#477: Pain Pals, Pt. 2 — Friendship

The Next Picture Show

Telegraph Road Productions

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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We were admittedly a bit dubious going into this pairing, which was spoken into existence by writer-director Andrew DeYoung invoking THE MASTER when describing his new Tim Robinson/Paul Rudd comedy FRIENDSHIP, but it’s not the stretch we thought it would be. In fact, Paul Thomas Anderson’s discomfiting psychological drama proves such an interesting lens through which to view FRIENDSHIP’s discomfiting absurdist comedy that we move into Connections early, to discuss how each of these two films about lonely men at odds with their own reality bucks convention, not only in terms of narrative and character, but in style and structure as well. Then in Your Next Picture Show we give a glimpse of the episode that could have been if we had chosen the PTA film we went into FRIENDSHIP expecting to be reminded of (and still kind of were): PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE. Please share your thoughts about THE MASTER, FRIENDSHIP, or anything else in the world of film, by sending an email or voice memo to [email protected], or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Next Pairing: Alex Ross Perry’s PAVEMENTS and Todd Haynes’ I’M NOT THERE Intro: 00:00:00-00:01:57 Friendship discussion: 00:01:57-00:16:17 Friendship/The Master Connections: 00:16:17-00:48:01 Your Next Picture Show: 00:48:01-00:51:22 Next episode preview and goodbyes: 00:51:22-end Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.3	Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast
0:52.8	to a classic film the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Keith Thubes here again with Tasha Robinson and Scott Tobias.
1:00.4	Jeremy Koski will not be joining us. She was lasting somewhere in the tunnels under Detroit. In our last episode, we discussed the master of Paul Thomas Anderson's 2012 film depicting of a relationship between a troubled
1:11.9	World War II veteran and an erudite cult leader in the middle years of the 20th century.
1:17.2	We returned to that film because Andrew DeYoung, director of the new comedy friendship, has cited
1:21.4	it as a major influence. In friendship, Tim Robinson plays Craig Waterman, a marketing executive
1:26.8	whose specialties include making apps more addictive.
1:29.8	Though Craig and his wife, Tammy, played by Kate Mara, have recently dealt with Tammy's successful battle with cancer,
1:35.7	Craig seems blissfully removed from any red lights in his life might be less than perfect.
1:40.9	What's wrong with sitting in place every night and occasionally trying to coach your teenage
1:44.1	son, Stephen, played by Jacqueline Grazer, into seeing the new Marvel that's reportedly
1:49.0	driving people insane? Then Craig receives a package intended for his new neighbor, Austin Carmichael,
1:55.0	played by Paul Rudd, a local weatherman with a comb mustache and collection of historic artifacts,
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