VERY 90s era psuedo intellectual upper middle class college horse dung. Tedious in the extreme. Scene after scene of dialogue that i'll bet the writer thought was clever. The actors do what they can, but the material they are working with is flatter than paper. Possibly seeing it, at it's time, as a college aged kid might have made it bearable but 30 years of hindsight has not been kind to this movie. A post 9/11 would have instantly exposed this for the trite naval gazing material it is. The subsequent descent of the college as an institution of learning puts an exclamation point on how vacuous the era..... my era truly was. For honesty sake i'll say that i'm not much of a fan oh Noah Baumbach. On occasion he rises to the level clever but never competent. This movie is 90 minutes of the kind of class based non-problems faced by people who would be right at home on episodes of Friends were they not so dour. I'll be generous an give it a 2/10 some movies are simply of their era and of an age. This is both.
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