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That Awkward Moment

MPA Rating: R-Rating (MPA) for sexual content and language throughout.
Moral Rating: not reviewed
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Primary Audience: Adults
Genre: Romance Comedy
Length: 1 hr. 34 min.
Year of Release: 2014
USA Release: January 31, 2014 (wide—2,800+ theaters)
DVD: May 13, 2014
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Featuring Zac Efron … Jason
Miles Teller … Daniel
Michael B. Jordan … Mikey
Imogen Poots … Ellie
Mackenzie Davis … Chelsea
Jessica Lucas … Vera
Addison Timlin … Alana
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Director Tom Gormican
Producer Treehouse Pictures
Aversano Films
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Distributor
Distributor: Focus Features. Trademark logo.
Focus Features, a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, a division of NBCUniversal/Comcast

Here’s what the distributor says about their film: “In ‘That Awkward Moment,’ three guys decide to support a friend devastated by a recent breakup by vowing to maintain their single status for as long as possible. The plan gets derailed when they each fall in love and have to secretly work around their pledge to bachelorhood, while trying to figure out the complications of modern day relationships.”


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Movie Critics
…The likable cast clicks, even as the testosterone-fueled comedy flails. …
Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter
…A cliche-ridden comedy about the male fear of commitment. … what “…Awkward…” is actually about, albeit unintentionally, is how passing off misogyny for comedy has gotten so terribly passe, as insulting to the guys as to the young women. … [1½/4]
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times
…The balance between ribald comedy and sweet romance is not perfectly calibrated—the film leans too heavily on bathroom humor…
Claudia Puig, USA Today
…Multiple gross-out conversations revolve around what happens when Daniel uses the bathroom in Jason's apartment. … About 75 f-words. …
Adam R. Holz, Plugged In
…Inane film’s comedic moments not so much awkward as forced… discussing the plot of this inane movie is almost physically painful… [1½/4]
Chris Knight, National Post
…Stars squandered on derivative brom-com… clunkily stringing together callow, predictable scenes from rom-coms past. …
Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post
…a couple of twentysomething dudes jacked up on Viagra school each other in the acrobatic art of urinating “horizontally.” …
Scott Foundas, Variety
…its big epiphany moments (Guys can fall in love, too!) are shallow enough to make you long for the comparatively profound rom-com oeuvre of Kate Hudson. … [C+]
Adam Markovitz, Entertainment Weekly

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