Our Friend (Dakota Johnson, Casey Affleck, Jason Segel) review
Our Friend (Dakota Johnson, Casey Affleck, Jason Segel) review
January 24, 2021 by:
OUR FRIEND was previously reviewed at TIFF 2019 under the title THE FRIEND.
PLOT: A man (Jason Segel) moves in with his married best friends (Casey Affleck and Dakota Johnson) after the wife is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
REVIEW: A good tear-jerker is tough to pull off. For every
About Time or
Manchester by the Sea, there’s a half-dozen bad examples like
Life Itself, as the tendency in these movies is to get mawkish and overly sentimental. At the same time, you don’t want to be strident about situations that real people deal with every day, such as terminal illness, so it takes a good balance. Add
CST
Gravitas Ventures and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment present a film directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite and written by Brad Ingelsby, based on an Esquire article by Matthew Teague. Rated R (for language). Running time: 126 minutes. Opens Friday in theaters and on demand. The gentle, two-boxes-of-tissue tearjerker “Our Friend” is filled with scenes like the aforementioned, scenes that ring true for anyone who has had a serious illness or had a loved one with a serious illness, and that’s just about all of us, isn’t it? In Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s “Our Friend,” based on an Esquire magazine article written by Matthew Teague, we witness many a familiar scene from the cancer movie blueprint (see “Love Story,” “Terms of Endearment,” ”The Fault in Our Stars,” et al.), from the noble patient who just might beat this thing but then suffers a setback to the loving friends and family members who are sometimes overwhelmed by everything but feel
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