| | | A Film By Noah Baumbach.
Features: DVD, Dolby, Digital Audio, English
Paralyzed with post-graduation 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 education 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.System Requirements:Running Time 96 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE
"There's plenty of wit..." Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
"The final affirmation of this romance is really an affirmation of Baumbach's talent..." Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
"...alive at the edges; it comes with a vibrant border of trenchant asides..." Rick Groen, The Globe and Mail
Editor's Note
A witty, New York-set talk-fest about a group of twentysomethings who, with college degrees and no prospects, lean on each other and a friendly local bartender in their quest for the meaning of life.
Plot Summary
A group of recent college graduates hover around campus unable to cut the umbilical cord of academic life.
| Features | A New Essay By Jonathan Rosenbaum | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Brief 1995 Interviews With Baumbach & The Cast, Originally Broadcast On IFC | | Conrad & Butler In Conrad & Butler Take A Vacation, A Short Film From 2000, Directed By Baumbach & Starring Kicking & Screaming Cast Members Carlos Jacott & John Lehr | | Interactive Menus | | New Video Conversations Featuring Baumbach & Cast Members Chris Eigeman, Josh Hamilton & Carlos Jacott | | New Video Interview With Writer-Director Baumbach | | New, Restored High-Definition Digital Transfer, Supervised & Approved By Director Noah Baumbach | | Original Theatrical Trailer | | Rare Deleted Scenes | | Scene Selection |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Kicking and Screaming Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 9/11/2006 11:21 PM | | Fans of Kicking and Screaming will be elated to know that it's finally available on DVD in a striking new digital transfer from the Criterion Collection. And no, this isn't the Will Ferrell/Robert Duvall soccer misfire. I'm talking about Noah Baumbach's wryly funny, quietly affecting directorial debut about postgraduate angst and romantic uncertainty among a tight-knit group of college friends. ...read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Image |
| Release Date: 8/15/2006 |
| Running Time: 96 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1995 | | Catalog ID: 1647DDVD | | UPC: 00715515019828 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Memorable Quotes| "Who would you rather be stranded on a deserted island with, MacNeil or Lehrer?" ---- first line of dialogue. |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...[A] wryly comic mood piece....Scenes move from hurt to resigned laughter and ring poignantly true..." 09/21/1995 p.90Entertainment Weekly
"...[The dialogue] scales the heights of post-Salinger acidity and provides an element of charming pathos..." -- Rating: B 04/12/1996 p.76 Variety
"...An easy, low-key tone, with nicely framed shots and subtle camera movements....Baumbach draws good performances from his cast..." 10/02/1995 Los Angeles Times
"...Baumbach surely does make these characters, all of whom are impeccably acted, absolutely real....Baumbach builds unobtrusively to a knock-your-socks-off finish that allows KICKING AND SCREAMING to conclude on its strongest note..." 10/25/1995 p.F1 Chicago Sun-Times
"...[The film has] a good eye and a terrific ear..." 11/10/1995 p.43 Premiere
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[T]he balance is introspective, goofy, sharp, and every bit as relevant at the beginning of this century as it was at the end of the last decade." 10/01/2006 p.99 ReelViews 7 of 10
The characters are all pretty likable, and it's not too hard to sympathize with their situation -- at least until their social paralysis becomes irritating. But Kicking and Screaming is essentially a film of moments. Much of the dialogue is crisp, and there are several individual scenes that work to near-perfection (most notably the flashbacks that detail the building of Grover and Jane's relationship), but the connecting material is weak. Above all, the movie comes to a conclusion without a sense of closure. - James Berardinelli
Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
I enjoyed the movie, perhaps because I could identify with the characters: I like people who talk interestingly, who have read books, who appreciate verbal wit, who look dubiously at establishment assumptions. I like people who know what is meant by "the establishment," because to know it is to suspect it. I liked it that one of the film's characters writes a short story and another character describes him as "the bastard child of Raymond Chandler," and everyone knew what that meant. - Roger Ebert
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