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The Most Absurd Movie Of The Year Has One Secret To Nailing Its Tricky Tone

Hoai-Tran Bui

created: May 9, 2025, 4 p.m. | updated: May 14, 2025, 2:35 p.m.

Even though Tim Robinson doesn't write the movie, Friendship feels like an I Think You Should Leave sketch. Did Tim play any part in shaping the movie script or jokes, or was that from you shaping the movie for Tim? That's Tim finding it in the day, and Paul being so quiet and terrified, that's them finding it together. And I think that's why when you ground it in reality, hopefully the audience believes it because it is kind of hyperreal. I felt like I haven't had that kind of communal theatrical comedy movie experience in so long.

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