Synopsis
When a group of old college friends reunite over a long weekend after one of them attempts suicide, old crushes and resentments shine light on their life decisions, and ultimately push friendships and relationships to the brink.
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Cast
- Aubrey PlazaSarah
- Jane LevyKate
- Jason RitterAlex
- Maggie GraceSiri
- Max GreenfieldJosh
- Max MinghellaIsaac
- Nate ParkerBen
- Adam SaundersNight Editor
- Rey LucasRudy Suárez
Recommendations
- 63
New York Post
As About Alex moves toward its conclusion, it devolves into some plot resolutions that were a lot less predictable back in the ’80s. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
There's nothing new under the sun, but About Alex is very, very not new. Luckily, most of its capable cast muster the warmth we require, and Zwick's script offers more humor (however mild the laughs are) than sentimentality. - 50
The Playlist
About Alex is about too much and too little, a sandbox for its considerable cast, but ultimately just following the reunion rulebook. - 50
Village Voice
A lightweight Big Chill reworked for today's young professional set, which proves too clumsy and self-conscious to live up to its weighty subject matter. - 50
The A.V. Club
About Alex benefits from a uniformly strong cast that does its best to find moments of truth in the banal, derivative scenario they’ve been handed. - 50
Arizona Republic
Of the bunch, Plaza, Minghella and Parker fare best, though Parker's Ben is weighed down with cliches. Alex ostensibly is the focal point of the film, but Ritter is relegated mostly to observer status, healing while watching the melodramas unfold around him. A few of them are interesting. But not enough, not in a story that seems familiar because, after all, it is. - 40
The Dissolve
If About Alex were the pilot to a new television series, there’d be reason to stick around for a few episodes, if only to see these actors grow into their roles and develop more chemistry. But About Alex isn’t television, and Zwick never really solves the problem of how to make a houseful of semi-likable characters into cinema. - 40
Film.com
The only thing moviegoers will hate more than the phony, faux-felt conversations of About Alex at its worst is the unfulfilled promise its high points suggest when it’s at its best.
