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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 4305383, member: 44"] [B]Almost Friends [/B](2017) This is a coming of age movie. Freddie Hightower (most recently from The Good Doctor) stars as Charlie Brenner a once promising chef… well, sort of. He was promising in that he was a runner up in a town cooking contest and was in college setting to be a chef. For reasons that get explained later in the movie, he left school, moved back in at home and has been treading water as an assistant manager in a movie theater. he has been living at home for an unknown number of years. He is comfortable. He has a crush on a high school aged barista Amber (Odeya Rush) who “makes terrible coffee” and gradually works up the nerve to talk with her. I think his courtship/friendship in the movie with Amber was intended to be charming, but it comes off as vaguely creepy stalking with a 20 something-year-old guy pursuing a high school kid. Marg Helgenberger and Christopher Meloni’s play Charlie’s now estranged parents in a vaguely interesting subplot. They are underused and seem to be sleep walking through the roles. Haley Joel Osment plays Charlie’s friend/driver. He doesn’t see dead people, but probably has a glance of his morbund career. There is some other subplots about the people in Charlie’s life including a weird romance between Charlie’s best friend Heather (Rita Volk) and Amber‘s cousin/roommate Jack (Jack Abel). The movie is decidedly underplayed but watchable if not memorable. [/QUOTE]

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