Trailer for Ben Stiller’s Comedy WHILE WE'RE YOUNG
A trailer has been released for Ben Stiller’s new comedy While We're Young, which was directed by Noah Baumbach (Greenberg, The Squid and the Whale). I love it when Stiller takes on off-beat comedy projects like this. I was really impressed with what I saw in this trailer, and it looks like a great and entertaining film.
The movie also has a great supporting cast that includes Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Grodin, and Adam Horowitz. Here’s the synopsis:
Aging gracefully is never easy, and it may be worse for artists. Josh Srebnick (Ben Stiller) is a New York documentarian who never quite got his due. As he labours over the umpteenth edit of his cerebral new film, it’s plain that he has hit a creative dry patch. Josh and his wife, Cornelia (Naomi Watts), tried to start a family and were unable — and have decided they’re okay with that. Yet for Josh, there is something still missing.
Enter Jamie (Adam Driver, also appearing at the Festival in Hungry Hearts and This is Where I Leave You) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried), who approach Josh after a class he teaches. A young artist couple, they are spontaneous and untethered, ready to drop everything in pursuit of their next passion — retro board games one day, acquiring a pet chicken the next. For Josh, it’s as if a door has opened back to his youth.
It’s not long before the unhappy fortysomethings Josh and Cornelia throw aside friends their own age — including Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz in a sly supporting role — to trail after these young hipsters who seem so plugged in, so uninhibited, so Brooklyn cool. “Before we met,” Josh admits, “the only two feelings I had left were wistful and disdainful.” But is this new inspiration enough to sustain collaboration with artists twenty years his junior?
While We’re Young opens on March 27th 2015.