2013 · comedy · drama · romance
Drinking Buddies
Directed by Joe Swanberg1h 30m2013
Weekend trips, office parties, late night conversations, drinking on the job, marriage pressure, biological clocks, holding eye contact a second too long… you know what makes the line between “friends” and “more than friends” really blurry? Beer.
Our read: Drinking Buddies (2013) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
- tender
- intimate
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