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Highball

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Highball
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1hr 20min
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2000
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Lions Gate
Synopsis: Over the course of one year, a group of friends gathers for three parties (a birthday dinner party, a Halloween costume party, and a New Year's celebration) at the Brooklyn apartment of a young married couple (Chris Reed, Lauren Katz). Friendships and relationships are formed, dissolved, and re-formed amidst witty banter.

~ Keith Phipps, All Movie Guide

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Noah Baumbach's outstanding, sadly overlooked debut Kicking and Screaming opens with a graduation party that allows the writer/director to introduce each cast member by dropping in and out of conversations, which serves as both an effective exposition device and an introduction to Baumbach's clever dialogue. Highball essentially tries to stretch that scene to feature length, with mixed but occasionally ... Full Review
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