A young couple decides to give each other a night off, no questions asked.A young couple decides to give each other a night off, no questions asked.A young couple decides to give each other a night off, no questions asked.
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- TriviaDax Shepard joined the cast a mere 18 hours before filming commenced (from the DVD commentary).
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Darren: I has been a little while since... When was the last time that we...
Annie: Um...
Darren: After Riches... after Riches party?
Annie: I don't think we actually had sex then, I think we talked about having sex.
Darren: No, in the car ride home I thought you were like...
Annie: No, we talked about having sex, but then we came home and...
Darren: We got in and the toilet was... running.
Annie: We didn't do it then, but I was almost positive that we had sex after my parents left - after the holidays.
Darren: No, cuz remember your shoulder was messed up from helping them load the car?
Annie: That hurt.
Darren: So that takes us back... to... January.
Annie: December was so crazy, too.
Darren: Yeah, with shopping. Well we definitely did it on Halloween.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Conan: Houston, We Have a Murder (2011)
So, I'm guessing, someone along the way knew that this was a pretty great movie and thus wanted it to be one that people would see. Thus the title. Thus the poster. Thus all the wrong people seeing this movie. The Freebie is for fans of Noah Baumbach and Joe Swanberg.
What The Freebie is is naturalistic drama done right. The story is simple: a happy couple decide to "fix" their bedroom apathy by taking a single night to go out and share some bone with a stranger. Both Katie Aselton and Shepard are fantastic, both as lovers and as people going through a mighty big challenge together. Much of the dialogue in the first two acts plays through in a way that makes you wish it was your relationship - the two leads seeming so uniquely happy together at times that you get the feeling that Aselton took from her personal life for the script. Things change a bit in the third act, as they should. Things get, well, heavy.
Knowing that the writer/director, Aselton, is married to actor/writer/director Mark Duplass, I half expected the film to have a Mumblecore vibe. Not really the case. The cinematography is solid, if simple, the picture always looking big and bright and, at times, quite stylized. And sure, the writing and acting are great, but it's the combination of clever editing and the believable bond between the two leads that really make this thing work.
I don't want to give too much away. Go watch the movie ... it's streaming right now on Netflix and up for rent at your local video store. I'll be excited to see what Katie does next. I could see the coupling of this project and her role on "The League" getting her some rom-com roles alongside Paul Rudd or Seth Rogan or whoever. I hope she passes on those. I love to see a smart, talented female "make it" in any male-dominated industry. I think Katie has what it takes to have a solid career as a filmmaker, The Freebie standing as a very promising directorial debut.
- GWilliamLocke
- Mar 5, 2011
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- Бесплатный билет
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- Gross US & Canada
- $16,613
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,309
- Sep 19, 2010
- Gross worldwide
- $16,613
- Runtime1 hour 18 minutes
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