"The funniest thing I've seen in my entire life."—Esther Zuckerman, GQ
"It’s high praise to say that the film feels like an extended episode of I Think You Should Leave."—Adam Nayman, The Ringer
"A gleefully discomfiting portrait of male bonding that delivers some of the year’s biggest laughs."—Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter
To paraphrase William Butler Yeats and Marge Simpson: a stranger is just a friend you haven’t met. Hence the slight spring in the step of Craig Waterman (Tim Robinson) as he heads out on a winter day to hand-deliver a misaddressed package to a neighbor. For a sedentary family man who doesn’t get out much, Craig needs all the exercise he can get, as well as any pretense for potential connection. Austin Carmichael (Paul Rudd), the new local weatherman who has recently arrived on their quiet residential street is not only fitter, happier and more productive than Craig, but cooler; he smokes hand-rolled cigarettes, plays in a pickup punk band, and talks shit about the mayor. Craig, whose mind is like a sponge, gloms onto Austin as a confidant and role model. But in trying to reinvent himself overnight in his new friend’s image, he comes on too strong in a film that tackles the male-bonding ritual, visualized as an uphill trek over slippery terrain.
