SYNOPSIS
Kicking and Screaming. Noah Baumbach’s first film, about a group of recent college graduates who are finding it difficult to move on, demonstrated that the filmmaker had a knack for acute observation and razor-sharp dialogue. Highlighting the tragi-comic period between your educational years, when you are told that anything is possible, to the stark reality of the ‘real world,’ Baumbach’s characters have heads filled with knowledge, but use it on pointless challenges with each other, such as daring the group to name five films with ‘monkeys’ in the title. By the end of the film, there has been break ups and failed starts, but the characters are finding their way, and that’s what matters.