Production Budget Analysis

The production budget for Our Friend (2019) has not been publicly disclosed.

CAST: Dakota Johnson, Casey Affleck, Jason Segel, Cherry Jones, Jake Owen, Denée Benton DIRECTOR: Gabriela Cowperthwaite CINEMATOGRAPHY: Joe Anderson MUSIC: Rob Simonsen PRODUCTION: Black Bear Pictures, BBP Friend, Scott Free Productions

Box Office Performance

Theatrical box office data is not publicly available for Our Friend (2019). This may indicate a limited release, direct-to-streaming, or a release predating modern box office tracking.

Profitability Assessment

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INDUSTRY IMPACT

PRODUCTION NOTES

▸ Production

In January 2019, it was announced Casey Affleck, Dakota Johnson, Jason Segel and Jake Owen had been cast in the drama film The Friend, with Gabriela Cowperthwaite directing from a screenplay by Brad Ingelsby, based upon an Esquire article by Matthew Teague. Gwendoline Christie and Cherry Jones were among additional casting announced in February.

Filming began on February 19, 2019, in Fairhope, Alabama.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

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CRITICAL RECEPTION

Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported that of critics gave the film a positive review, with an average rating of . The site's critics consensus reads: "Our Friends occasionally frustrating approach to dramatizing its fact-based story is often offset by a trio of starring performances led by a never-better Jason Segel." Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 57 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Ella Kemp from The Playlist praised the performances stating: "The Friend is successfully anchored by its three leading players... The sensitivity of these performances, particularly from Affleck and Segel, offers a reckoning on sincere friendship and the limits of devotion that remains with the viewer, long after the days of waiting and the years of pain have finally come to an end."

Katey Rich of Vanity Fair said: "It succeeds by sticking closely to the important specifics ... It's a small-scale human story, precious few of which make it to film these days. It's also, if you're in the market for that kind of thing, an extremely effective tearjerker." Conversely, Peter Debruge of Variety wrote: "So much of the unpleasantness has been scrubbed from the picture, until what remains is precisely the kind of dishonest, sanitized no-help-to-anyone TV-movie version of death that inspired Teague to set the record straight in the first place."

Sheila O'Malley, writing for Roger Ebert's film criticism website, gave it a 3 star rating.