In an attempt to have one last adventure with his oldest friends, Jake, a smart artist that makes his mind to leave New York City and returns home. He asks his oldest friends to walk the entire length of Manhattan. But their journey turns out to be a disastrous journey.
Cenac gives the most entertaining performance, but at the expense of making Gunderson so irredeemably obnoxious that it's impossible to believe he'd have any friends.
"Growing Up and Other Lies" tells you right in the title it's not going to take maturing seriously, so it's not a surprise that the movie is unfocused and ineffective.
One of those exasperating, totally fraudulent New York-centric indies about how tough it is to make it in the big city...without actually showing how tough it is to make it in the big city.
Though it doesn't carry the impact one would have hoped for, Growing Up and Other Lies finally intimates empathy for these modern musketeers clinging to the comfort of at least being there for each other.
Mr. Jacobs and Mr. Grodsky have an extraordinary ear for the rhythms and nuances of everyday speech, as voices overlap, conversations take random directions, and casual remarks carry loaded subtexts.
