The “I Think You Should Leave…” mastermind’s penchant for characters who make everyone around them uncomfortable is on expert display in “Friendship,” his cinematic debut at TIFF.
TORONTO, Canada—Tim Robinson’s characters are socially inept weirdos who don’t recognize that they’re incapable of properly existing in society and grow furiously frustrated when their craziness is thrown back in their face., the comedian has perfected a particular brand of pathetic-yet-hostile strangeness, playing office drones, TV hucksters, and suburban husbands and fathers who are oblivious to the tenets that govern human interaction.
A few nights later, Tami informs her husband that she’s set up a get-together between him and Austin. Despite initially balking, Craig gives in and, for his efforts, discovers that this stranger is the Channel 3 weatherman, a member of a punk-rock band, and the kind of fascinating guy who waxes philosophical about a 400,000-year-old artifact. Sitting and having a beer in Austin’s ’70s-retro house, which boasts a giant fish tank and a guitar on the wall, Craig practically swoons.
Later, he’s invited to hang out with Austin and his other friends, but that goes even worse, thanks to Craig walking directly into a sliding glass door and sucker-punching Austin in a supposedly playful boxing match. This naturally alienates Austin, which in turn upsets and destabilizes Craig, whose behavior—aimed at rekindling their friendship, and later at finding new bros to call his own—gradually devolves into desperate lunacy.’s main plot is a sturdy vehicle for inspired dude delirium.
Making an a-- of himself at work with a too-full cup of coffee and in a meeting with the mayor, and at a party in his house where Tami acts uncomfortably chummy with her firefighter ex-boyfriend , Robinson’s protagonist is a familiar creation taken to a pathetically disturbed extreme.
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