Deceptively marketed as a breezy romantic comedy, Drinking Buddies would be more aptly described as a movie about the complexities and compromises of relationships, the little things that are instrumental in making partnerships work. Credit writer-director Joe Swanberg for giving his strong cast the freedom to explore the weighty ideas his film’s simple set-up brings bubbling to the surface, like infidelity, loneliness and immaturity.
As Drinking Buddies opens, we think we know where it’s headed. The flighty, frivolous Kate (Olivia Wilde) works in a Chicago brewery with Luke (Jake Johnson), her emotional equal in every way. They get through the daily grind by immaturely drinking, flirting and reveling in the potent will-they-won’t-they chemistry that they’ve constructed almost effortlessly. The only problem: both are already in relationships. Luke is on the verge of marrying Jill (Anna Kendrick), his attentive and gracious girlfriend of six years, while Kate...
As Drinking Buddies opens, we think we know where it’s headed. The flighty, frivolous Kate (Olivia Wilde) works in a Chicago brewery with Luke (Jake Johnson), her emotional equal in every way. They get through the daily grind by immaturely drinking, flirting and reveling in the potent will-they-won’t-they chemistry that they’ve constructed almost effortlessly. The only problem: both are already in relationships. Luke is on the verge of marrying Jill (Anna Kendrick), his attentive and gracious girlfriend of six years, while Kate...
- 12/3/2013
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Unless you’re among that collection of people convinced their vote in American Idol actually makes a difference, the sad truth of television is that there’s a definite limit to how interactive a medium it truly is. For most of us, if we truly want to feel like we’re participating in a show or a movie, we have to play a drinking game, at which point the attention we pay to minutiae in whatever we’re watching spikes drastically (and then plummets again a few rounds later). In which case, maybe it’s perfect that Zane Lamprey came along and created Drinking Made Easy, a TV show dedicated to the appreciation of drinking that turns it into both an art and a basis for three guys goofing around and sampling the creative things people in the United States have done to liquor. It’s a drinking game, game show,...
- 11/19/2011
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
Zane Lamprey, the stand-out star of the defunct Mojo network's "Three Sheets" is bringing his irreverent style back to telly for the holidays. "Drinking Made Easy" is a new, exclusive HDNet Original 24 episode series hosted by Zane Lamprey with correspondents, drinking buddy Steve McKenna, and veteran stand-up comedian Marc Ryan. HDNet follows Lamprey as he completes a 53-city national comedy tour (also named "Drinking Made Easy") in which his entourage travels the Us in search of the local drinks and drinking customs that have contributed to the birth, growth and distinction of our great country. The premiere of "Drinking Made Easy" is Wednesday, Nov. 10th at 8:30 Pm Et The gang is in Florida and Zane...
- 11/6/2010
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
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