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Director: Frank Whaley
Movie review
From Time Out New York
The reason this 2007 drama has languished for so long could be that it’s a bromance whose moment has only now arrived; more likely, it’s because Frank Whaley’s lightweight slice of life is so crashingly ordinary. Aspiring filmmaker Owen (Prinze Jr.) and hard-drinking drummer Ray (Klein) shirk their respective responsibilities—a shrewish fiancée, a young daughter—by indulging in arrested-adolescent high jinks. Fecklessness need not be an impediment to sympathy or enjoyment, but Owen and Ray offer neither scabrous flair nor compelling self-destructiveness, just tiresome narcissism. New York City? You could find these guys anywhere.Author: Ben Walters
Time Out New York Issue 701: March 5-11, 2009
Cast & crew
Director: Frank Whaley
Cast: Freddie Prinze Jr, Chris Klein
Duration: 103 mins
US Release: Mar 6 2009
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