlike, say, "The Squid and the Whale," Baumbach seems to identify just a little too closely with his young characters and seems to believe that they are less obnoxious than they are.
"Kicking and Screaming"'s greatest strength and weakness is how well it captures an aspect of growing up not often captured on film: the resistance to change. Many films deal with characters who gradually change as they come of age, but "Kicking and Screaming" deals with characters who desire on some level to move on past their current selves but are hesitant to do anything about that desire. This also hurts the film, however, since very little changes from beginning to end, and when characters do change at all, they change less than they (or the film) believe.
The stagnation would not be a problem if the film were a comedy, but, while the film is full of quirky characters and occasionally funny jokes, it deals with the dullness and depression too honestly to really work as a comedy. When wealthy Max, perhaps the most stagnant of all the characters, puts a "broken glass" sign over a pile of shattered glass rather than cleaning it up, it is good for a laugh, but as the film goes on, we get to know Max well enough that it almost stops being funny.
"Kicking and Screaming" is certainly worth seeing for any fans of college-related movies and should probably be required viewing for anyone in their junior or senior years, since it could work as an effective warning against the perils that await graduates without plans. But the film, like its characters, has both too much self-consciousness and too little self-awareness to achieve the levels of comedic or dramatic potential that it hints at.
- NumeroOne
- 28 apr 2009
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- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 718.490 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 19.497 USD
- 8 ott 1995
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 718.490 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 36 minuti
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- 1.85 : 1