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Special Features
- Video interview with Noah Baumbach
- Video conversations with Baumbach and cast members Josh Hamilton, Chris Eigeman, and Carlos Jacott
- Deleted scenes
- Noah Baumbach's 2000 short film Conrad and Butler in "Conrad and Butler Take a Vacation" featuring Kicking and Screaming cast members Carlos Jacott and John Lehr
- Brief 1995 interviews with Baumbach and the cast, originally broadcast on IFC
- Trailer
- Foldout booklet with an essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Editorial Reviews
Paralyzed with post-graduation ennui, a group of college friends remain on campus, patching together a community for themselves in order to deny the real-world futures awaiting them. Academy Award–nominated screenwriter Noah Baumbach’s hilarious and touching directorial debut was one of the highlights of the American independent film scene of the nineties, speaking directly to a generation of adults-to-be unable to reconcile their hermetic education experience with workaday responsibility, and posing the eternal question, "Where do we go from here?" Stingingly funny and incisive, Baumbach’s breakthrough features endlessly quotable dialogue delivered by a stellar ensemble cast.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
And thank God. I can't add much more to what others have already said. It's a great film. Warm, funny, touching. Great performances, great writing. I particularly like the scene with Chris Eigeman in the bar, saying, "Look at these [bleeping] people." And the ending is a masterstroke. Heartbreaking, but perhaps that's the point: youth will go and in the end the best you may have is a wonderful, nostalgic memory.
They tried to make a film addressing post-graduate angst when I was in college. It was called "St. Elmo's Fire" and it was truly one of the worst things ever put on screen. Max, look at Demi Moore, Judd Nelson and Emilio Estevez and ponder how such dark forces could gather together and create such a pretentious, self indulgent mess of a movie and get people to see it. There were actually a couple of people I went to school with that took that movie quite seriously; formed dialogues over it, etc. The way to handle them was to nod as if you took them seriously and get them to continue to embarrass themselves.
The point is, while the theme or idea may not be anything new, what matters is the writing, the performances and the presentation. "Kicking and Screaming" is honest and human while "St. Elmo's" was (at that time) star-studded, cynical and pandering and ultimately very stupid.
I recommend people buy a copy of "Kicking and Screaming". Because it is one of the great films of the 90's that hardly anyone saw and it will probably be difficult to find it stocked in video stores after 2004.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
Few movies do I enjoy more than Kicking and Screaming. I own a copy and watch it every six months or so. It always makes me laugh but it also succeeds in making the viewer experience sincere empathy and sympathy for its characters. Anyone who went to college in the nineties can relate to these individuals at some level. Furthermore, just in case you're wondering, its not a Whit Stillman film but many of the same actors are used such as Chris Eigeman. Here we have a group of friends who have to be dragged kicking and screaming into adulthood. All of them appear to be deflated by their graduations from college. "What do we do now?" is their central question. By the end, nearly everybody discovers some kind of direction in which to take their lives.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
By M. Jarvis
Format:VHS Tape
PLEASE, please, put this movie out on dvd! it's been said so many times before, but i can not stress how worthy and worthwhile this movie is, and how totally deserving it is of a dvd release. i hope somebody with some authority reads these reviews and realizes that they are idiots for not having this excellent movie out on dvd already.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
2.0 out of 5 stars
Forgettable
It's not enough for characters or conversations to be "like real life." They have to reveal something. Read more
Published 3 months ago by mr. critic
3.0 out of 5 stars
don't believe the hype
I normally like Criterion's choices, but I think they made a misstep here. It's a fine line between a Gary Larson cartoon that really works, and one that doesn't quite. Read more
Published 5 months ago by L. Monstuart
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Script
A classic post-college movie, filled with great lines and identifiable situations. Max is one of the best characters ever, and Otis/Skippy are solid comic relief.
Published 6 months ago by Chris Hutchison
1.0 out of 5 stars
Blah
It tried to be clever, but it was not. Silly and pretentious, ironically at the same time. Laughed three times.
Published 10 months ago by seminoler
5.0 out of 5 stars
an all time classic
i wish i had more time to write a proper review, but i would probably just end up quoting funny lines and ruining it for those who have not seen this gem yet. Read more
Published on May 17, 2011 by douglas esper
5.0 out of 5 stars
Probably my favorite movie, but it's OK if you don't "get it"
This film is about being book smart while having trouble with real life smarts. Whether you went to college or not, you should "get" this because we all struggle with being wise... Read more
Published on January 25, 2010 by Mr. Scott T. Allen
3.0 out of 5 stars
Hmm
Being a 22 year old college student, I kind of relate to this movie.
I'm living with my parents, no real goals after school, and have a group of friends that are the... Read more
I'm living with my parents, no real goals after school, and have a group of friends that are the... Read more
Published on January 15, 2010 by Jacob O. Sever
1.0 out of 5 stars
Almost fell asleep
I'm trying to find why people liked this movie so much, but I still don't get it. The characters are self-centered, not very insightful, and not particularly believable. Read more
Published on July 8, 2009
2.0 out of 5 stars
Looks like somebody stayed too long in film school
I just couldn't care about these just past college 20-somethings, struggling to find themselves while engaging in annoying fake quiz games. Read more
Published on May 26, 2009 by Bradley F. Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars
Kicking and Screaming - Criterion review
A heartbreaker this
And FINALLY on dvd (Criterion!)
Features several deleted scenes (in one we learn that Chet went out with Grovers ex)
Also, a... Read more
And FINALLY on dvd (Criterion!)
Features several deleted scenes (in one we learn that Chet went out with Grovers ex)
Also, a... Read more
Published on January 18, 2009 by Joseph Morris
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