About Alex
Writer: Jesse Zwick
Director: Jesse Zwick
Release: August 8, 2014
Tagline: Sex #Jealousy #Wine #Regret – After all, what are friends for?
Producer: Adam Saunders
Executive Producer(s): Marshall Herskovitz, Youmi N. Ma, Edward Zwick
Co-Executive Producer(s): Pete Brown, Jeffrey E. Janis
Stars/Actors: Nate Parker, Jason Ritter, Maggie Grace, Max Greenfield, Aubrey Plaza, Max Minghella, Jane Levy
Music by: Joel P. West
Production Company: The Bedford Falls Company
Genre(s): Drama (Dramedy)
ID: tt2667918
Rating: R
Runtime: 99 minutes
Synopsis: When a group of old college friends reunites over a long weekend after one of them attempts suicide, old crushes and resentments shine light on their life decisions–and ultimately push friendships and relationships to the brink.
Declassified by Agent Palmer: About Alex (or Big Chill 2.0) Gets it Right when Tearing Down Fake Online Friendships
Quotes and Lines
Josh: I’m writing about the future of biography. How our ever-expanding digital footprint, emails, texts, tweets, will inform our understanding of history and ourselves. Which is ironic.
Kate: Why?
Josh: Because I hate the modern world.
Josh: The only thing I hate more than the present is nostalgia for the past.
Sarah: You’re a dick.
Josh: Yeah. All men are dicks, Sarah. We’re hardwired that way.
Sarah: Yeah, but you’re a dick who thinks he’s better than a dick because he can back up his dickish behavior with psychobabble and pseudoscience.
Ben: Judgment has a way of creeping into every relationship. Even the most intimate. If we’re lucky, somewhere along the way we meet a few people who listen to us without criticism or reproach. We call those people our friends.
Alex: Don’t tell me we’re having a party in honor of my suicide.
Ben: Attempted suicide. Jeez, if it were a suicide, we’d both be wearing suits.
Josh: Sometimes things, they need to be said. And in those instances, being an asshole comes in handy.
Josh: Sarah!
Sarah: What?
Josh: Enough with the fucking pictures.
Sarah: I’m sorry, I’m recording this for posterity. Is that okay?
Josh: By what? By ruining it in the present?
Sarah: No, that’s your job.
Ben: There are three stages of finding friends in college. The first is desperation. Second is panic. The third is fate. When you wind up at the same table together somehow, then your real life begins.
Ben: When good things happen, we always wanna imagine them as fated. But when bad things happen, we curse the world as this cold and brutally random place.
Josh: It’s like we’re gripped by this never-ending nostalgia for our parents’ music. It’s oppressive.
Sarah: I like to see what my friends are up to. Big deal.
Josh: So what your news feed tells you that Isaac got a new pair of Italian Loafers or Ben, Ben wrote a, a funny headline for the post, and that makes you feel like you still know somebody?
Sarah: Yeah, kind of, because that’s what people do now, Josh. People who care, at least.
Josh: Well, you know what, I’m sorry, but maybe I’d rather be in the fucking dark as to what people are up to than mistake some false level of intimacy for friendship.