While We're Young
While We're Young (2014)
Directed by Noah Baumbach
Genres - Comedy Drama | Sub-Genres - Comedy of Manners | Release Date - Mar 27, 2015 (USA - Limited) | Run Time - 97 min. | Countries - USA | MPAA Rating - R
Synopsis by Perry Seibert
Noah Baumbach's comedy-drama While We're Young stars Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts as Josh and Cornelia, a childless New York married couple in their mid-forties. As their other friends all start having children, the duo gravitate toward a young hipster couple named Jamie (Adam Driver) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried). He's an aspiring documentary filmmaker, a vocation Josh already has. Soon, the older couple begin enjoying the energy they feel hanging out with the younger generation, but eventually Josh begins to suspect his new best friend might not be as straightforward and trustworthy as he thought. While We're Young screened at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Josh: He blows it down.
Cornelia: Yeah, but what happens in the middle?
Josh: I keep wanting to do 'This little piggy went to the market, but that's with the toes'.
- Amanda Seyfried remarked that at age 28, when she filmed the role, she actually found it a challenge to play Darby and that she related more to the older characters.
- Darby and Josh make a joke about the movie Rosemary's Baby (1968). Charles Grodin, who plays Cornelia's father, Leslie, played Rosemary's first gynecologist, Dr. Hill, in Rosemary's Baby.
- The confrontation between Josh and Jamie was shot the way it is because Noah Baumbach wanted it to almost be like a confrontation between Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty.
- Peter Yarrow, who plays the documentary subject of Ben Stiller's character, is better-known as the "Peter" in the seminal 1960s folk group Peter Paul & Mary. This is his first acting role in a movie. Coincidentally, Yarrow's classic song "Puff, the Magic Dragon" featured in the soundtracks of Stiller's films Meet the Parents (2000) and Meet the Fockers (2004).
- Charles Grodin's character, Leslie Breitbart, is portrayed as a famous documentary filmmaker. In Leslie's apartment, there are fake Criterion Collection DVDs of films "directed" by Leslie, custom-created for this film.
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