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Friends with Kids

Format: DVD
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 1,485 ratings
IMDb6.1/10.0
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Genre Kids & Family
Format PAL, NTSC, DVD
Contributor DVD
Language French, English

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18x14x1cm. DVD.

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches; 2.93 ounces
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ PAL, NTSC, DVD
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ French
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1)
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0099AAI9U
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 1,485 ratings

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4.2 out of 5 stars
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anonymous
5.0 out of 5 stars Not a perfect film but funny and smart
Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2018
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Good dialogue and character development. A smart chick flick that can appeal to guys too. Insightful and funny about relationships and about children. It has been criticized for having a predictable plot (my only criticism is that I think the ending could have been better) or for adopting an underlying plot device (two friends decide to have a child while pursuing their romantic fulfillment with others) that is more typical of films than of real life. Nonetheless, I highly recommend it. It makes me want to see another of Westfeldt's films, "Kissing Jessica Stein."
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Liam D Esteppe
5.0 out of 5 stars Great comedyrama!!!
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2013
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Excellent flick. The only thing I disliked was the cheesey blaring music playing at the climax ... can't say more of course ... and it is only for a few seconds ... I just wuddah left that out. Def see this movie. It's smart.

PS Now that I see how many not great reviews the movie got I want to say more. It is a really good movie. If a movie isn't what you expected, that shouldn't count against the movie. So change all of those comments to no comments and the ratings go way up because the movie is funny. It even has one of the funniest moments I have ever seen in a moivie. Can't give it away but I am sure everyone laughs outloud at that moment.
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James E Geoffrey II
4.0 out of 5 stars Icarus Makes a Movie
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2012
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The recently released indie rom-com "Friends with Kids" purports to be a "daring" comedy that "questions the nature of friendship, family and true love." While it is true that the film is marinated in a certain "anti-establishment in a stereotypical Manhattan sort of way" ethos, what really makes this film extraordinary is how much it actually celebrates rather old fashioned virtues of love, loyalty and family. The result is a film that, while it badly stumbles in literally the last few seconds - more about which anon - is remarkably poignant and touching, albeit formulaic.

"Friends" tells the story of Jason (Adam Scott) and Julie (Jenifer Westfeldt), who find that their friends - couples Ben (Jon Hamm) and Missy (Kristin Wiig) and Alex (Chris O'Dowd) and Leslie (Maya Rudolph) - have become caught up in married life and the demands of raising kids. The plot goes pretty much as could be predicted. Jason and Julie decide to have a baby but not to get married and to continue looking for their "true loves." In due course, Jason meets Mary Jane (Megan Fox) and Julie meets Kurt (Edward Burns). Of course, in the end, in true rom-com tradition, the audience realizes that Jason and Julie are truly made for each other, and it is only a matter of time before Julie and Jason realize that for themselves.

Formulaic? Absolutely, but that is not a criticism. There is a reason for formulas and when they work - as they do here - they can pack an unexpected dramatic wallop. What such formulas require is likeable and believeable characters, and this "Friends with Kids" delivers. For sure, they are beautiful Manhattanites who have an almost central casting quality about them. However, they are more than that.

Ben and Missy start as insufferably loving and snarky, but as their marriage begins to disintegrate their agony and bitterness become palpable and it is hard not to feel their pain. Alex and Leslie are more typically everyman. They shout at each other - albeit with more curse words than you would hear among sailors on a troopship - and argue over the kids and the housework and all the things couples typically fight over, but their genuine love for each other is touching and they bring a reassuring sense of stability to a cast of characters who otherwise seem emotionally untethered.

Then, of course, there is Jason and Julie. The gut level response to both is that they live for little more than the moment and the next night on the town. However, even before they hatch their grand plan, both show an unexpected humanity. Jason is shown playing with Alex and Leslie's little boy and seeming to enjoy it. Julie plays a word game with Jason in which she reveals that she would rather lose her own life than watch someone she loves suffer. In fact, both are good people who are lost and need each other to find their better selves. Again formula, but it is hard not to like and root for these characters.

In the end, the most striking thing in all of this is how the film thematically takes the audience on a long ride through New York self-satisfaction and, dare we say it, liberalism only to end up reaffirming fairly traditional values. In a sadly politically conscious age, conservative viewers will wince when Jason denounces organized religion and George W. Bush, but they shouldn't. By the film's last reel, Jason and Julie find themselves deciding to be togther with their child in a (more or less) traditional family relationship. If this is a film that is supposed to queston traditional notions of love and family, it should have come up with a significantly different ending. It does not, and so what makes it daring is the fact that it tests alternative relationships and finds them wanting. Whodda thunk it?

The acting in the film is terrific. No other word applies. Jon Hamm and Kristin Wiig are agonizingly poignant as the couple whose mariage is falling apart. The viewer almost wants to look away so painful is Hamm's protrayal of Ben's rising bitterness and unhappiness. Kristin Wiig's similar handling of Missy's sense of loneliness and abandonment is spot on. This is not just another typical Hollywood handling of ruined marraiges and ruined lives. This is painful and biting.

By contrast, Maya Rudolph and Chris O'Dowd give the audience a couple who are just instantly likeable because they are so human. This is no lovey-dovey married couple who stroll arm and arm through life. They fight. They say dumb things. They embarrass each other, but still they work on their marriage and actually love each other. In a similar vein, Ed Burns and Megan Fox, though their characters are far less developed, come across as believeable and certainly work as the outside love interests for Julie and Jason.

However, the highest praise should absolutely go to Jennifer Westfledt and Adam Scott. Westfeldt, Jon Hamm's real life partner, besides being the film's screenwriter and producer, creates in Julie an absolutely endearing and loveable - in the literal sense - character. She is a devoted mother and the viewer can't help but sympathize with her as she comes to the increasing realization that Jason is the real love of her life. To watch as she falls almost absentmindedly in love and then to see her struggle with that love, is nothing short of powerful.

Adam Scott also performs brilliantly. Jason is not as instantly likeble as the more overtly emotional Julie, but Scott teases this out with effective subtelty. The viewer sees Jason as being superficially attracted to Mary Jane and it is easy to be dismissive of him as just another playboy - until you see the real pain and resentment in his face when he thinks that Kurt is getting close to his son. Suddenly, beneath the cavalier façade is a loving father who instictively resists having some other man in his family's life. Scott portrays this not just with words but with a masterful control of facial expression and tone of voice. He proves himself the consummate actor and deserves the highest accolades for his work in the film.

Screenwriter Westfeldt, other than perhaps relying a bit too much on a couple of soliloquies to move the plot along, scarcely puts a foot wrong. The viewer reaches the expected climax where Jason declares his love for Julie and there is a real sense of warmth and humanity that elevates the story above its formula driven expectations. There is what should be the closing kiss and then...Westfeldt blows it - and blows it badly.

The reviewer's code of conduct forbids revealing the ending of a movie, suffice to say that whole film schools should be dedicated to exploring why Westfeldt so badly mishandled the film's literally final seconds. It may have been because she thought she could avoid a formula ending. It may have been that she simply did not appreciate the natural dynamics of the kind of screenplay she was writing - or at least thought that she could avoid them. It may even be that she simply thought she was just getting a final laugh out of the audience as the movie does tend to veer a bit into sitcom every now and again.

Whatever the reason, the effect is to take her redeemed, decent and very human protagonists and reduce them in a split second to superficial, carnal and crude caricatures. In a film otherwise handled so deftly, it is almost a disaster. Not ruinous to be sure, but an incredible disappointment that will have the audience leaving the theater befuddled and deflated. They should be feeling warm and comforted and instead, if anything, they are probably worrying about what kind of upbringing Julie and Jason's son will get from these two rather base human beings, who after all they have been through seem to have ended up only where they started on the emotional maturity scale.

Friends with Kids is a good movie that is elevated by the absolutely spectacular acting of its leads. It is also oddly refreshing in its "through the back door" tribute to frankly good old fashioned values of family, love and devotion. Values not immediately apparent at first viewing given the film's stereotyped Manhattan sensibility. However, in the last seconds Westfeldt flies too close to the comedic sun and falls to Earth. So the bottom line is that Friends is absolutely worth seeing, but when the viewer gets to what should be the film's final kiss, he should run, not walk, from the theater.
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K.A.L.
5.0 out of 5 stars Funny, sad - a laugh and a cry.
Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2012
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Lauren's review of this film could not have matched my own better, so I will just piggy-back off her review and ask you to read it. She gave it four stars and rightly so. I gave it five to counter a 1 star review that was sheer nonsense. There was only one negative for me, however. The dialogue in the last scene was unnecessarily vulgar and took the audience away from one of the most tender moments in the film. This is where Jason shows a side of himself that you hope is there, but because the character's sarcastic-laced wittiness is so pervasive, you're unsure. The very end was a bit disappointing, but did not alter my overall opinion of the movie.
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King Solomon
5.0 out of 5 stars Chick Flick Of 2012!!!
Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2012
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I've never written a review on Amazon before but when I saw the negative feedback, I knew I just had to. I love love love chick flicks and every year I have my "Chick Flick Of The Year Award" on Facebook. lol. This year, the award goes to this movie for sure. I don't want to spoil anything in the movie but any woman who ever loved someone, I mean really loved someone, will be able to relate to the characters in the movie. This movie will make you laugh, cry, scream, all at the same time. If you're feeling down and need a good movie to pick you up, then this is the one. I promise you'll love it.
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KC
3.0 out of 5 stars Eh
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2020
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Sort of a spoiler (like you can't see it coming, ha!) After Adam Scott was such a jerk I kinda wish she had stayed with Ed Norton. He was perfect in every way.

I'm actually reviewing this because my sister and I are sick of seeing the SNL cast in everything. I like Kristen Wiig A LOT, but she gets so much work. Why not give this role to another actor? She's best at madcap comedy. She brought nothing to this part. So she wants to do some dramatic work--no doubt she'll get the chance!

Maya Rudolph: She's okay. She's Minnie Ripperton's daughter (a plus). There's nothing special about her--my opinion...everyone is entitled to their own--and she didn't bring anything to this role.

Whoever is casting these movies, give other actors a chance! I think I'm going to start boycotting stuff with SNL actors. Enough! already. I'm talking about most of them. I'd love to see more of Eddie Murphy, Garrett Morris, and others that we don't see ad nauseum.
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Boisvert Véronic
5.0 out of 5 stars Parfait
Reviewed in Canada on December 18, 2020
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Silke Kernchen-Heße
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfekter Kauf
Reviewed in Germany on January 19, 2020
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Eine geniale Geschichte, finde die Story Hammer. Alles prima, von der Bestellung bis zur Lieferung.
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Mrs Khan
5.0 out of 5 stars Totally awesome
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 4, 2013
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I LOVED this film and watch it every couple of months. I don't yet have children so am probably bang in the target market but I think that this would amuse people with children (since there was a time when you didn't have them, remember?)... I find this kind of dry humour so hilarious and the film is beautifully executed. There is enough real life bite for it to easily side step being saccharine or predictable. Plus a little romance and twist is always a winner when you want a pick me up. Absolutely essential to any film collection.
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Sharon
1.0 out of 5 stars dvd movie
Reviewed in Canada on May 6, 2024
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This dvd does not play in Canada. Kind of strange that this is not listed when you purchase from the seller
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The Earnest Critic
4.0 out of 5 stars This is a good, funny film for adults
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 27, 2014
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This film was v v funny, the opening 20 minutes are particularly funny and the dilemmas are probably recognisable by most people late 20's +. It is well written, very well acted. The lead male actor, who I've not seen in anything before (Adam Scott), is particularly brilliant. And Jennifer Westfeldt directs well from her own script whilst acting. Female Woody Allen???
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