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BOSTON PREMIERE with GORMAN BECHARD
2009, USA, 94 min.
Director: Gorman Bechard (in attendance)
Screenwriter: Gorman Bechard, Ashley McGarry
Cast: Margaret Laney, Alex Brown, Brendan Bradley, Anne Peterson
Friends (With Benefits) is a feature-length romantic comedy for all those allergic to romance, and for all who have come of (sexual) age in this cynical time of hook-ups, break-ups, and serial amour.
Meet Chloe and Owen: best buds since their sandbox days. Now, in med school as they attempt to balance the weight of their studies, his job, her band, their parents, their friends (their sanity), they find little time for relationship… but lots of time for desire.
One fateful day, a brave Owen proposes the “perfect” solution: Friends (read: no messy relationship stuff)… with benefits (read: insanely messy sex stuff). “Perfect,” that is if the two hadn’t always been secretly in love with one another.
So what does happen when two close friends decide to secretly blur the lines dividing friendship and relationship and the rest of their tight knit group of friends finds out? The answer: complications arise. A lot of complications. In fact, to quote their therapist, “It’s brought down empires; imagine what it can do to a group of friends”.
Friends (With Benefits) is a tale of sexual identity and true love; of controversy and relationships redefined: a thinking person’s romantic comedy (with belly-laughs).
PLAYING WITH
Caniformia
Jessica Stevens
11 min.
What if your best friend was a bimbo and your lover was a bear?
