Suburban dad Craig falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor Austin, and his attempts to make an adult male friend threatens to ruin both of their lives.
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A private user reviewed Friendship (2025)
Friendship
âTamiâ (Kate Mara) is recovering from cancer, needs a bigger van for her flourishing florist business, kisses her teenage son on the lips, and is married to advertising executive âCraigâ (Tim Robinson). He is a fastidious gent, usually clad in beige, who keeps himself to himself and is largely derided by his workmates as being a bit of a drip. They are looking to move house when they get a parcel for an address nearby. âCraigâ is an helpful sort of fella and so takes it round to âAustinâ (Paul Rudd). He is a local television weatherman who invites his new neighbour for a drink that evening. The two hit it off fairly swiftly, and next thing they are crawling around the sewers under City Hall having an adventure! For a few days they are as thick as thieves, then one evening doesnât go so well for âCraigâ when âAustinâ has friends over and next thing that burgeoning rapport isnât what it was. Meantime, âTamiâ is spending a little more time with trainer âDevonâ and their son âStevieâ has got himself a sleepover partner. Increasingly adrift, âCraigâ tries to reconstruct his recent adventure with his wife, but that doesnât go remotely to plan and merely leaves this man even more alone, ridiculed, exposed and with a wife who appears to have abandoned him. Whatâs the point of all of this? Well thatâs a good question. Robinson excels here as an almost cartoon character epitomising just about everything inept that makes you cringe. Is that funny or is it uncomfortable or both? Well I just found it the latter, and as this story of family rather cynically unravels before us I found his characterisation quirky to start with but increasingly annoying, Chaplin-esque even, and I started not to care what happened to any of them. Is she having an affair? Does she want to? Is she just chronically unfulfilled with her lumbering husband? And then thereâs âAustinâ. Is he just a selfish and nasty piece of work or has he offered the hand of friendship to someone then hastily decided it was a mistake and time for the drawbridge to come up? It is the kind of film that has you shifting in your seat, and thatâs fine, providing that you can have some degree of empathy with someone on screen. I just didnât, and as the conclusion loomed I just felt indifferent to them, their scenario and to those irritating weather âpersonalitiesâ that American television channels seem obsessed with, but that the rest of the world has never employed. Maybe I just wasnât in the mood, and there were people adjacent in the cinema laughing out loud, but for me it just didnât work and showed a side of human behaviour youâd laugh at rather than with, and I didnât care for that either.
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