‘Adult Best Friends’ Review: A Sporadically Funny Comedy About Growing Up and Moving On
variety.comMurtada Elfadl If a mid-life crisis happens in one’s fifties, what is a crisis in your thirties called? Perhaps it’s just permanent adolescence. “Adult Best Friends” mines its comedy from the friction caused when one of a pair of best friends moves into adulthood and gets married, while the other remains stuck.
Doing double duty as the film’s screenwriters and stars, Katie Corwin and Delaney Buffett craft a believable friendship for their lead characters (also called Katie and Delaney) and write some decent dialogue about why people would or would not marry.
Something is missing, however — the film ends up being more dull than hilarious. Katie and Delaney have been friends since they met at a sleepover in their pre-teens.
When Katie’s sweet boyfriend John (Mason Gooding) proposes, she finds it hard to tell her pal. Delaney — who hasn’t ever liked any of Katie’s boyfriends — parties hard, sleeps with whomever she pleases, and has no plans to grow up or settle down.
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