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The Friend

2024

Comedy / Drama

17
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 85% · 131 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 3099 3.1K

new york city suicide based on novel or book mentor writer dog

Plot summary

When a solitary writer adopts and bonds with a Great Dane that belonged to a late friend, she begins to come to terms with her past and her own creative inner life.

Director

Scott McGehee Photo
Scott McGehee

Top cast

Carla Gugino Photo
Carla Gugino as Elaine
Naomi Watts Photo
Naomi Watts as Iris
Bill Murray Photo
Bill Murray as Walter
Ann Dowd Photo
Ann Dowd as Marjorie
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1.08 GB
1280*536
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  fr  es  
23.976 fps
1 hr 59 min
Seeds 25
2.21 GB
1920*804
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  fr  es  
23.976 fps
1 hr 59 min
Seeds 48
1.08 GB
1280*530
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  fr  es  
23.976 fps
1 hr 59 min
Seeds 75
2.21 GB
1920*796
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  fr  es  
23.976 fps
1 hr 59 min
Seeds 100+
2 GB
1918*802
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  fr  es  
23.976 fps
1 hr 59 min
Seeds 28
5.34 GB
3840*1600
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  fr  es  
23.976 fps
1 hr 59 min
Seeds 60

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Aziz24 6 / 10

A warm but chaotic story

Watched at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on Sep. 11th, 2024 (First Watch)Format: Regular theatreThe story doesn't know what direction it's taking, which is why at most times it just keeps going on and on which feels like it's never ending and here comes the part where the watcher will feel the long and heaviness of its runtime which is not even long but it seems like that because of the slow and sometimes boring rhythm that the story has.The dog is for sure the best part of the film. The way it was trained to showcase these emotions and use its body language to tell something is very impressive. I really didn't like the way the story approached Bill Murray's character as it felt very useless. The film to me is more like a story between a dog and a grieving person and not about a suicidal writer who died and left out a dog. It felt very chaotic in this aspect and it could've easily gotten more in depth in terms of this topic or showed a flashback that will support Bill Murray's character. Other than that, nothing more special but overall, a cute and warm film to watch!
Reviewed by michael-a-roman 5 / 10

Eveyrone phoned it in

Reviewed by housermichael 7 / 10

The Great Naomi Watts

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