We liked a lot this edgy comedy about the new friendship of two couples who meet when their young sons bond at an LA park. I was intrigued after hearing Adam Scott and Jason Schwartzman discuss their nudity and the prostheses they wore to cover it. Scott (last blogged in Friends with Kids) and Taylor Schilling (she'll be known only as Piper on Orange is the New Black for a very long time) are Alex and Emily, new to LA and eager to meet people. Schwartzman and Judith Godrèche (most recently in Big Eyes and Potiche, respectively) are hipsters Kurt and Charlotte, welcoming long-time residents.
This is the second feature for director/writer Patrick Brice, who was nominated for the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for this movie. There are only four producers: Scott, his wife Naomi Scott, someone I didn't know, and Mark Duplass (last produced The Skeleton Twins). Certainly the first and last of these are no strangers to edginess and weird relationships.
I can't find links to the soundtrack by Julian Wass (he scored another Duplass production The Do-Deca-Pentathalon), but he has a website with many tracks of his pleasant other work, and an album of singles by others has been released (here's the iTunes link).
The movie was shot in either 12 or 15 days (depending on which festival interview you heard) at the home of comedian Adam Carolla. And a lovely home it is.
Rotten Tomatoes' critics are averaging 81% and its audiences trailing at 68, which just goes to show that not everyone has Jack's and my sense of humor. If nudity and sex on screen don't bother you, and you like cringing comedies, go see it and laugh a lot.
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