Adult Best Friends

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Adult Best Friends

At the core of Delaney Buffett’s delightful first feature Adult Best Friends, which has its premiere at Tribeca, as is rather evident with a character that they have known for years, is the instantly recognizable duo that is Delaney (Buffett) and Katie (Katie Corwin). They met in seventh grade when they were hiding in the bathroom during a party. Old images, family movies, and screen recordings of FaceTime calls perfectly illustrate that they have been your friends since childhood and have been friends since then.

The fact that Delaney and Katie still maintain contact today raises the question as to why both younger women have changed. There are cracks, while invisible people have changed into different types of individuals. Married to her boyfriend (Mason Gooding) and not needing to drink the night away encourages her to rise early for a pottery class. Delaney is more rational and rules less on protocol or default, using her guidance. Sharing an apartment with a ‘spiky’ friend (Cazzie David) who is over hook-up culture and hardly ever in the appropriate disposition in today’s world. Her mood swings and jumbled days make Hannah Horvath’s routine look calm. Similar to Pamela Adlon’s Babes, Adult Best Friends is primarily about growing up and the accompanying complexities, dullness, and weirdness that changing relationships brings.

During her own plot and character development process, which she did in real-life best friend Corwin, Buffett settles down into a genre she is quite familiar with ? a pleasant but underdeveloped oceanfront romp.

Adult Best Friends takes us through one weekend when Katie decides to take Delaney for a surprise vacation at the beach. The objective is to gradually bring up the engagement situation to her friend who does not handle massive changes well. From off-screen talks where Katie’s fiancé, John (Gooding), and older brother, Henry (Zachary Quinto), inform us of the stability of this friendship that dependency which is where Katie always submits to what Delaney wants, it’s quite a lopsided deal for both the ladies who it appears have not been quite truthful to themselves or each other closer for. As they set off the car towards the beach, the exact location of which Adult Best Friends is set, a tense silence resonates among them.

The film hinges on the palpable chemistry that exists between the two leading characters. Given that Benny and Corwin, who play with Ilana Glazer and Michelle Buteau Babes seem to understand the nuances of the role. The warmth between the characters is not pretending though it is rather lightly scripted.

Such verisimilitude makes the arguments and the emotional or climactic atmosphere of the movie worth caring about.

In Adult Best Friends, the action is located in a seaside town that is considered to be a dwelling place between what has been and what’s to come. Katie attempts to remap their adulthood to that particular coastal place. Instead of a typical fraternity-friendly hotel the Pelican Palace the two of them take private accommodation and opt out of keg-stands style activities. On the contrary, Delaney stands on the imperfections of time and does not accept Katie’s order to tone down their weekend. She’s looking for plastic cups and stands at bars long enough to witness closing time.

Because of these contradicting motives, there is no doubt the fantasy holiday was never on the cards. When Katie and Delaney get to their place of rental, foul-mouthed wallowing host (Cory Walls) is already there who has no parties, no alcohol, and no noise as per her rules.

A majority of their weekend is spent with a rowdy bachelor party, which comprises a mellow groom (Connor Hines), his future brother-in-law (Benjamin Norris), an eccentric tech millionaire (Michael Rowland), and their hunt-seeking best friend (Carmen Christopher). Katie and Delaney also bump into a college friend they consider obnoxious (Miki Ishikawa) along with her annoying spouse (Alexander Hodge). Such encounters serve to remind the duo of the fundamental differences that threaten to stifle their relationship and whether or not they can be resolved.

Adult Best Friends tackles Katie and Delaney’s growing pains and the troubles therein, with heaps of laughter. Much like in Taylor Garron’s As of Yet (2021), Adult Best Friends is also a presentation of all the funniest parts of Buffett’s cast. Highlights of Delaney not so enthusiastically engaging in her team’s Zoom calls (Casey Wilson, Owen Thiele) poke fun at the absurdity of current work ethics. On the other hand, when Katie goes for dinner with Henry and his wife (Heather Mazur), she pokes fun at a culture of mass reliance on ‘therapy speak’. Admittedly, even with broad strokes such as a shift in dynamics from the examination of rootbound friendships to the scope of self-directed living, the story never drags due to the quick and witty writing. We find ourselves cheering on Katie and Delaney and wishing them their own brand of happiness ever after.

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