Mutual Appreciation

Name: Mutual Appreciation
Genre: Comedy
Released: September 1, 2006
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 84

2006

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Goodbye Cruel Releasing | Release Date: September 1, 2006 | Unrated

Summary: Alan (Rice), a musician whose band has just broken up, shows up in New York to pursue his burgeoning rock and roll career. He starts by searching for a drummer for a show he’s already lined up, and otherwise goes about the mechanics of self-promotion. He finds a champion in Sara (Lee), a radio DJ who sets her sights on a submissive butAlan (Rice), a musician whose band has just broken up, shows up in New York to pursue his burgeoning rock and roll career. He starts by searching for a drummer for a show he’s already lined up, and otherwise goes about the mechanics of self-promotion. He finds a champion in Sara (Lee), a radio DJ who sets her sights on a submissive but uninterested Alan -- and finds him a drummer. In his down time, Alan drinks and strategizes with his old friend Lawrence (Bujalski), a grad student, and Lawrence’s girlfriend Ellie (Clift), a journalist. Alan endeavors to keep his shoulder to the wheel, while Ellie finds herself compelled by him. The attraction is mutual, but both parties are reluctant to take a next step. (Goodbye Cruel Releasing)… Expand

Director: Andrew Bujalski

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 110 min

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Elizabeth Weitzman

Andrew Bujalski's considerable gifts begin with his deep appreciation of the miserable, hilarious awkwardness of real life. Read full review

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G. Allen Johnson

Bujalski's writing is so good, and every shot and edit seems exactly right. Hopefully, there will always be a place for a film like this on a theater screen, no matter the whims of the marketplace. Read full review

Scott Tobias

Bujalski's brand of stylized dialogue sounds genuinely fly-on-the-wall. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Particularly adept at chronicling the vague existential aimlessness of a segment of postcollege young adults, Bujalski manages to make his subjects seem simultaneously articulate and socially dunderheaded. Read full review

Jim Healy

One of Bujalski's gifts is his ability to give every part, no matter how big or small, a sense of intelligence and life that extends beyond the frame and running time, and in this his work recalls the best of both Mike Leigh and Richard Linklater. Read full review

Eric Campos

Authentic and hilarious. This film sparks with a natural comic rhythm. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

The film's mood and style are pitched somewhere between '60s American indie and French New Wave and, as you watch these people, they seem painfully, amusingly on-target. They may irritate you a little, but that's the right response. Read full review

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MarcH.

Sep 1, 2006

The filmmakers took a risk and again it proves that only when you take risks as a filmmaker you can create something outstanding.