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Drinking Buddies
Directed by
Joe Swanberg
R
2013
90m
Drama
,
Romance
,
and more
6.1
84%
49%
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Luke and Kate are coworkers at a brewery who spend their nights drinking and flirting heavily. One weekend away together with their significant others proves who really belongs together and who doesn't.
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Cast of Drinking Buddies
Olivia Wilde
Kate
Jake Johnson
Luke
Anna Kendrick
Jill
Ron Livingston
Chris
Ti West
Dave
Jason Sudeikis
Gene Dentler
Mike Brune
Mike
Frank V. Ross
Frank
Michael Gaertner
Man with Fiance
Kristin Davis
Fiance
Jim Ciback
Jim
Alicia Van Couvering
Amy / Producer
Michael Zeller
Eli
Joe Swanberg
Angry Car Guy / Director / Writer / Producer
Roberta Chung
Partygoer (uncredited)
Sam Slater
Producer
Andrea Roa
Producer
Paul Bernon
Producer
Drinking Buddies Ratings & Reviews
The Atlantic
Noah Berlatsky
Drinking Buddies is that thing that they say doesn't get made much anymore-a well-executed, charming, effective, and plausible romantic comedy.
Film Comment Magazine
Dan Sullivan
Swanberg is not so much kowtowing to romcom convention as putting great care into crafting something idiosyncratic, sneakily intelligent-and totally disposable.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
Here's a toast to the cast and crew: "Drinking Buddies" is a three-dimensional movie that doesn't require beer goggles.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
If you're going to build an entire film on microexpressions, then a certain innate magnetism is required. Swanberg gets it in spades from his top-shelf cast.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
[Swanberg] points the movie in directions that defy our expectations, exploring the characters' immaturity and the entropy of human interaction.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
"Drinking Buddies" sneaks up on you; you think it's going in one direction, and suddenly it goes somewhere much more interesting.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
Swanberg doesn't exactly reinvent the romantic-comedy formula, but he explores it in unexpected ways, with a terrific cast making the relationships all the more genuine and enjoyable.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
Swanberg achieves an occasionally heady aura of improvisational flirtatiousness mixed with a churning will-they-or-won't-they suspense.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Drinking Buddies walks a fine line between the mundane and the meaningful, but the actors walking it are top-notch.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
This is a special movie.
What the Flick?!
Alonso Duralde
It's a romantic comedy that doesn't stick to formula -- I honestly had no idea how things were going to turn out.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Director Joe Swanberg and a terrific ensemble cast imbue a simple story with authenticity and shambling charm.
ChristyLemire.com
Christy Lemire
Drinking Buddies is a crackling screwball comedy refracted through a low-key, mumblecore prism.
RogerEbert.com
Odie Henderson
This looks like a string of screen tests and home movie outtakes of the actors getting hammered on set. It's "Grown Ups 2" for the art house crowd.
New York Post
Sara Stewart
There's more plot, and scripted dialogue, here than in Swanberg's earlier, mumblecore work. But authenticity still comes first.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Mr. Swanberg's camera weaves through bodies at rest, at work and at the bar in no particular hurry, and his script captures the idioms of men and women who are equally inclined to waste words and to say very little.
NPR
Ella Taylor
It feels mumblecore-ishly vague and rambling in its construction, like Hannah Takes the Stairs without the raffish charm.
Film Journal International
Nick Schager
Though nothing immensely consequential happens during the course of Drinking Buddies, Swanberg crafts a conversational atmosphere that compensates for a lack of momentous drama
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
"Drinking Buddies" has a cleaner structure than Swanberg's earlier wanderings, but after several projects I still don't know what compels him as a filmmaker ...
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
We laugh with these people not because they're absurd, but because they're so normal. Swanberg's made the rare film that feels exactly the way your friends do when they don't know you're watching them.
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