Kicking and Screaming (1995)

I thought this movie was alright. The story is about a group of friends who have just graduated college, and how they spend that first year of independence from school.
I thought it was very well written with subtle, but decent acting for the cast. Honestly going into the film I was hoping for a more archaic narrative. When I first heard about Kicking and Screaming, I hoped that it would have the same feel as Linklater's Slacker from 1990. Instead Kicking and Screaming is a lot more accessible than Slacker. I have to say though that K&S is the middle of the pendulum swing with Slacker on the art house extreme, and Reality Bites on the mainstream extreme. Essentially K&S should be the ideal candidate for apathetic post-college individuals. I think this film would have got more attention, but it doesn't seem to want to toot it's own horn.
This is the first feature film by Noah Baumbach, and I feel like it should get some attention, since he's been doing well for himself lately (ie. The Squid and the Whale, a must see). On the other hand, my theory is that K&S isn't getting much nostalgic attention, the way Slacker did, because it was just recently put on the Criterion Collection. Baumbach is a writer/director worth keeping tabs on.