While We're Young Page #19

Synopsis: Middle-aged filmmaker Josh Srebnick (Ben Stiller) and his wife, Cornelia (Naomi Watts), are happily married, but stuck in a rut. So, when free-spirited couple Jamie (Adam Driver) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried) enter their lives, it's like a breath of fresh air -- especially for Josh, who pines for a youth he wishes he had. Soon, Josh and Cornelia are ditching friends their own age to hang out with the hipsters -- but whether the friendship can endure despite a 20-year age gap remains to be seen.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Production: A24
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
77
Rotten Tomatoes:
84%
R
Year:
2014
97 min
$7,008,208
Website
1,253 Views


DARBY:

This is a nudibranch. And if youkeep your eyes peeled you might spota gopher tortoise or a woodstork.

CUT BACK TO:

91 INT. AIRPORT TERMINAL. DAY 91

Josh opens his yogurt. He pauses for a moment, looking atthe container.

122.

CORNELIA:

(frowns)

What’s wrong?

JOSH:

No. Nothing. We’ll have a baby

before this yogurt expires.

Cornelia suddenly leans in hard, her face colliding withJosh’s.

JOSH:

(laughs)

Oww, your teeth.

They kiss long, intimately. Finally, they release. Both are

grinning.

In the row of seats across from them: A mom is going throughher tickets and itinerary. Her toe-headed one year old sonis on his iPhone.

Josh and Cornelia watch the little boy -- his fingers movequickly, gracefully on the keys. He’s totally immersed inwhat he’s doing. Nothing else exists. Then he puts it tohis ear.

We CUT TO:
BLACK.

As the CREDITS ROLL we

CUT TO:

92 INT. JOSH/CORNELIA APT. DAY 92

A VIDEO IMAGE of Josh. He sits in an armchair looking at the

camera. He consults a piece of loose-leaf paper, and withCornelia’s help from behind the camera, re-asks his ten years

123.

worth of questions for his documentary.

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Noah Baumbach

Noah Baumbach is an American independent filmmaker. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Squid and the Whale and is known for making dramatic comedies. more…

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