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Synopsis: 'About Alex' is the story of seven college friends who reunite over a three-day weekend, after one of them attempts suicide. When the friends get together to keep an eye on Alex, the weekend that ensues will renew old crushes and resentments, shine light on bad decisions, and ultimately push friendships and relationships to the brink as the group tries to speculate when the simple life of their college years turned so muddy and complex. Sometimes irreverent, sometimes poetic, and always moving, About Alex is a searingly honest look at the changing nature of adult friendship in the Facebook/Twitter generation.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Jesse Zwick
Production: Screen Media Ventures
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
45
Rotten Tomatoes:
44%
R
Year:
2014
99 min
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people to give me advice on...

I'm sorry.

No, it's...

I didn't mean that.

It's a fair point.

What?

They...

Are here.

Oh.

She's hot.

Your...

Your b*obs are bigger.

That's not true.

That's not true.

Ugh.

No they're not.

Hey!

Look who I found.

Hey handsome.

Oh, you didn't have to fly all

the way across the country.

Are you kidding me? I wanted to.

Alex, Kate.

Kate, Alex.

Hey, I-I've heard

a lot about you.

I've heard a lot about you.

What the f*** are those?

That's how you say "hi" now?

They're shiny and pointy.

They're Italian, motherf***er.

You look like a lumberjack.

Oh, dude, if you'd told us

you were coming out of the

closet we could've

thrown you a party.

I told you my

friends are awesome.

Um, is there a

bathroom I could-

upstairs!

Dinner is almost ready.

Hey.

Yeah.

Sarah, this pasta is delicious.

Mm, it is pasta and

sauce from a can.

Tomorrow, I'll make

something real.

Instagram tells me you're

still cooking a lot.

Instagram lies.

Unless Ramen counts.

So that's what being

a lawyer's like.

Fulfilling all your

hopes and dreams?

Not all of us can stand to

destroy the planet on the

backs of hedge funds.

That's not what I meant.

I'm just saying, look, we

graduated, aside, aside

from you, at the onset of

the worst recession in 80 years.

History says that most of

us will never regain the

income levels that we

might have otherwise enjoyed.

Isaac here is a beautiful anomaly,

and for that, we salute him.

Thanks pal.

Appreciate it.

How's the uh, how's your

PhD going?

Mm.

What's that supposed to mean?

It's just a simple question.

Nah, it's had subtext.

Oh, you want the subtext?

Of course I want the subtext.

Don't you know who

you're talking to?

Did you forget who I am?

Okay, so how's life up on

your academic high horse,

uh, looking down on the

rest of us and despairing

about the decline

of our culture?

It's comments like those,

Isaac, that make me despair.

Actually, Josh, sorry, but

I'd like to know what the

hell you're doing there too.

Yeah, all joking aside,

what are you writing about?

I'm writing about the

future of biography.

How our ever-expanding

digital footprint, emails,

texts, tweets, will inform

our understanding of

history and ourselves.

Which is ironic.

Why?

Because I hate the modern world.

Which era would you

rather have lived in?

I'm sorry, what was

your name again?

It was Kate?

- Kate? Kate.

- Josh...

I'm just saying,

I'm sorry. It's Kate? Kate?

Yeah.

The only thing I hate

more than the present is

nostalgia for the past.

Hey, you don't have to do that.

No, no let me do something.

Nope!

You want to take shifts?

He's compensating for the

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