Adult Beginners

• Rose Byrne as Justine
• Nick Kroll as Jake
• Bobby Cannavale as Danny
• Joel McHale as Hudson
• Caleb and Matthew Paddock as Teddy
• Paula Garcés as Blanca
• Jane Krakowski as Miss Jenn
• Jason Mantzoukas as Herman
• Bobby Moynihan as Paul
• Josh Charles as Phil
• Neil Casey as Neil
• Mike Birbiglia as Braden
• Caitlin FitzGerald as Kat

On November 1, 2013, it was announced that Nick Kroll, Rose Byrne, and Bobby Cannavale were attached to star in Brother's Keeper - the original title which later changed to Adult Beginners.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/nick-kroll-rose-byrne-bobby-652541|title=Nick Kroll, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale to Star in Indie Comedy 'Brother's Keeper' (Exclusive)|work=The Hollywood Reporter|author=Borys Kit|date=November 1, 2013|accessdate=April 14, 2015}} On December 10, 2013, Caitlin FitzGerald has been cast as Kat, Jake's girlfriend "who dumps him after his tech startup fails and he moves back to his family home."{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2013/12/colm-feore-joins-650322/|title=Colm Feore Joins 'Painkillers'; Caitlin FitzGerald Cast in 'Brother's Keeper'|website=Deadline Hollywood|author=The Deadline Team|date=December 10, 2013|accessdate=April 15, 2015}}

This film marks the third onscreen appearance of actual couple Bobby Cannavale and Rose Byrne after having both appeared in Annie in 2014 and Spy earlier in 2015.

Principal photography took place in New York including a house on Elk Avenue in New Rochelle, New York for a month in January and February 2014.{{cite web|url=http://newrochelle.dailyvoice.com/lifestyle/new-rochelle-home-gets-fifteen-minutes-fame-adult-beginners-movie|title=New Rochelle Home Gets Fifteen Minutes Of Fame In 'Adult Beginners' Movie|publisher=newrochelle.dailyvoice.com|author=Jeanne Muchnick|date=April 7, 2015|accessdate=April 11, 2015}}

Adult Beginners had its premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2014.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} It was released on April 24, 2015 in a limited release in and through VOD on April 24, 2015 in the United States.{{cite web|url=http://www.gotchamovies.com/news/adults-beginners-interview-nick-kroll-bobby-cannavale-182514 |title=Adults Beginners Interview with Nick Kroll & Bobby Cannavale |publisher=gotchamovies.com |author=Jenny Nulf |date=March 25, 2015 |accessdate=April 11, 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150329090628/http://gotchamovies.com/news/adults-beginners-interview-nick-kroll-bobby-cannavale-182514 |archivedate=March 29, 2015 }}

The first trailer was released on March 14, 2015, titled "Make Me Jealous".{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X8OTG5tdF8|title=Adult Beginners Movie CLIP - Make Me Jealous (2015) - Nick Kroll, Bobby Cannavale Comedy HD|publisher=YouTube|author=Film Festivals and Indie Films|date=April 14, 2015|accessdate=April 15, 2015}}

During its opening weekend, Adult Beginners debuted with a total of $36,657 across ten theatres. As of September 24, 2015, the film has grossed $104,808 in North America.

Adult Beginners received generally mixed reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 49% approval rating based on reviews from 78 critics, with an average score of 5.76/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Perfectly pleasant yet never particularly engaging, Adult Beginners is a mild middle-of-the-road comedy content to coast on the charms of its talented cast."{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/adult_beginners/|title=Adult Beginners|publisher=Rotten Tomatoes|accessdate=May 19, 2020}} Metacritic gives the film a score of 57 out of 100 based on reviews from 26 critics.{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/adult-beginners|title=Adult Beginners|publisher=Metacritic|accessdate=May 11, 2015}}

Adult Beginners gained a fairly positive response at the Toronto International Film Festival, with Nikola Grozdanovic of Indiewire giving it a B+ grade, saying "it’s not perfect, but as far as feature debuts go, there’s very little you can fault Adult Beginners for. Slightly pedantic and maudlin at times, with telegraphed metaphors and some rushed pacing, it’s still hard to call any of these hiccups major flaws. Katz, with the help of an inspired cast and an emotionally intelligent and mature screenplay, has succeeded in depicting the trials and tribulations of adults who, all for respectfully different yet equally weighty reasons, often make a three-year-old the most mature person in the room." He also praised the supporting roles of McHale, Krawkowski, and particularly Moynihan.{{cite web|url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/tiff-review-adult-beginners-starring-nick-kroll-rose-byrne-bobby-cannavale-20140909|title=TIFF Review: 'Adult Beginners' Starring Nick Kroll, Rose Byrne & Bobby Cannavale|publisher=Indiewire|author=Nikola Grozdanovic|date=September 9, 2014|accessdate=April 15, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150415131432/http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/tiff-review-adult-beginners-starring-nick-kroll-rose-byrne-bobby-cannavale-20140909|archive-date=April 15, 2015|url-status=dead}} Phil Brown of Collider gave the film a B− grade calling it "cute". "It’s a very heartfelt, sweet, funny, moving and deliberately small movie that does exactly what it’s supposed to do and then rolks [sic] credits before wearing out it’s [sic] welcome. [...] It’s a little wisp of a comedy with enough warm sentiments and observations about eccentrically neurotic adults to slip in a little emotional sting."{{cite web|url=https://collider.com/adult-beginners-review/|title=ADULT BEGINNERS Review TIFF 2014|publisher=Collider.com|author=Phil Brown|date=September 12, 2014|accessdate=April 15, 2015}}

Justin Chang of Variety said of the film that "it’s the sort of casual hangout vibe that feels so lived-in, it’s a shame when the film begins to devolve into the sort of rigged reconciliations and easy epiphanies it had largely avoided, up to a point. [...] Still, those imperfections are forgivable, even fitting, for a modest, well-assembled charmer that represents a welcome branching out for most of the key talents involved."{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2014/film/festivals/film-review-adult-beginners-1201311745/|title=Film Review: 'Adult Beginners'|work=Variety|author=Justin Chang|date=September 23, 2014|accessdate=April 14, 2015}} Furthermore, at the South by Southwest Film Festival, Michael Roffman of Consequence of Sound said "you don’t need to rush out and see Adult Beginners. However, it’s an ideal Netflix viewing in the near future, when the winter shifts into something awful and the afternoon begs for a little couching."{{cite web|url=http://consequence.net/2015/03/sxsw-film-review-adult-beginners/|title=SXSW Film Review: Adult Beginners|publisher=consequence.net|author=Michael Roffman|date=March 19, 2015|accessdate=April 14, 2015}}

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