This grab bag James Wolcott post mentions the actor Chris Eigeman, who made a splash in the talky Whit Stillman comedies Metropolitan and Barcelona and has bounced around since then. (He never really looked comfortable on Gilmore Girls) That reminded me that Eigeman plays a supporting role in Noah Baumbach's Kicking and Screaming (1995), a film that contains a definitive anti-"mumblecore" scene.
The film chronicles the year after college of a group of friends, who are in such post-college stasis that they don't even move or get jobs. Aspiring writer Grover (Josh Hamilton) is missing his girlfriend Jane (Olivia d'Abo), who has gone to Prague on a fellowship. I won't give away the ending, but the climactic scene at the airport makes Grover aware of his own agency in a way that no character in Funny Ha Ha ever is. Kicking and Screaming is available in a Criterion DVD edition.
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