Kicking and Screaming

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Overview

Inspired by the advent of Seattle's grunge music sound and popular films such as Slacker 1991 and Singles 1992, the Generation X comedy-drama was born. Typified by characters in their early twenties sharing an abundance of education, a lack of career direction, stunted romantic aspirations and an obsession with popular culture, one of the better examples of the genre was Kicking and Screaming. Josh Hamilton stars as Grover, a recent college graduate and aspiring writer depressed over the departure of his ...
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Inspired by the advent of Seattle's grunge music sound and popular films such as Slacker 1991 and Singles 1992, the Generation X comedy-drama was born. Typified by characters in their early twenties sharing an abundance of education, a lack of career direction, stunted romantic aspirations and an obsession with popular culture, one of the better examples of the genre was Kicking and Screaming. Josh Hamilton stars as Grover, a recent college graduate and aspiring writer depressed over the departure of his girlfriend Jane Olivia d'Abo for a fellowship in Prague. Josh's best friends are in a similar predicament. Skippy Jason Wiles is a classic slacker couch potato still attending classes despite having graduated, while the philosophical Max Chris Eigeman and Otis Carlos Jacott, a mechanical engineer, both remain unemployed. Tenth-year student Chet Eric Stoltz, who works at a local bar and has still not finished his education, serves as a cautionary tale for the four unmotivated pals. Kicking and Screaming was the debut of writer and director Noah Baumbach and the first of several cinematic collaborations between him and actors Eigeman and Stoltz.
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Anyone who has ever gone through four years of college, then wished it would last for at least four more, will find themselves nodding along with Noah Baumbach's highly perceptive Kicking and Screaming. The title gets at four friends' extreme reluctance to move into adulthood, but the film is a lot less zany than the title suggests -- and thankfully, there are very few of the obnoxious stereotypes viewers have come to expect from films dealing with college social life. Instead, it's more of an intellectual cataloguing of these characters' recent experiences, which inescapably dominate their thoughts, since they still live in the town where they just attended college, still mopily haunting the bar where they made so many of the memories from which they must now divorce themselves, just because they've collected that diploma. Perhaps due to the presence of the singular Christopher Eigeman, frequent denizen of the films of Whit Stillman, Kicking and Screaming feels a bit like an homage to that director's work, if a little less maturely scripted. Each character has funny issues to resolve, and there are good performances to that end by Eric Stoltz, Parker Posey, Carlos Jacott, and Jason Wiles. But the backbone of the film is the wistful romance, recalled in flashbacks that appear in reverse chronological order, between Josh Hamilton and Olivia D'Abo. That she chose to go to Prague, forsaking a relationship with Hamilton's Grover, is already known at the outset. This makes their innocent first meeting -- seen only toward the end, with D'Abo decked out preciously in post-adolescent braces -- all the more poignant.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 10/14/1997
  • UPC: 031398667131
  • Original Release: 1995

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  • Source: VIDMARK / TRIMARK
  • Format: VHS

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Josh Hamilton Grover
Olivia D'Abo Jane
Carlos Jacott Otis
Christopher Eigeman Max
Eric Stoltz Chet
Parker Posey Miami
Jason Wiles Skippy
Elliott Gould Grover's Dad
Noah Baumbach
Jonathan Baumback
Cara Buono Kate
Dean Cameron Zach
Peter Czernin Lester
David DeLuise Bouncer
Solier Fagundez Stunt Knight #2
Sam Gould Pete
Jason S. Kassin Freddy
Catherine Kellner Gail
John Lehr Louis
Chris Reed Friedrich
Perrey Reeves Amy
Marissa Ribisi Charlotte
Eliza Roberts Josselyn
Richard Tacchino Singing Freshman #2
Sal Viscuso Bar Teacher
Technical Credits
Noah Baumbach Director, Screenwriter
Michael J. Allowitz Asst. Director
Mark Amin Producer
Carol Baum Executive Producer
Steven Bernstein Cinematographer
Jason Blum Associate Producer
Joel Castleberg Producer
Mary Jane Fort Costumes/Costume Designer
Sandy Gallin Producer
J. Kathleen Gibson Editor
Phillip B. Goldfine Co-producer
Andrew Hersh Co-producer
Ellie Kanner Casting
Jeremy Kramer Associate Producer
Phil Marshall Score Composer
Dan Whifler Production Designer
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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    Best Movie Ever!

    This is literally my favorite movie of all time. It's just so quotable! "Are you wearing mascara?" "No...yes".

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 10, 2003

    Dark and Intelligent

    For anyone that went to college in the 90's, this movie hits right at home. Dark humor and intelligence cover this movie from start to finish. Go Cougars. To understand the last statement, you need to watch the movie.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 6, 2003

    Why is there no DVD?

    the quintessential college grad film (unless you majored in business, teaching or other job on demand degrees). the anxiety, the self-deprication, the fear of the future is all there and in riotously funny form (every line in the movie is an allusive joke).

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 24, 2003

    no dvd?

    Terrific film. The fact that you can't get this title on DVD is beyond belief!

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