After learning that his terminally ill wife has six months to live, a man welcomes the support of his best friend who moves into their home to help out.
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Earnest, spare, grave and contemporary.
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- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Louisa Moore - Screen Zealotson TMDB · Mar 20213/10
2020 was a tough year and 2021 isn’t starting out much better, so it’s poor timing for a studio to release a tearjerker like “Our Friend.” Movies about terminal illness are never fun to watch, but this one is such a downer that it may serve as an unwanted depressant for even the most upbeat viewers. Based on an award-winning Esquire magazine article, the film tells the true story of journalist Matt Teague (Casey Affleck) and his actress wife Nicole (Dakota Johnson), who is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Seeing his best friend coping with a dying wife and struggling to be a good father to his two young daughters (Violet McGraw, Isabella Kai), Dane (Jason Segel) puts his own life on hold and moves in with Matt and Nicole to support them through the roughest of times. It’s a true gesture of steadfast friendship, with Dane standing by the family until the end. If this sounds like a bittersweet heartwarming story of devotion, it (mostly) is. The story is told in non-linear segments that travel through time and give us a glimpse of how things developed and how they eventually ended. The most horrific parts of Teague’s article are omitted from the film, with director Gabriela Cowperthwai
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Cast
- Dakota JohnsonNicole Teague
- Casey AffleckMatthew Teague
- Jason SegelDane Faucheux
- Cherry JonesFaith Pruett
- Jake OwenAaron
- Denée BentonCharlotte
- Gwendoline ChristieTeresa
- Reed DiamondPeter
- Isabella KaiMolly Teague
- Violet McGrawEvie Teague
Crew
- Gabriela CowperthwaiteDirector
- Brad IngelsbyScreenplay
- Joe AndersonDirector of Photography
- Rob SimonsenOriginal Music Composer
- Colin PattonEditor
- Michael A. PrussProducer
- Kevin J. WalshProducer
- Ryan StowellProducer
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