Film Review – Almost Friends

With “Almost Friends,” writer/director Jake Goldberger tries to make an honest movie about matters of the heart. He almost pulls it off. It’s a story about friendships that endeavor to be romances, but encounter too many issues to permit a full blossoming into love, with the production establishing multiple subplots to create a cat’s cradle of dysfunction and confession. Goldberger has interest in these lives, but his command of storytelling fluidity and consistency is a tad off, with “Almost Friends” spending too much time on characters who fail to add anything to the picture’s sense of sincerity, while clichés soon catching up to the helmer, kneecapping its dramatic integrity. There’s gentleness to the effort that’s appealing, but it doesn’t last long enough.  Read the rest at Blu-ray.com