What Men Talk About
Four prosperous Moscow friends turn a drive to Odessa into a candid, comic reckoning with love, sex, work, and adult responsibility.
Overview
Four friends embark on a hilarious road trip to escape their mundane lives and rediscover the joy of camaraderie.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Mild
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- None
- witty
- warm
- irreverent
- lazy sunday
- friends night
What critics said
Critics broadly praised the film as a sharp, warm, and highly entertaining conversation-driven comedy about contemporary male relationships.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The four friends spend their journey openly debating romantic and sexual concerns that are usually concealed behind masculine bravado.
The Moscow-to-Odessa drive provides the film's central structure and repeatedly turns travel into extended dialogue.
The friends' discussions connect professional success and family obligations with anxieties about sexual liberation and modern male identity in Moscow.
Kamil, Lesha, Sasha, and Slava generate the film's energy through distinct viewpoints, teasing, disagreements, and shared history.
Films like What Men Talk About, and why
The Hangover
road movie structure, conversational humor, and male friendship among adults
Sideways
male friendship, episodic travel, and reflective comedy about adulthood
Swingers
road-trip comedy centered on friendship, romantic entanglements, and self-examination
Movie Details
- Director
- Dmitriy Dyachenko
- Release Date
- 2010-03-04
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 (205)
Cast
- Leonid Barats
- Aleksandr Demidov
- Kamil Larin
- Rostislav Khait
- Zhanna Friske
- Nonna Grishaeva
- Nina Ruslanova
- Sergey Nikonenko
- Anna Kasatkina-Barats
- Konstantin Chepurin
Where to watch in United States
- Rent
- Amazon Video
- Buy
- Amazon Video
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is What Men Talk About about?
- Four prosperous Moscow friends turn a drive to Odessa into a candid, comic reckoning with love, sex, work, and adult responsibility.
- What is What Men Talk About like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of What Men Talk About as brisk, its intensity as mild and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is What Men Talk About violent?
- No — Ember's analysis finds no violence in What Men Talk About.
- What did critics think of What Men Talk About?
- Critics broadly praised the film as a sharp, warm, and highly entertaining conversation-driven comedy about contemporary male relationships.
- Which films are like What Men Talk About?
- Films with a similar feel include The Hangover, Sideways, and Swingers.
- How long is What Men Talk About?
- What Men Talk About runs 93 minutes.
- Where can I watch What Men Talk About?
- In United States, What Men Talk About is available to rent or buy from Amazon Video.
