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Friendship 2025 Movie Review Trailer Poster

 “I woke up this morning and ordered myself a beer.” It’s understandable how a generation of young people would turn the lyrics, from The Doors’ 1970 recording of “Roadhouse Blues,” into a hallmark of school yearbooks in the following decade. But when Craig (former Saturday Night Live actor and comedy writer Tim Robinson), the nerdy, middle-aged protagonist of “Friendship,” offers a beer to his 16-year-old son (Jack Dylan Grazer) and his son’s girlfriend at 7:30 a.m. on a school day, it’s simply inappropriate. Craig is inappropriate, to a fault.  For whatever reason—he’s on the spectrum, or on a spectrum, or he’s bipolar, or just trying too hard to be popular—Craig doesn’t grasp the most basic social codes, the rules of everyday behavior that govern human relationships in a particular setting: in this case, a small town in Colorado. Craig isn't a victim of social media, like so many young people these days (though he does have a fetish for Marvel movie superheroes, an obsessio...