Friendship- A painfully hilarious take on the need to belong

Writer/ director Andrew DeYong's feature film debut puts the id in idiot.

Who amongst us hasn’t partaken in viscous, self inflicted mental flagellation after saying or doing something stupid or strange to someone we wished to impress. Telling a perspective lover something way too vulnerable on a first date; identifying as a communist at a job interview; accidentally saying I love you to a client when hanging up the phone. I once told a very famous director about a screenplay I am writing about an evil, possessed sourdough starter ( trademarked!) and a few sentences in I felt all the blood in my head seep out through my feet as I realized he did not share my affection for food based B horror. Despite that fact that this person is a friend, not a week goes by where I don’t stop and squirm at the memory of this failed pitch. Stupid Zahra, I say as I clinch my teeth and try to time travel back to that moment and breathe my words back in. Friendship, staring Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd, is a one-hundred minuet wince inducing, side splitting thriller/comedy that will not only make you laugh until you cry, but also transport you back to in the times of your life when your primal urges to fit in have made you feel left out.