2012 · comedy · drama · romance
Friends with Kids
Directed by Jennifer Westfeldt1h 40m2012
In the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a couple. By becoming "time-share" parents, they reason, they can experience the joys of parenthood without significantly curbing their personal freedom. However, when Julie and Jason both become involved with others, they discover that they secretly harbor romantic feelings for each other.
Our read: Friends with Kids (2012) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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- gentle
- intimate
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