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Cast

Ben Stiller
as Josh

Naomi Watts
as Cornelia

Amanda Seyfried
as Darby

Adam Driver
as Jamie

Maria Dizzia
as Marina

Dree Hemingway
as Tipper

Matthew Shear

Annie Baker

Quincy Tyler Bernstine

Adam Horovitz
as Fletcher

Matthew Maher
as Tim

Charles Grodin
as Leslie Breitbart

Peter Yarrow
as Ira Mandelstam

Bonnie Kaufman
as Ira's Wife

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• Oct 08, 2015

  A middle-aged couple befriends a younger couple and embarks on a documentary project. Writer/director Noah Baumbach fashions a simple but affecting story contrasting youth and mortality, balanced with a rather pedestrian story about the making of a documentary. It's clear that he wants to explore the former group of themes and occasionally digress into pedantry about the nature of art in documentary films, but While We're Young's primary strength is that it avoids too much didacticism. Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, and Amanda Seyfried all give excellent performances, but it's Stiller who most clearly understands Baumbach's unique blending of character development and thematic exploration, and his performance is the most honed -- probably the result of his experience in other Baumbach films. The film's resolution (its final moments, not the genius send-up of "the great detective's reveal") is far too pat for my tastes, but that doesn't besmirch the fact that so much of what came before hit all the right notes. Overall, while not all that profound, Baumbach proves to be an excellent story-teller and fascinating artist.
  Jim H Super Reviewer
• Sep 15, 2015

  Hitting Generation X right in their Millennials, Noah Baumbach's latest comedy hilariously asks Y of Middle Age as it winningly straddles the generational divide. Peter Pan never grew up, but - if he did - he hopefully wouldn't emulate Brooklyn hipsters. Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts, however, hilariously fall into this trap in an on-the-nose film that's deeper and more convoluted than at first glance. In fact, the film hands out some winning Reality Bytes to this twosome and anyone who pines for their younger days. One 40-something character - so genuinely tough on Stiller's new choice of friends at the outset - confesses that, despite admitting that having a baby imbues you with a deep-seeded love, the most important person in his life remains himself. It's a startling revelation that's not a revelation. In fact, it's honest and very human-one of the many truisms emerging here we hate to admit. In this R-rated comedy from Noah Baumbach (Margot at the Wedding, Greenberg), a middle-aged couple's (Stiller, Watts) career and marriage get overturned when a disarming young couple (Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried) enters their lives. It's smart if you fall outside of the age pools depicted here and it smarts if you fall within, especially if you're approaching the big Four Oh from either direction. Astute and unsettlingly honest observations get leveled by peers their own age as Stiller and Watts envy the perpetual motion and spontaneity of modern 20-somethings as well as their unbridled passion for vintage items (i.e., "everything that we threw away"). Both of them - young and young at heart - want what the other has, however, and each for selfish and ulterior motives. Baumbach drives this home with his usual insightful wit and in-the-moment camerawork. It's not his best, but doesn't fall far from his gold standard (The Squid and the Whale, Frances Ha). Bottom line: Over the Hill of Beans
  Jeff B Super Reviewer
• Aug 04, 2015

  Noah Baumbach is becoming an expert in this kind of quirky little movie centered on irritating characters who are seen as inexplicably adorable by the public (like Frances Ha), and even if it is funny and enjoyable, I really can't relate to most of its ideology that young people are idiots.
  Carlos M Super Reviewer
• Aug 02, 2015

  Muddled and pretentious. An uneven delivery that meanders and stalls.
  Chrisanne C Super Reviewer

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