{"id":2003493,"date":"2025-09-07T06:01:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T06:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2003493"},"modified":"2025-09-07T06:01:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T06:01:35","slug":"tim-robinson-and-paul-rudds-budding-bromance-implodes-in-hbo-maxs-friendship-star-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tim-robinson-and-paul-rudds-budding-bromance-implodes-in-hbo-maxs-friendship-star-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd\u2019s Budding Bromance Implodes in HBO Max\u2019s \u2018Friendship\u2019 \u2013 Star Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18484\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1290px;\"><figcaption class=\"mtSubImg\"><span class=\"wp-desc-text\"\/> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">HBO Max<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The so-called \u201cmale loneliness epidemic\u201d gets the black-comedy treatment \u2014 and a probable explanation \u2014 in <em>Friendship<\/em>, In this new-to-streaming film about Craig (<strong>Tim Robinson<\/strong>), a tech exec with a beautiful wife (<strong>Kate Mara<\/strong>) and a sweet teenage son (<strong>Jack Dylan Grazer<\/strong>) \u2014 but zero friends.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2570px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18479\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Entertainment-FRIENDSHIP-2.tif_master-copy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Entertainment-FRIENDSHIP-2.tif_master-copy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Entertainment-FRIENDSHIP-2.tif_master-copy-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Entertainment-FRIENDSHIP-2.tif_master-copy-1024x617.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Entertainment-FRIENDSHIP-2.tif_master-copy-768x463.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Entertainment-FRIENDSHIP-2.tif_master-copy-1536x926.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Entertainment-FRIENDSHIP-2.tif_master-copy-2048x1234.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Entertainment-FRIENDSHIP-2.tif_master-copy-400x240.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"\/><figcaption class=\"mtSubImg\"><span class=\"wp-desc-text\"\/> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">HBO Max<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He\u2019s introduced to a readymade circle of buddies by his new neighbor, cool guy Austin (<strong>Paul Rudd<\/strong>, at his charismatic Rudd-iest). But their budding bromance implodes when Austin realizes Craig has zero social skills and dumps him.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a few plot holes, Robinson is so great at playing that cringe-y guy that he makes this a dark but fascinating portrait.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Friendship<\/em> | Premieres Friday, Sept. 5, on HBO Max<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Friendship | Official Trailer HD | A24\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cmSPwZIZu6Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source starmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBO Max The so-called \u201cmale loneliness epidemic\u201d gets the black-comedy treatment \u2014 and a probable explanation \u2014 in Friendship, In this new-to-streaming film about Craig (Tim Robinson), a tech exec with a beautiful wife (Kate Mara) and a sweet teenage son (Jack Dylan Grazer) \u2014 but zero friends. 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