Synopsis
An uptight documentary filmmaker and his wife find their lives loosened up a bit after befriending a free-spirited younger couple.
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Cast
- Ben StillerJosh Schrebnick
- Naomi WattsCornelia Schrebnick
- Adam DriverJamie Massey
- Amanda SeyfriedDarby Massey
- Charles GrodinLeslie Breitbart
- Adam HorovitzFletcher
- Maria DizziaMarina
- Dree HemingwayTipper
- Brady CorbetKent Arlington
- Matthew MaherTim
Recommendations
- 100
The Guardian
An almost perfect 90-minute hit of confident and inspired comedic commentary. - 91
The Playlist
While a truly original comedy, While We're Young is the rare one that also laces rich thematic elements with wonderfully drawn characters to create a picture that's as genuinely hilarious as it is thoughtful about how hopes, ambitions, dreams and ideals of personal and creative accomplishments that ebb and flow across decades. - 90
Variety
Though While We’re Young is primarily a comedy — and a very funny one at that, managing to be both blisteringly of-the-moment and classically zany in the same breath — Baumbach has bitten off several serious topics, for which laughter serves as the most agreeable way to engage. - 83
Hitfix
The film is at its best when it simply focuses on this strange dynamic between the two couples and the way they are each looking for something from the other that they don't dare articulate for fear of having to grapple with these weaknesses or flaws in themselves. - 83
IndieWire
While We're Young is a clear-eyed satire of intergenerational tension that derives much of its comedy from a series of moments in which its mid-forties couple attempt to mesh with a younger crowder. - 80
CineVue
Baumbach is never likely to make a film that doesn't engage with interesting issue, but on this occasion he's made something smart and relevant that really brings the funny, arguably making this his most widely appealing film to date. - 80
The Telegraph
Baumbach packs his film with the wit and vigour of a polished one-act play, right down to a climax which wants us to notice how much juggling he’s doing with his ideas. - 80
The New Yorker
That is what I admire in While We’re Young; it shows a director not so much mooning over the past, with regret for faded powers, as probing his own obsessions and the limits of his style.
