Movie
Kicking and Screaming
Overview
After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding instead to move in with several friends, all of whom can't quite work up the inertia to escape their university's pull. Nobody wants to make any big decisions that would radically alter his life, yet none of them wants to end up like Chet, the professional student who tends bar and is in his tenth year of university studies.
Details
- Release date
- 1995-10-06
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Castleberg Productions, Sandollar Productions, Trimark Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Josh Hamilton as Grover
- Olivia D'Abo as Jane
- Chris Eigeman as Max
- Parker Posey as Miami
- Jason Wiles as Skippy
- Cara Buono as Kate
- Carlos Jacott as Otis
- Elliott Gould as Grover's Dad
- Eric Stoltz as Chet
- Samuel Gould as Pete
- Catherine Kellner as Gail
- Jonathan Baumbach as Professor
Crew
- Noah Baumbach - Director
- Noah Baumbach - Writer
- Noah Baumbach - Story
- Oliver Berkman - Story
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