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