Kicking and Screaming

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For the 2005 comedy film, see Kicking & Screaming.

Kicking and Screaming
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Directed by	Noah Baumbach
Produced by	Joel Castleberg
Written by	Noah Baumbach Oliver Berkman
Starring	Josh Hamilton Samuel Gould Catherine Kellner Jonathan Baumbach
Music by	Will Baum Phil Marshall
Cinematography	Steven Bernstein
Distributed by	Trimark Pictures Inc.
Release date(s)	October 4, 1995 (U.S. release)
Running time	96 min.
Language	English
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Kicking and Screaming (1995) is a film by Noah Baumbach about a group of college graduates who refuse to move on with their lives, each in his own peculiar way. The film, which starred Josh Hamilton, Chris Eigeman, Carlos Jacott, and featured Eric Stoltz, Olivia d'Abo and Parker Posey, premiered in 1995 at the prestigious New York Film Festival to critical acclaim. Baumbach was chosen as one of Newsweek's "Ten New Faces of 1996". The film appeared in several "Top Ten" lists. It later became traditional at Vassar College that graduating seniors should watch Kicking and Screaming. The long awaited "Criterion Collection" DVD was released August 22, 2006 in the U.S.

[edit] Cast

Josh Hamilton — Grover
Olivia d'Abo — Jane
Carlos Jacott — Otis
Chris Eigeman — Max
Eric Stoltz — Chet
Jason Wiles — Skippy
Parker Posey — Miami
Elliott Gould — Grover's Dad
Marissa Ribisi — Charlotte
Dean Cameron — Zach
Kaela Dobkin — Audra
Cara Buono — Kate
Noah Baumbach — Danny
Elliott Cho — Byoung-sun

[edit] Quotes from the film

Chet: If Plato is a fine red wine, then Aristotle is a dry martini.
Otis: Cool! A dictionary! I'm gonna look up blowjob.
Max: Is that a pajama top? Otis: No... yes.
Otis: There's also that dark side to the nose ring.
Chet: How do you make God laugh? Make a plan.
Max: What I used to able to pass off as a bad summer could now potentially turn into a bad life.
Jane: Overrated...you've never even been to Prague. Grover: Oh, I've been to Prague. (Janes stares at him) Well, I haven't been to Prague been to Prague, but I know that thing, that, "Stop shaving your armpits, read the Unbearable Lightness of Being, date a sculptor, now I know how bad American coffee is thing..." Jane: Beer. They have good beer there. Grover: "... how bad American beer is thing. (pause) How bad American beer is thing." Jane: Yeah, I heard you the first time.
Grover: I almost wore my goatee tonight. Wouldn't that have been embarrassing.
Kate: I'm going to be 17 tomorrow. Max: Wow, now you can read Seventeen Magazine and get all the references.
Otis: I put my hand in my mouth after I touched all of that money. Could that be bad? Max: Of course. That's how germs are spread.
Otis: It was arousing... violently arousing. Chet: Otis, did you even read the book? Otis: Yes... no.
Grover: Ok, the way I see it, if we were an old couple, dated for years, graduated, away from all these scholastic complications, and I reached over and kissed you, you wouldn't say a word, you'd be delighted, probably, but if I was to do that now it'd be quite forward, and if I did it the first time we ever met you probably would hit me. Jane: What do you mean? Grover: I just wish we were an old couple so I could do that.
Grover: I have to go sleep with a freshman. Max: Okay, me too.
Jane: Sometimes you can be such a child. Grover: Yeah, but if I was a child you'd find that endearing.
Skippy: I begged you not to get off Prozac.
Otis: I think I'm gonna switch back to briefs.
Max: Are you wearing mascara? Otis: No... yes.
Max: I'm too nostalgic. I'll admit it. Skippy: We graduated four months ago. What can you possibly be nostalgic for? Max: I'm nostalgic for conversations I had yesterday. I've begun reminiscing events before they even occur. I'm reminiscing this right now. I can't go to the bar because I've already looked back on it in my memory... and I didn't have a good time.
Max: I found myself writing 'wake up' and 'go to bed' in my day planner as if they are two different events.