with good sports Ben Stiller and
Naomi Watts, two stars who
know a thing or two about playing younger, tackle the extended midlife crisis full on in While
We’re Young, poking fun at their
own careers in the process.
Stiller and Watts are Josh and
Cornelia, a forty-something couple who find themselves growing
estranged from their peers, who
all have the usual assortment of
children, careers and responsibilities at this point in their lives.
A once promising documentarian, Josh has spent the best
part of the decade trying to assemble a film whose subject, an
aging Noam Chomsky figure, is
getting progressively more incoherent thanks to the onset of
senility. After lecturing a class on
the documentary form, Josh is
approached by aspiring documentarian Jamie (Driver) and
his girlfriend Darby (Seyfried),
who quickly inveigle their way
into Josh and Cornelia’s lives.
Watch the trailer for While We’re Young
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