Kicking and Screaming

• Comedy
• Drama
• Romance

A uniquely halting romantic comedy-drama, *Kicking and Screaming* captures the specific, anxious inertia of post-graduate life with a bittersweet realism rarely seen in the genre. The film isn’t about *finding* a future, but about a paralyzing fear of *leaving* the comfortable, familiar present, depicted through a group clinging to their college town long after graduation. The narrative avoids grand romantic gestures, focusing instead on the awkward, circling conversations and stalled ambitions of young men and women unable to define themselves beyond their university identities, and finding unexpected connections in their shared stagnation. It’s a gentle, observational study of a generation adrift, not propelled by hope or ambition, but by a quietly desperate desire to remain tethered to the past, even as it slips away.