Drinking Buddies!!!!

Drinking Buddies.

Rom-com's, especially with big budgets tend to come across as too polished and always always have the happy ending that everyone goes "awwwww" at the end, Drinking Buddies turns this idea right on it's head and it works really well. 

The story takes place in a Chicago brewery where Kate (Olivia Wilde) and Luke (Jake Johnson) both work, flirting with each other constantly you are sucked into thinking their perfect for each other. But they are both surprisingly taken, Kate is with Chris (Ron Livingston) and Luke is with Jill (Anna Kendrick) and they are both happy in their relationships. 

The two couples finally meet at a party and decide to go on a break out to Chris's family's cabin in the woods. Kate and Luke do what they do best and drink and make a bonfire on the beach and stay up all night while Chris and Jill go on a hike and enjoy a picnic and a mistaken intimate moment where they both feel bad. 

Kate soon enough becomes a newly single woman and decides to do what she does best and that is to drink and party with her male co-workers, sleeping with Dave (Ti West) this angers Luke who is very protective of Kate. With Jill and Luke constantly talking about marriage it's only a matter of time for Jill's stupid actions on the trip away to come to the surface. Will Kate ever find happiness on her own or does she need to win Chris back.

Like I said this is a more realistic rom-com as everything that you expect to happen never takes place, Luke being asked to go skinny dipping with Kate doesn't happen. Expecting Luke to break up with Jill and run over to Kate's arms doesn't happen and the awkward moments are at times really awkward but true to real life situations.

The way in which this film works is that it is mainly un-scripted so the improvisation comes from the actors who have no doubt had awkward situations themselves. Johnson and Kendrick bring across a really cute couple who are secure enough with each other, Wilde and Livingston bring across a more stern couple who you can feel have different ideas of their relationship. 

A really basic, indie and quirky, funny comedy that is very much more of a realistic rom-com that every couple can really relate to.

8/10.