Just Friends (2005)
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42% of critics liked it
(98 reviews) -
73% of users liked it
(397,761 ratings)
A hotshot thirtysomething record executive tries to win over the girl who once liked him only "as a friend" in this slapstick comedy. In high school, Chris Brander (Ryan Reynolds) was an overweight, maladroit teen who spent every waking moment with his co-ed pal Jamie Palamino (Amy Smart).… More A hotshot thirtysomething record executive tries to win over the girl who once liked him only "as a friend" in this slapstick comedy. In high school, Chris Brander (Ryan Reynolds) was an overweight, maladroit teen who spent every waking moment with his co-ed pal Jamie Palamino (Amy Smart). On the verge of graduation, Chris is humiliated when his yearbook confession to Jamie -- that he wants to be more than "just friends" -- is read aloud. Jamie is flattered, but rebuffs his advances, and Chris spends the next decade transforming himself into a buff, callous ladies' man. Assigned by his boss to sign his pop star ex-girlfriend Samantha James (Anna Faris), Chris finds himself stranded in New Jersey for the holidays, where he promptly sets out to find Jamie. But winning back the love of his life proves difficult, as Chris not only has to get back in touch with the sensitive teen he once was, but also fend off competition from another former geek, the guitar-playing Dusty (Chris Klein). ~ Michael Hastings, Rovi
- Directed By
- Roger Kumble, Roger Kumble
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Nov 23, 2005 Wide
- On DVD
- Mar 7, 2006
- Studio
- New Line Cinema
Critic Reviews
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Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Just Friends is just stupid.
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Tony Wong, Toronto Star
Just Friends is part Farrelly Brothers and part Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, all wrapped together to deliver gross-out gags in bizarrely random and rapid-fire fashion, with zero intent to develop sustainable plot or character.
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Stephen Holden, New York Times
Just Friends hangs its crude, clobbering sense of humor on a dubious theory.
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Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
... while the ending might be a foregone conclusion, getting there involves just enough slapstick manful idiocy to keep the humor moving at a clip.
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Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
A barbed romantic comedy with a distinct debt to the Farrelly brothers' gross-out-plus-sentimentality formula, Just Friends is a welcome antidote to the usual seasonal sweetness.
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Cast
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Ryan Reynolds
as Chris Brander
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Amy Smart
as Jamie Palamino
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Anna Faris
as Samantha James
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Chris Klein
as Dusty Dinkleman
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Christopher George Marquette
as Mike Brander
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Julie Hagerty
as Carol Brander
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Stephen Root
as K.C.
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Fred Ewanuick
as Clark
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Ty Olsson
as Tim
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Amy Matysio
as Darla
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Barry Flatman
as Mr. Palamino
- Chris Marquette
- Ashley Scott








