After their graduation, Max, Skippy, Grover and Otis all find themselves in limbo between college and professional life. They do anything they can to keep their lives as static as possible by creating diversions for themselves, like crossword puzzles, television, beer on weekday afternoons, and endless trivia games. Kicking and Screaming is one of those rare films in which you discover something else to relate to every time you see it. In one of my favorite scenes, two of the graduates are strolling down campus when some random guy passes them and says, Hey, and keeps walking. No, says the other.
Stupid freshmen say hi to everybody.
Every time that happens to me on campus walk, I crack up. The three of us still compare our lives to three of the characters. Julie has the hardest time dealing with confrontation, even something as simple as asking for a receipt. I wish we were just going off to war. I wish I was just retiring after a lifetime of hard labor.