Rent Friends with Benefits (2011)
3.4 of 5 from 202 ratings
1h 45min
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- Synopsis:
- Dylan (Justin Timberlake) is done with relationships. Jamie (Mila Kunis) decides to stop buying into the Hollywood cliches of true love. When the two become friends they decide to try something new and take advantage of their mutual attraction - but without any emotional attachment. Physical pleasure without the entanglements. Sounds easy enough for two logical adults, right? Not so much. They soon realise romantic comedy stereotypes might exist for a reason.
- Actors:
- Mila Kunis, Justin Timberlake, Patricia Clarkson, Jenna Elfman, Bryan Greenberg, Richard Jenkins, Woody Harrelson, Nolan Gould, Andy Samberg, Shaun White, Andrew Fleming, Catherine Reitman, Courtney Henggeler, Masi Oka, Tiya Sircar, Christopher T. Wood, Emma Stone, Lili Mirojnick, Rupak Ginn, Duane R. Shepard Sr.
- Directors:
- Will Gluck
- Producers:
- Janet Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Liz Glotzer, Martin Shafer, Will Gluck
- Writers:
- Keith Merryman, David A. Newman
- Studio:
- Sony
- Genres:
- Comedy, Romance
- Collections:
- Top 10 Films About Trains: Thrillers
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 06/02/2012
- Run Time:
- 109 minutes
- Languages:
- English Audio Description Dolby Digital 5.1, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Arabic, Dutch, English, English Hard of Hearing, French, Hindi, Italian
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- Bonus:
- On set with FWB featurette
- In a flash: Choreographing a mob featurette
- Bonus benefits: A pop-up trivia track
- Comedy of a sexomedy
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Friends with Benefits review by Melissa Orcine - Cinema Paradiso
‘Friends With Benefits’ is the third romantic comedy with the casual-sex-between-friends trope right at the heels of ‘Love and Other Drugs’ and ‘No Strings Attached’. In ‘Friends With Benefits’ the hookup is between Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis, fresh from their star turns in ‘The Social Network’ and ‘Black Swan’, respectively. Whereas the first two friends-with-benefits movies are too serious and shoddy with the storytelling, even the chemistry of its partners suspect, in ‘Friends With Benefits’, it mocks the rom-com world and even f—ck buddies system as well. Surprisingly, Timberlake and Kunis have undeniable chemistry, something you can’t bottle up and manufacture.
Director Will Gluck, returns to the rom-com universe now fortified with lots of sex and even nudity. In it, Mila Kunis is Jamie, a headhunter who has zoned in on Justin Timberlake’s Dylan, a web designer gunning for a job at GQ Magazine.
They meet at the airport and if this were a typical rom-com, it would be True Love. Jamie then convinces Dylan to move from LA to New York, in an effort to lure him to the prize job and get her bonus. Dylan then transplants himself to New York and as they get to know each other, they realize they’re two broken-hearted and horny people, so what the heck, let’s sleep together – a quickie here, a wrestle on the bed there – but, as friends.
The additional loveliness of ‘Friends With Benefits’ also comes from its script, Jamie and Dylan’s rapid-fire banter is hilarious at its dry wit and sarcasm. The supporting cast which includes Patricia Clarkson as Jamie’s hippie-groupie-sex-starved mother, Woody Harrelson as a gay sports editor at GQ, and small roles for Jason Segel and Rashida Jones as the stars of a rom-com flick Jamie and Dylan watch and mock, are delights.