Friendship

"Men shouldn't have friends."

2025 1h 40m EN

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6.4

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88%

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6.6

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★6.4TMDB · 336🍅88%Rotten Tomatoes●72Metacritic★6.6IMDB · 39,440

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Synopsis

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Suburban dad Craig falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor Austin, and his attempts to make an adult male friend threatens to ruin both of their lives.

“Men shouldn't have friends.”

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Cast

Tim Robinson
Craig Waterman
Paul Rudd
Austin Carmichael
Kate Mara
Tami Waterman
Jack Dylan Grazer
Steven Waterman
Rick Worthy
Mr. Mendoza
Whitmer Thomas
Ian
Daniel London
Stan
Eric Rahill
Mike

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Andrew DeYoung
Writers: Andrew DeYoung
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Shot for just $2.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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MONEY

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Made its money back 8.5× over at the box office.

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ERA

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Released last year.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Andrew DeYoung, shot by Andy Rydzewski. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Keegan DeWitt. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Sophie Corra shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd and Kate Mara carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Men shouldn't have friends.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Andrew DeYoung directs. Andy Rydzewski behind the camera. Keegan DeWitt scores. Sophie Corra cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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Things worth knowing

1Shot for just $2.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
2Made its money back 8.5× over at the box office.
3Released last year.
4Directed by Andrew DeYoung, shot by Andy Rydzewski. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Keegan DeWitt. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Sophie Corra shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd and Kate Mara carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Men shouldn't have friends.".
9IMDB entry: tt30505698 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 38 themes, including "drug dealer", "jealousy", "husband wife relationship", "marriage crisis".

The technical file

Cinematography: Andy Rydzewski
Original score: Keegan DeWitt
Editing: Sophie Corra
Production design: Rocio Gimenez
Costume design: Chloe Karmin
Makeup / hair: Joshua First
VFX supervisor: Brett Keyes
Sound: Eva Madden
Stunt coordinator: Chris Barnes
Runtime: 100 min · 1h 40m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $2,000,000
Box office: $16,979,301
Return: 849% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Friendship (2025)
Rotten Tomatoes: 88% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 72/100
IMDB rating: 6.6/10 · 39,440 votes
MPAA: R

Awards

3 wins & 19 nominations total

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CinemaSerf2025-07-23
★ 6/10
“Tami” (Kate Mara) is recovering from cancer, needs a bigger van for her flourishing florist business, kisses her teenage son on the lips, and is married to advertising executive “Craig” (Tim Robinson). He is a fastidious gent, usually clad in beige, who keeps himself to himself and is largely derided by his workmates as being a bit of a drip. They are looking to move house when they get a parcel for an address nearby. “Craig” is an helpful sort of fella and so takes it round to “Austin” (Paul Rudd). He is a local television weatherman who invites his new neighbour for a drink that evening. The two hit it off fairly swiftly, and next thing they are crawling around the sewers under City Hall having an adventure! For a few days they are as thick as thieves, then one evening doesn’t go so well for “Craig” when “Austin” has friends over and next thing that burgeoning rapport isn’t what it was. Meantime, “Tami” is spending a little more time with trainer “Devon” and their son “Stevie” has got himself a sleepover partner. Increasingly adrift, “Craig” tries to reconstruct his recent adventure with his wife, but that doesn’t go remotely to plan and merely leaves this man even more alone, ridiculed, exposed and with a wife who appears to have abandoned him. What’s the point of all of this? Well that’s a good question. Robinson excels here as an almost cartoon character epitomising just about everything inept that makes you cringe. Is that funny or is it uncomfortable or both? Well I just found it the latter, and as this story of family rather cynically unravels before us I found his characterisation quirky to start with but increasingly annoying, Chaplin-esque even, and I started not to care what happened to any of them. Is she having an affair? Does she want to? Is she just chronically unfulfilled with her lumbering husband? And then there’s “Austin”. Is he just a selfish and nasty piece of work or has he offered the hand of friendship to someone then hastily decided it was a mistake and time for the drawbridge to come up? It is the kind of film that has you shifting in your seat, and that’s fine, providing that you can have some degree of empathy with someone on screen. I just didn’t, and as the conclusion loomed I just felt indifferent to them, their scenario and to those irritating weather “personalities” that American television channels seem obsessed with, but that the rest of the world has never employed. Maybe I just wasn’t in the mood, and there were people adjacent in the cinema laughing out loud, but for me it just didn’t work and showed a side of human behaviour you’d laugh at rather than with, and I didn’t care for that either.
hamfaceman2025-08-14
★ 8/10
Funny and hard to watch at times, due to how many horrible decisions Tim Robinson's character makes, but it was really quite good. Like a long "I Think You Should Leave" skit. Make friends with this ham while it is on your face!
Chandler Danier2025-09-03
★ 7/10
This is good. It was over-hyped to me. Way over-hyped. It's good to have friends. It's fun. Drags in the middle. Fun again.