Review: Drinking Buddies

Saw this one last night. It's a nice little flick about the employees of a boutique brewery, mostly one in particular (played by Olivia Wilde) who is having troubles in love and trying to sort things out, and her male BFF who is having his own issues. It's purely a relationship movie, so nothing blows up, no F/X, aliens, or SWAT teams, etc...


As it turns out, it was a completely improvised movie as well, without any script. Presumably it had an outline but the actors all apparently just reacted in the scenes as their characters. I think it worked out well that way. There's real life overlapping dialog and interruptions and whatnot. It wasn't made as a comedy but it's quite funny in places because the situations are so humanly uncomfortable or embarrassing.


There's a lot of beer consumed, and apparently they were also drinking real beer during the movie as well, according to the interviews in the extras.


I must say that Oliva Wilde is one cute baby doll. A very unusual face, but it works. And she plays a very laid back, fun person in this movie, who I sort of could see being not unlike herself.