Anyone who has ever seen a romantic comedy before knows where this one is going.
Friends with Benefits
Some friends come with a happy ending.
2011 · 1h 49m · R
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Will Gluck
Overview
Dylan is done with relationships. Jamie decides to stop buying into the Hollywood clichés 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.
Director and cast
- Will Gluck Director
- Justin Timberlake as Dylan Harper
- Mila Kunis as Jamie Rellis
- Jenna Elfman as Annie Harper
- Patricia Clarkson as Lorna
- Woody Harrelson as Tommy Bollinger
- Richard Jenkins as Mr. Harper
- Bryan Greenberg as Parker
- Andy Samberg as Quincy
- Nolan Gould as Sammy - Sam the Magnificent
- Shaun White as Himself
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
The chemistry between Kunis and her co-star Justin Timberlake is electric.
It's one of those rare made-in-Hollywood couplings that transcends the ordinary stuff of movies, like plot and sense and credibility.
Fast-paced and fabulously fake, Friends With Benefits is the Red Bull of romantic comedies, unapologetically delivering a hyperactive, synthetic buzz.
Kunis and Timberlake achieve the trickier feat of looking just as happy hanging out as they do sucking face, and when the cliches inevitably come rolling in, they feel earned rather than like a cop-out.
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