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Richard, Ron, Tim, and Jonathan are friends from college who gather for a weekend each year to celebrate their friendship and catch up with each other. On the surface, they look like other men going through life: they have careers and families and responsibilities. But as with many people, there is more to them than meets the eye. As the weekend progresses, they go down the rabbit hole of excess. Fueled by sex, drugs, and rock and roll, their bacchanalian reunion drives them to an unexpected place where they are forced to confront themselves and the choices they’ve made.

Writer/director Mark Pellington returns to Sundance with a riveting and emotionally raw story that puts the modern male psyche under the knife, opening it up and exposing it for what it is. The four leads deliver crackling performances as they dig deeply within themselves to portray painfully honest characters. What emerges is a visually dazzling, sonically charged exploration of men on the brink of enlightenment… whether they want it or not. –Sundance Film Festival

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Westley

4Apr12

This is unintentional comedy gold. I can't believe how pretentious this movie is. The screenplay is awful. It's one dumb mid-life-crisis cliche after another, played so self-seriously it's ludicrous. I imagine the writer thinks this stuff is incredibly "deep", not realizing how trite, obvious, and shallow it really is. On a technical level it is stylish, but the style can't save this vapid story about vapid people.

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Mike

29Feb12

Terrible. One of the most poorly directed films I have ever seen. The script is ridiculously bad, but Mark Pellington's contribution is the biggest disaster. He suffocates everything with a mess of sensory overload, rendering the end product nearly unwatchable at times. Lowe, Jane and Piven do some interesting things with a garbage script (McKay doesn't quite hold his own). Otherwise, it's a waste of time.

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Jackpantalones

26Feb12

Holy cow. The early frenetic partying scenes are static and dull, while the tragic and "disturbing" second half is deeply funny. And I don't think that was on purpose. Ludicrous, self-important and over-directed. Submerge yourself in the mangst! (That's "man angst," by the way). Best exchange: "What the fuck are we doing here?" "We're not even here." That's deep. I hope my mid-life crisis is this nuts.

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Michael S. Templin

2Jan12

Well written, enthralling characters. Great locations, as demonstrated by beautiful landscape and low-angle Interior shots. Great score, ambient & focused. Good cast; Lowe, Piven, Jane all lead very well. McKay falls short. Clean cuts, clean editing; poorly executed contemporary technique (goPro, Shake) but well organized. (IV)

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