“The Right Amount Of Weird”: Tim Robinson, Paul Rudd & Andrew DeYoung Talk Surreal TIFF Comedy ‘Friendship’ And The Paul Thomas Anderson Pic That Served As Inspiration
deadline.comAfter taking the internet by storm in recent years with his Emmy-winning sketch comedy series I Think You Should Leave, Tim Robinson has found his first lead film role in Friendship, a surreal buddy comedy co-starring Paul Rudd that’s making its world premiere tonight in the Midnight Madness section of the Toronto Film Festival.
Tonally familiar to anyone who’s a fan of Robinson’s, with its socially awkward characters, offbeat dialogue (“It’s not trespassing, it’s adventure”) and bizarro bits of slapstick, the film follows Craig Waterman (Robinson), a suburbanite disconnected from his wife (Kate Mara), who sees no reason to change his life or make new friends…until weatherman Austin (Rudd) moves into the neighborhood.
Mysterious yet friendly, macho but vulnerable, Austin transforms everything for Craig, until his obsessive and childlike nature threatens to ruin the friendship, and possibly everything else in his life.
At one point a writer and performer for Saturday Night Live, Robinson has since Friendship reteamed with DeYoung — a TV veteran making his feature directorial debut — on HBO pilot The Chair Company.
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