Having successfully built a devoted following as a leading purveyor of cringe comedy with his hit Netflix sketch series, I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson, the show’s rubber-faced star/co-creator ups his game with the innocently titled Friendship, a gleefully discomfiting portrait of male bonding that delivers some of the year’s biggest laughs.
Robinson navigates an extremely fine line between lovable goof and creepy psycho in writer-director Andrew DeYoung’s fearless first feature, playing a klutzy man-child of a suburban dad whose everyman demeanor becomes short-circuited after being taken under the wing of a friendly neighbor (Paul Rudd).
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The Bottom Line A total cringe-fest, and that’s a compliment.
Venue: Toronto International Film Festival (Midnight Madness)
Cast: Paul Rudd, Tim Robinson,, Kate Mara, Jack Dylan Grazer
Director-screenwriter: Andrew DeYoung
1 hour 40 minutes
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