Kids these days
Lessons in movie marketing #5476: four of the cast of Friends With Kids featured in the highly successful Bridesmaids . Much of the advance publicity, eg an interview with Chris O'Dowd a while back, focused almost exclusively on this connection. Friends With Kids does not, however, share a writer, producer or directer with Bridesmaids , and its two leads are Adam Scott and Jennifer Westfeldt. They're tucked away on the right-hand side of the poster. Westfeldt and Scott play Julie and Jason, two thirtysomething best friends. Their other friends are two couples whose marriages seem to have gone sour after the introduction of children to proceedings. Julie and Jason then hit on the wizard wheeze of having a child together, giving them all the benefits of a family without the worry of a marriage to be potentially ruined. Yeah I know, what could possibly go wrong with that? Although this movie is pitched at a grown-up audience and contains dialogue that isn't merely ...