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Josh meets a young couple -- Darby and Jamie (Amanda Seyfried and Adam Driver) -- at an adult education class he teaches on film making. Darby makes artisanal ice cream and Jamie is an aspiring documentarian. Josh and Cornelia start hanging out with Jamie and Darby. As they begin to absorb the millennial culture of their new young friends they grow more distant from their gen-X friends. Things turn disastrous when Josh discovers that Jamie is succeeding with his own documentary while Josh continues to flounder with his.
This movie about movie making needs to be a better movie. 'While We're Young' is just a so-so movie. The plot founders on set pieces -- like the ayahuasca ceremony -- and cute montages that slow its momentum. The information provided about Josh's documentary is confused and diffuse. The New York City sites are not well-defined or integrated into the story. The editing is sometimes abrupt and choppy. Darby and Jamie as portrayed by Seyfried and Driver are not sufficiently magnetic to justify Josh and Cornelia's fascination with them. Stiller and Watts are effective as reluctant gen-Xers pining for perpetual youth and Grodin is wonderful as the grouchy boomer -- but good acting does not automatically equal good filmmaking.
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