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Kicking And Screaming

1995, Movie, R, 96 mins

KICKING AND SCREAMING
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So you thought REALITY BITES was the most infuriating feature-length whine ever produced on behalf of coddled crybabies who wouldn't know a real problem if it kicked them in the butt. Get ready for KICKING AND SCREAMING, a relentlessly irritating paean to the fashionable acedia of overprivileged slackers. Josh Hamilton, Carlos Jacott, Christopher Eigeman and Jason Wiles have just graduated from college and don't know what to do with their lives. So they loll around playing infantile head games -- "Who would you rather be stranded on a desert island with: MacNeil or Lehrer?" -- and complaining about girls. First-time director Noah Baumbach seems to have learned everything he knows about the world from MTV, and his style suggests that he's taken a lot of notes at Whit Stillman and Hal Hartley pictures. leave a comment
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