Un grupo de chicos se quedan en su universidad durante meses después de la graduación, continuando una vida muy parecida a la de antes de graduarse.Un grupo de chicos se quedan en su universidad durante meses después de la graduación, continuando una vida muy parecida a la de antes de graduarse.Un grupo de chicos se quedan en su universidad durante meses después de la graduación, continuando una vida muy parecida a la de antes de graduarse.
- Premios
- 2 nominaciones en total
- Pete
- (as Sam Gould)
- Friedrich
- (as Chris Reed)
- Bouncer
- (as David Deluise)
Opiniones destacadas
We learn a few key things from Kicking and Screaming. One. Noah Baumbach is a smart guy who knows how to write and has a keen sense of reality and what makes us human. Two. He may be too smart to make a coherent and entertaining story about human interaction and psychology. And three. Having so many things on one's plate is overwhelming and it causes a film to lose all sense of purpose. Baumbach tackles a lot of subjects with Kicking and Screaming, but they sort of all run into each other and get tangled up with one another that this film loses its direction starts to feel less and less like a film and more like an astute psychological study that lacks any real emotion.
I feel like the characters in Kicking and Screaming aren't as much human as they are simply vehicles for Baumbach to exemplify offbeat quirks and complex relationships. He's created very diverse and very smart characters, but they don't connect on the emotional level that is necessary for this film to work. Baumbach obviously knows what he is doing with this film but he barely misses the mark, only by throwing in too many quirks and too many off kilter personality traits that turn these characters into test subjects instead of humans. That being said, I enjoyed this film for its intelligence and integrity, but the flaws are there and they hold back the film from being really great. Kicking and Screaming would make a great psychological research paper that detailed hypothetical situations and closely examined the human interaction in these situations but, as a film, it lacks the extra step that makes the art of cinema something more than a research paper can accomplish.
You can't diss anybody in this film for what they accomplish. I have lots of respect for the keen awareness Noah Baumbach displays about life in this film. It is certainly a good film and it is smarter than the average dribble we see today, but it's far from perfect. It isn't something I would watch again, but I don't regret checking it out for its fascinating sophisticated qualities.
Ted's Grade: A-
The characters overall are not very likeable, they all have their issues but it's hard to sympathize with any of them, because they are selfish and self-centered among other disruptive qualities. So, two of this films most important elements such as the writing and the characters try to sustain the film that ultimately fails to deliver a satisfying product.
Nevertheless, it's an acceptable effort from Noah Baumbach, but he has many better outlets than this.
Eric Stoltz is very amusing as the eternal student/bartender. A friend of mine is particularly fond of the Otis character, the clown of the film and a master of deflated monosyllabic responses (check the same actor out in Mr. Jealousy - he has wonderful mastery of the trapped upperclass dork). Josh Hamilton does a great job expressing idealized romantic yearning, especially in the last scene of the film, which I won't give away but which is familiarly and achingly bittersweet.
If you're a stickler for realism you might say to yourself, "Yeah right, like these people just graduated from college, they're all in their 30s." If you're the type that can look past the fact that Olivia D'Abo played an 18 year old 10 years ago on The Wonder Years then you'll be OK.
(And if you like Josh Hamilton and Parker Posey, check out House of Yes)
¿Sabías que…?
- TriviaThe film was almost accepted in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, but Noah Baumbach refused to cut 15 minutes as they requested, and the film was ultimately rejected.
- ErroresWhen Grover says "Shit, I wish I hadn't seen that" at the airport, his mark is clearly visible on the floor when he walks away.
- Citas
Max: I'm too nostalgic. I'll admit it.
Skippy: We graduated four months ago. What can you possibly be nostalgic for?
Max: I'm nostalgic for conversations I had yesterday. I've begun reminiscing events before they even occur. I'm reminiscing this right now. I can't go to the bar because I've already looked back on it in my memory... and I didn't have a good time.
- Bandas sonorasCecilia Ann
Written by Frosty Horton and Steve Hoffman
Performed by Pixies
Courtesy of 4AD/Elektra Entertainment
By arrangement with Warner Special Products
Selecciones populares
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Detalles
- Fecha de lanzamiento
- País de origen
- Idioma
- También se conoce como
- Pateando el tablero
- Locaciones de filmación
- Productoras
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Taquilla
- Total en EE. UU. y Canadá
- USD 718,490
- Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
- USD 19,497
- 8 oct 1995
- Total a nivel mundial
- USD 718,490
- Tiempo de ejecución
- 1h 36min(96 min)
- Color
- Mezcla de sonido
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.85 : 1