Highball

1997

Comedy / Drama

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 24% · 5 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 24% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.5/10 10 1040 1K

Plot summary

A newly married couple tries to enhance their social life by throwing fabulous parties and inviting all their friends in Brooklyn to their home.

Director

Noah Baumbach Photo
Noah Baumbach

Top cast

Dean Cameron Photo
Dean Cameron as The Magician
Annabella Sciorra Photo
Annabella Sciorra as Molly
Catherine Kellner Photo
Catherine Kellner as Lolly
Eric Stoltz Photo
Eric Stoltz as Darien
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732.6 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 19 min
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1.33 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 19 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by james_oblivion

Funny...but not for fans of Hollywood "comedies"

Okay, now this is a very funny movie...if you can appreciate its brand of humor. If big-budget Hollywood comedies are your bag, and you need a bunch of sight gags and constant over-the-top situations in order to laugh, then you'll probably see this movie as a boring, poorly-made waste of time. But it's not...and if you're a fan of stage plays or older-style comedy films (before the attention span of the average film-goer plummeted), then you'll certainly get some laughs from this outing.Filmed on a shoestring budget over six shooting days, this film is an impressive result. If it had been shot in three months, and had turned out the way it had, it wouldn't seem quite as impressive...but it would still be a funny movie. What I'm saying here is that not only is it a good comedy, it's also one of those rare films that's shot quickly, for very little money, and STILL manages to shine.As a filmmaker, I would have never attempted to shoot a comedy on such a tight schedule, with so little money. Comedies are very tricky...by comparison, dramas are much easier...at least in my mind. But this little no-budget comedic gem packs in enough laughs to please fans of stage comedies and classic cinematic comedies. Truly an impressive film which delivered more than I'd expected it to.
Reviewed by dwpittelli 1 / 10

A miserably tedious and pointless film

Ignore the blurb on the VHS box, the movie is not about a couple's hot parties with hip friends, it is about a couple's awful parties with jerk friends. Now, that might not be a bad thing -- in fact, I think it could be easier to make a good movie about bad parties than about good ones -- but the advertising is dishonest.Much worse, though, is the the pointless and boring character of the movie, which is about a bunch of stupid or verbally sadistic "friends" who mostly don't like each other. While I've known cliques that keep getting together despite frictions between some members, it's inconceivable that these people would keep getting together for these abusive and tedious holiday events. Also, the couples' relationships, which come and go between these parties, are unexplained and mostly unexplored, as are some individuals' character changes, and indeed, almost everything that doesn't happen at the parties themselves.
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