A group of college friends (an unfamiliar cast) don't seem to be able to surrender college life after they have graduated. Josh Hamilton (Outsourced) in particular misses his girlfriend Olivia D'Abo, who's gone to Prague - we see their budding romance in flashback. With Chris Eigeman, Parker Posey, Jason Wiles, Cara Buono, Carlos Jacott, Elliott Gould and Eric Stoltz.
It's entirely dialogue driven, and perfectly captures the lethargy and triviality - and, frankly, childishness - of young people (men) in transition. The Stoltz character clearly never plans on leaving academia.
The story was by Stoltz and Bo Berkman. The producer, Jason Blum, was Baumbach's roommate. His family knew Steve Martin. He sent Martin the script and he agreed to write a letter of endorsement. Blum copied the letter and had it as the front page of every screenplay he send out, and that's how it got made.
There are quite a few Baumbachs in the cast list.
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