Product Details

• Actors: Josh Hamilton, Eric Stoltz, Samuel Gould, Catherine Kellner, Jonathan Baumbach
• Directors: Noah Baumbach
• Writers: Noah Baumbach, Oliver Berkman
• Producers: Andrew Hersh, Carol Baum, Erin Gorman, Jason Blum, Jeremy Kramer
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Criterion
• DVD Release Date: August 22, 2006
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (76 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000FUF7DA
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #17,039 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Kicking & Screaming - Criterion Collection" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

From The New Yorker

Noah Baumbach's first movie focusses on the indecisive, enervated months that four college buddies spend together after graduation-clinging to old habits (crossword puzzles, trivia games), living near or on campus-before they go their separate ways. What finally makes them move on, and sets this film apart from other slacker comedies, is the women they're attracted to: risk-taking students who are more capable than their men of standing on their own. Baumbach doesn't write grand speeches; he lets details and repartee carry the movie's emotional weight, and when it finally dawns on his characters that, even in postgrad limbo, life has a way of pushing you along, there's nothing self-congratulatory about the discovery. The picture has a lovely, understated autobiographical lilt. The perfect ensemble cast includes Josh Hamilton, Olivia d'Abo, Parker Posey, and the reigning king of independent-film ennui, Eric Stoltz, as the seen-it-all barkeep. -Bruce Diones
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Product Description

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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Oh, I've been to Prague", March 11, 2005

By	Jim M. (Springfield MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kicking & Screaming (Sp) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Noah Baumbach's KICKING AND SCREAMING is one of the funniest, smartest, most realistic films about post college life.

Following several guys, after they graduate from college and have no idea what to do with their life. So, they just stay in their college town and act like they are still in college.

The cast is perfect. Josh Hamilton and Chris Eigemann (star of Whit Stillman's films) are terrific together.

It is filled with so many great moments (the final airport sequence is one of the great speeches in film history), great quotes, it is just a great film.

Even if it isn't on DVD (and it should be) it is worth picking up the VHS to see.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars best movie i've seen in a long time, May 7, 2005

By	M. Jarvis - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Kicking and Screaming (EP Edition) [VHS] (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.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Joyous Good Time!, June 13, 2004

By	Bernard Chapin "Ora Et Labora!" (CHICAGO! USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Kicking & Screaming (Sp) [VHS] (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.