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Kicking and Screaming is a 1995 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach in his feature directorial debut. It tells of a group of college graduates who refuse to move on with their lives, each in their own peculiar way. The film stars Josh Hamilton, Chris Eigeman, Carlos Jacott, and features Eric Stoltz, Olivia d'Abo and Parker Posey.

Kicking and Screaming
The Criterion Collection re-issue cover
Directed by	Noah Baumbach
Screenplay by	Noah Baumbach
Story by	Noah Baumbach Oliver Berkman
Produced by	Joel Castleberg
Starring	Josh Hamilton Olivia d'Abo Chris Eigeman Parker Posey Jason Wiles Cara Buono Carlos Jacott Elliott Gould Eric Stoltz
Cinematography	Steven Bernstein
Edited by	J. Kathleen Gibson
Music by	Phil Marshall
Distributed by	Trimark Pictures Inc.
Release dates	October 4, 1995 (1995-10-04) (NYFF) October 6, 1995 (1995-10-06) (United States)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1.3 million[1]
Box office	$718,490[2]

Cast

Production

Much of the film was shot at Occidental College.

Jason Blum, Baumbach's college roommate who was producing a film for the first time, obtained financing after receiving a letter from family acquaintance Steve Martin endorsing the script. Blum attached the letter to copies of the script he sent around Hollywood.[3]

Reception and legacy

Kicking and Screaming received mostly positive reviews, with many critical assessments describing it as remarkably competent for a directorial and writing debut, expecting that Baumbach would "graduate to better things."[4] On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 57% based on 37 reviews, with an average rating of 6.4/10, and with the critical consensus reading: "Witty and watchable yet undeniably flawed, Kicking and Screaming marks writer-director Noah Baumbach as an emerging talent with intriguing potential."[5] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 75 out of 100, based on reviews from 18 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[6]

Roger Ebert praised the film's "good eye and a terrific ear; the dialogue by writer-director Noah Baumbach is not simply accurate... but a distillation of reality–elevating aimless brainy small-talk into a statement."[7] Reviews often mentioned the thin and meandering plot, but most noted this as a facet of the characters' life stage. Janet Maslin of The New York Times stated, "Kicking and Screaming occupies its postage-stamp size terrain with confident comic style."[8]

According to Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times, "You begin to wonder why you're bothering to watch the aimless lives of these four unfold... At 25 he may be too close to the material to achieve the detachment from which irony and meaning flow."[9] In a 2020 retrospective article, Nathan Dunne of The Guardian wrote the film is "a charming distillation of 90s slacker posturing and the tedium of a quarter-life crisis."[10]

The film premiered in 1995 at the New York Film Festival to critical acclaim. Baumbach was chosen as one of Newsweek's "Ten New Faces of 1996".[11] The Criterion Collection released the film on DVD on August 22, 2006 in the U.S.[12]

References

External links

• Kicking and Screaming at IMDb
• Kicking and Screaming at AllMovie
• Kicking and Screaming at Rotten Tomatoes
• Reasons for Kicking and Screaming an essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum at the Criterion Collection
• Kicking and Screaming on MUBI

На других языках

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- [en] Kicking and Screaming (1995 film)

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[it] Scalciando e strillando

Scalciando e strillando (Kicking and Screaming) è un film del 1995 diretto da Noah Baumbach e suo film di debutto.

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[ru] Забыть и вспомнить

«Забыть и вспомнить» (англ. Kicking and Screaming) — американский фильм 1995 года, режиссёрский дебют Ноя Баумбаха. Фильм рассказывает о друзьях выпускниках, которые никак не могут начать самостоятельную взрослую жизнь и бесконечно цепляются за старое.

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