Easygoing. Good-natured. Charming. It sounds like damning with faint praise, but we really are quite excited to see Friends With Kids, which features a heavy comic roster including John Hamm, Jennifer Westfeldt, Adam Scott, Kristen Wiig, Edward Burns, Maya Rudolph and some bloke called Chris O’Dowd. You can see the trailer below.
Written and directed by Westfeldt (still probably best known for writing and starring in ace rom-com Kissing Jessica Stein), Friends follows a group of pals who regularly meet up. Two of the group – Scott’s Jason and Westfeldt’s Julie – decide to have a child with one other, but without actually starting a relationship, since they figure that little ‘uns mess everything up when it comes to staying together. Everyone else, including couples Alex (The wonderful Chris O’Dowd, for it is he!) and Leslie (Rudolph) and Missy (Wiig) and Ben (Hamm) is convinced it can only end in tears.
They’re pleasantly surprised, then, when the arrangement seems to work for the new parents… At least until they start dating other people post-baby. Now, with Julie attracted to Kurt (Ed Burns) and Jason seeing Mary (Megan Fox), the tensions rise as the duo realise they might just have deeper feelings for each other than they originally suspected… At which point, we’re sort of hoping someone arrives with a megaphone and screams, “OF COURSE, YOU FOOLS!” But we doubt that will happen.
There’s no word on a release date for this one yet, but we’re sure with that talent list it’ll find a spot soon enough.