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On his last day in New York City, Jake convinces his three friends to retrace their greatest adventure together: walking the length of Manhattan. But their attempt to reclaim the glory of their early 20s doesn't go quite as planned.
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.