Drinking Buddies: Great Performances, But A Bit of Paint Drying, Too

, written and directed by Joe Swanberg, is a movie pretending to be an indie romantic comedy, but is actually just a slow moving film where nothing much happens.It tells the story of the will-they-or-won’t-they relationship between brewery co-workers Kate (Olivia Wilde) and Luke (Jake Johnson) over a short period of time. Kate is apparently the only woman working at the brewery and handles this by being “one of the guys.” She matches her male co-workers beer for beer and quip for quip.However, what seems like casual joking and banter with the other men at work is somehow flirtatious and more playful when it is with Luke. The problem is, Kate is in a relationship a man named Chris (Ron Livingston), while Luke is living with his girlfriend Jill (Anna Kendrick). When both couples decide to spend a weekend together at a beachside cabin owned by Chris’s family, a single event affects both relationships in a way that might leave the door open for Kate and Luke, if only they could both stop joking around and actually take a serious look at what they want in life.All four leads deliver very good performances, heightened by the fact that the film is mostly improvised which makes the dialogue very true. However, none of the characters are terribly strong or interesting; they are too busy being “real people.”