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Kicking and Screaming (1995) [The Criterion Collection #349] [ReUp]

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Kicking and Screaming (1995) [The Criterion Collection #349] [ReUp]

Kicking and Screaming (1995)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | Cover + Booklet | 01:36:29 | 8,04 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subtitles: English SDH
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance | The Criterion Collection #349

Director: Noah Baumbach
Stars: Josh Hamilton, Eric Stoltz, Samuel Gould

Paralyzed by postgraduation ennui, a group of college friends remain on campus, patching together a community for themselves in order to deny the real-world futures awaiting them. Academy Award–nominated screenwriter Noah Baumbach’s hilarious and touching directorial debut was one of the highlights of the American independent film scene of the nineties, speaking directly to a generation of adults-to-be unable to reconcile their hermetic educational experience with workaday responsibility, and posing the eternal question, where do we go from here? Stingingly funny and incisive, Baumbach’s breakthrough features endlessly quotable dialogue, delivered by a stellar ensemble cast.

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Writer-director Noah Baumbach entered the arena with 1995's Kicking and Screaming, an amusing collegiate comedy with clever dialogue and mixed ambitions. Despite a few commercial compromises, the endearing young cast pokes through with the occasional fresh moment, and the film is consistently likeable.

Kicking and Screaming (1995) [The Criterion Collection #349] [ReUp]

The talented Noah Baumbach is the offspring of eastern literary luminaries. His Kicking and Screaming obviously commanded development attention for its non-stop witticisms and "inspired observations." The disc box is decorated with them: "We stay together out of fear"; "I'm nostalgic for conversations I had yesterday," and "Why do you need more friends?" In many ways Baumbach's dialogues are perfectly suited to his slightly narcissistic young men, who criticize each other while casting their own aimlessness in romantic nihilism. They haven't achieved anything: "Keats was dead before he was twenty-four." Each sees himself as the star of an unappreciated drama: "I've inherited a tragedy." And they invent self-defeating excuses for their dead-end habits: "There's food in the beer."

Kicking and Screaming (1995) [The Criterion Collection #349] [ReUp]

The boys' personal argot forms a group identity stronger than Skippy's proposed club, the Cougars. Kids love to think they've invented a meaningful society through shared verbal short cuts ("Ding!") and Baumbach captures this beautifully. Actually, the boys are suffering from the debilitating disease that could be called acute self-awareness. A standard greeting is the question "Did you beat off today?", acknowledging the pointlessness of their petty concerns. They pass the time with purposely inane quizzes: "Name all the Friday the 13th Movies."

Kicking and Screaming (1995) [The Criterion Collection #349] [ReUp]

The acknowledged culprit in this malaise is the cozy womb of college life. The boys are unprepared to stop being students, to lose their position as Seniors. They can no longer cherry-pick from younger classes brimming with available girls. Even when they make sane choices in girlfriends, they fumble the ball. Grover's Jane opts for adventure and new experience right after graduation, which leaves Grover scrambling for lame reasons why she shouldn't go to Prague. Otis lives in a state of arrested development, as indicated when Max notices that he wears pajama tops during the day. Yet Otis and the others have no trouble picking up girls. Max is stymied when a potential date calls him "Old Man River" because he's 22! Max falters, taking up the bedroom invitation of Skippy's girl Miami. Like most of the women associated with the group, Miami knows the score: "All you guys are in love with each other." When Max comes up against a real challenge, the un-schooled, crowbar-wielding Kate, he's at least aware that he's experiencing life instead of watching it go by.

Kicking and Screaming (1995) [The Criterion Collection #349] [ReUp]

Kicking and Screaming isn't perfection; sometimes it seems like a laid-back collegiate version of the old TV sitcom Cheers, with young kids that are far too articulate about their place in the cosmos. This is perhaps a natural thing when the author is an extremely articulate writer capable of embellishing his real-life experiences on a higher literary level. But much of the writing comes off as sitcom quality filler, place-holders for insights that might tie Baumbach's world together. Grover has the "I don't want to hear about my parents' sex life" speech with his father (Elliott Gould), and it just seems to be marking time. The movie creates a believable state of entropy for its likeable characters, and only breaks it at the end for a welcome but hardly creative sentimental touch. Grover finally makes a positive romantic move, which gives us a memorable and endearing image of Ms. d'Abo smiling while playing with her orthodontic retainer. Unfortunately, it seems like something that should be happening at the end of Act 1, not the finale.

Kicking and Screaming (1995) [The Criterion Collection #349] [ReUp]

Kicking and Screaming labors under commercial necessities. The distributor is Trimark, which in 1995 also released Biohazard: The Alien Force and Leprechaun 3. Trimark would seem to have insisted on a couple of dorm scenes with nudity. The present trend in movies is for either exploitative raunch films with nudes galore, or 'quality' comedies that respect women by keeping them covered up (how tasteful). Baumbach's film is caught between two poles. It certainly compares favorably with the previous year's Sleep with Me, a 20-something serio-comedy from the same producer but lacking a commercial hook. We know that Baumbach didn't have artistic freedom because he scrambled at the last minute to write in the Eric Stoltz character to give Trimark an exploitable star. That's funny, because Stoltz was in Sleep with Me and the film received only the thinnest of releases. The good news about Kicking and Screaming is that the compromise barely shows.

Kicking and Screaming (1995) [The Criterion Collection #349] [ReUp]

Noah Baumbach's film jump-started several young acting careers. For many of the talented folk on display Kicking and Screaming is their first screen work, and Chris Eigeman's fortunes have taken an upswing of late as well.
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Kicking and Screaming (1995) [The Criterion Collection #349] [ReUp]
Kicking and Screaming (1995) [The Criterion Collection #349] [ReUp]

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Noah Baumbach
- New Dolby Digital 5.1 audio remix
- New video interview with writer-director Baumbach
- New video conversations featuring Baumbach and cast members Chris Eigeman, Josh Hamilton, and Carlos Jacott
- Rare deleted scenes
- Conrad and Butler in “Conrad and Butler Take a Vacation,” a short film from 2000, directed by Baumbach and starring Kicking and Screaming cast members Carlos Jacott and John Lehr
- Brief 1995 interviews with Baumbach and the cast, originally broadcast on IFC
- Theatrical trailer
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Booklet: A new essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum

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