Synopsis
Weekend trips, office parties, late night conversations, drinking on the job, marriage pressure, biological clocks, holding eye contact a second too long… you know what makes the line between “friends” and “more than friends” really blurry? Beer.
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Cast
- Olivia WildeKate
- Jake JohnsonLuke
- Anna KendrickJill
- Ron LivingstonChris
- Ti WestDave
- Jason SudeikisGene Dentler
- Mike BruneMike
- Frank V. RossFrank
- Michael GaertnerMan with Fiance
- Kristin DavisFiance
Recommendations
- 100
Village Voice
With dexterity and care, Swanberg illuminates our muddled perceptions of our own relationships. He fixates on the minutiae of hanging out, the stuff of little loves and lies, the feints and thrusts we make in sorting matters of head and heart. - 91
IndieWire
Swanberg once again shows a capacity for capturing small moments that exist outside the direction of the plot. At the same time, the effective fragments of "Drinking Buddies" take his oeuvre in a new direction by accumulating into a reworking big picture. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
The actors all blend terrifically, making this the film equivalent of great hang time. - 82
Film.com
In a film about how hard it is to know what you want, and then to express it, Swanberg gets to the heart of the matters of the heart with disarming doses of both charm and wisdom. - 75
The Playlist
Credit Swanberg who served as both director and editor for making a film that feels loose without ever being ponderous or phony. - 75
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
We knew Livingston, Kendrick and Johnson (“Safety Not Guaranteed”) would work in this setting. But Wilde adds to the growing repertoire she showed off in “Deadfall” and “Butter,” films no one saw but which revealed that she’s a lot more than a pretty face. - 63
Slant Magazine
Less precise and cohesive than much of Joe Swanberg's recent work, as its small, improvisational skeleton struggles to meet the demands of the more ambitious story it's trying to tell. - 60
Time Out
The best thing you can say about the movie is that you couldn’t accuse it of being a sellout — nor would you think it was a Joe Swanberg movie.
