A film about female friends made by female friends who wrote the script for it, directed it, produced it and also starred in it. Life writes different scripts, and a friendship that is for life is not permanent all the time. Adulthood is about being able to talk about the fact that we change and understand that we may start liking different things at some point.
When you’ve been together all your life, spent most of your time together, liked the same activities, the same things, escaped from sleepovers at another friend’s house together and were generally inseparable, it’s very hard to understand that one of you is starting a life together with someone else and on top of that you just got engaged. And yet everyone knows that there is nothing worse than a friend’s new guy, for whom she has completely lost her head. It is normal to hate him and do everything to take her away from him. Right?
Adult Best Friends is an excellent movie in the feel good movie category, to be seen with a friend with whom you did crazy things and grew up together, but at some point the paths started to diverge a bit, because the things you thought you would always do together until now, you are already doing with someone else. And this is the situation in which we meet Delaney (Delaney Buffett) and Katie (Katie Corwin). Up to a certain point in their lives, they were completely inseparable, but Katie began to drift out of this life together. She swapped parties until dawn for a blanket and comfort food in the company of her boyfriend. For Delaney, giving up nightly parties, swapping an apartment with an eccentric roommate in the city for a house in the suburbs, putting a ring on her finger and, worst of all, changing diapers, is unthinkable. That’s why it’s so hard for Katie to admit that a boy whom Delaney dislikes very much has just proposed to her. She comes up with the idea that the best way to tell her would be to go on a trip together – the kind of joint last dance in a seaside resort, when they’ll both feel like they’ve been there before.
Of course, everything goes wrong, because not only times change, but we change with them. Shaped in part by upbringing, environmental factors, experiences and past loves, Katie and Delaney envisioned the trip differently, including the lodging, free time and ending with the alcohol they drank. If you add in the bachelorette party members they meet by chance and the Airbnb owner in rehab from whom they rent the cottage, things start to get less/more fun. One counts on the moment to be honest, the other on the moment of the other’s sincerity. Adult Best Friends teaches that it’s worth talking even when it hurts, because it’s only through talking that we can get over what we differ on to get to what we agree on.
The film Adult Best Friends (dir. Delaney Buffett) to be seen at the 18th Mastercard OFF CAMERA as part of the American Indies section, of which the Galeria Krakowska is a partner.
Kinga Majchrzak