Synopsis
After living for years as a struggling artist in New York City, Jake is calling it quits and returning home to Ohio. On his last day in the city, he persuades his three oldest friends – Billy, Rocks and Gunderson – to help him retrace their greatest adventure together: a walk down the entire length of Manhattan.
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Cast
- Adam BrodyRocks
- Wyatt CenacGunderson
- Josh LawsonJake
- Danny JacobsBilly
- Amber TamblynTabatha
- Lauren MillerEmma
- Scott AdsitPriest
- Jon GlaserDonkey
- Zuzanna SzadkowskiCeCe
- Matthew DaddarioPeter
Recommendations
- 70
The New York Times
Mr. Jacobs and Mr. Grodsky have an extraordinary ear for the rhythms and nuances of everyday speech, as voices overlap, conversations take random directions, and casual remarks carry loaded subtexts. - 50
The A.V. Club
Part of what made Edgar Wright’s "The World’s End" so refreshing was the way that it feinted at being a certain tired sort of movie before suddenly making a wild leap in another direction. Growing Up And Other Lies, is exactly the mediocre movie that The World’s End was pretending to be. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Intermittently amusing but rarely as funny as it wants to be. - 40
Village Voice
The seriocomic Growing Up and Other Lies, written and directed by Jacobs and Darren Grodsky (Humboldt County), offers strained male bonding from a quartet sorely out of tune. - 40
New York Daily News
Only Adam Brody is compelling here. - 30
The Dissolve
Although the film is supposedly about movement, Growing Up And Other Lies frequently stalls out, and whole patches of it grind on without momentum or purpose. - 12
New York Post
Struggling for the same vibe as male-bonding comedies like “Diner,” Growing Up & Other Lies instead feels like a really long beer commercial, except beer commercials usually contain at least one witty idea.
