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While teaming up with his editor on cutting his film, Josh comes across footage for Jamie's film, finding evidence that suggests the meeting with Kent was actually staged. Finding him, Kent reveals that he was really friends with Darby, not Jamie, and that he was contacted by Jamie weeks before their
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Josh attends a party for a screening of Jamie's film, which is met far more positively by Leslie and the hedge fund investor. A jealous Josh argues with Cornelia over Jamie's success, and they separate. Josh meets up with Darby, who is sick of Jamie's increasingly self-centered attitude and tells him
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investor with the concept of his intellectual documentary. He goes to Leslie for a second opinion. When Leslie's criticisms and suggestions are brought down by Josh, they get into an argument over Josh and Cornelia's inability to have children, as well as Josh calling himself a disappointment to him.
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couple who invite him and Cornelia out to dinner. Jamie claims to be a fan of Josh's work and the works of his accomplished documentary filmmaker father-in-law, Leslie Breitbart. Josh is immediately awestruck by Jamie and Darby's non-conservative outlook on life as he and Cornelia begin spending more
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Middle-aged couple Josh and Cornelia Srebnick are filmmakers living in a shaky marriage in New York City. Josh has spent the last 10 years struggling on the post-production of his documentary film about leftist intellectual Ira Mandelstam while not letting his producer wife help him with the project.
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Josh confronts Jamie in private at the event, admonishing him for compromising the truth and genuineness of his story for dramatic purposes. Josh forces Jamie to admit the truth to Leslie, who excuses it, saying that it's a good story regardless of the fabrication. Defeated, Josh admits to Leslie he
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ceremony where a hallucinating Cornelia kisses Jamie while Jamie receives Josh's approval in helping with the production of his film. Cornelia agrees to produce the film. Jamie and Josh find the old friend, Kent Arlington, who is in the hospital after a suicide attempt. Josh and Jamie discover that
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wrote: "Though While We’re Young is primarily a comedy—and a very funny one at that, managing to be both blisteringly of-the-moment and classically zany in the same breath—Baumbach has bitten off several serious topics, for which laughter serves as the most agreeable way to engage."
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An aspiring filmmaker himself, Jamie talks with Josh about their projects, including Josh's own documentary. This inspires Jamie to make a film about connecting with an old high school friend that he found on
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shoot. Capturing his confession on camera, Josh goes to Jamie and Darby to confront him only to discover that a fed-up Darby is moving out and that Jamie is at the tribute celebrating Leslie at
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and grossed $ 1,438,384, ranking number 12. The film eventually grossed $ 7,587,485 domestically, more than all of Baumbach's previous films in the United States box office.
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and his wife, a couple in their 40s, who develop a friendship with a couple in their 20s. The film was screened in the Special Presentations section of the
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wrote: "If While We’re Young hadn’t gone quite so broad at the finish line, it would be a contender for my favorite movie of the still-young year."
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released it in the United States on March 27, 2015. The film went on to gross more than any of Baumbach's previous films at the US box office.
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finds writer-director Noah Baumbach delivering some of his funniest lines through some of his most relatable characters." On
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on March 27, 2015, and earned $ 227,688, ranking number 24 in the box office that weekend. On April 17, the film was given a
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Kent was involved in a civilian massacre during an Army tour in Afghanistan, creating an even bigger story for Jamie's film.
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After finishing a lecture at the college where he teaches, Josh is approached by Jamie and Darby Massey, a young
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score of 77 out of 100, based on reviews from 44 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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about Cornelia kissing Jamie. Josh confronts Cornelia the next morning and denounces Jamie.
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was right about the edits needed on his film. Outside, Josh and Cornelia reconcile.
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While pitching his own film, Josh is dismayed when he cannot engage a potential
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called it a "mostly engaging but only fitfully inspired serio-comedy."
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One year later, Josh and Cornelia drive to the airport for a flight to
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appears as an MC at an event celebrating Leslie Breitbart, and
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acquired distribution rights to the film for $ 4 million.
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The film was spotted shooting on September 17, 2013, in
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The film opens with a quote from Henrik Ibsen's play
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Noah Baumbach
Scott Rudin
Eli Bush
Ben Stiller
Naomi Watts
Adam Driver
Amanda Seyfried
Charles Grodin
Adam Horovitz
Jennifer Lame
James Murphy
Scott Rudin Productions
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comedy-drama
Noah Baumbach
Ben Stiller
Naomi Watts
Adam Driver
Amanda Seyfried
New York
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