That Awkward Moment
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Plot synopsis:
Jason (Zac Efron) is sitting on a bench in New York City waiting for someone to arrive. A voiceover explains that he has been waiting for a long time, but to explain why, he needs to go back to the beginning. Jason begins by telling the audience that every relationship reaches the "So..." moment, where someone in the relationship will want to take the relationship to a more serious place. At that point, Jason knows the relationship is over, as he is not ready to start dating.
Jason is currently working with his best friend Daniel (Miles Teller) at a publishing house designing book covers. Their friend Mikey (Michael B. Jordan), a young doctor who has been married to Vera (Jessica Lucas) since the end of college, comes to them after Vera requests a divorce. The three decide to go out to a bar and celebrate being single. The group meets up with Daniel's female wingman, Chelsea (Mackenzie Davis), as they try to get Mikey's mind off of his wife. Mikey meets a girl with glasses (Kate Simses), while Jason meets Ellie (Imogen Poots), and hits it off with her after teasing another man that was trying to buy her a drink. Mikey gets the girl's number, but decides not to call, resolving to work it out with his wife. Jason sleeps with Ellie, but escapes her apartment when he discovers circumstantial evidence that she may be a prostitute.
The next day, Jason and Daniel make a book cover pitch to a new author, who happens to be Ellie. Jason is able to explain himself and the two begin seeing each other on a regular basis. Meanwhile, Daniel begins to fall for Chelsea, and the two begin seeing one another. Additionally, Mikey meets with his estranged wife, and when she claims that the reason their marriage fell apart is because he is not spontaneous enough, Mikey kisses her, and the two sleep together in the hospital, reigniting their romance. All three friends attempt to keep their relationships a secret, due to their earlier agreement that they would stay single. The relationships all come to a head during Thanksgiving, a time that the three friends usually spend together, but varying circumstances keep them apart. Jason agrees to attend a funeral for Ellie's recently passed father, Mikey plans a Thanksgiving dinner with his wife, and Daniel attends the traditional Thanksgiving feast with Chelsea, free to openly tell the guests about their relationship.
Jason ultimately decides not to attend the funeral, not ready to fully commit to Ellie, and their relationship falls apart. Mikey has a serious conversation with his wife during their dinner, causing her to admit that she no longer loves him. Jason and Mikey head to the dinner where they discover Daniel's relationship with Chelsea, and when he denies that they are dating, his relationship falls apart as well. Although the three fight about keeping their relationships secret, they repair their friendship and try to recover their relationships.
Mikey calls the glasses girl from the bar, setting up a date, and Daniel reunites with Chelsea after being hit by a taxi and ending up in the hospital. However, two months later, Jason has still not reconciled with Ellie, despite still being in love with her. Mikey and Daniel help Jason by encouraging him to tell her of his love at her weekly book readings, which are sparsely attended. However, upon their arrival, the reading is full and Jason is unable to figure out a way to talk with her. He decides to make a scene by improvising a book reading, referencing their first meeting and requesting that they start over by meeting in Gramercy Park.
Returning to the beginning, Jason is waiting for Ellie in Gramercy Park. Ellie arrives and sits on the bench with him, where Jason starts their talk, beginning with, "So..."

Review: High-five!" It's such a dumb premise, and it's like the script keeps wanting you to hate these characters until they "redeem" themselves by the end but again, it's so artificial that you don't buy a second of it.It's certainly watchable due to the three leads, but ultimately you're left wishing the movie was good enough to accommodate for the acting talent.
One would suspect that this film would offer the audience at least a fun experience and a decent amount of humor, but That Awkward Moment fails to deliver in every way.
I love it when Miles does a comedy but has his serious moments like in The Spectacular Now. And Zac Efron.
Miles Teller was great and I now look forward to his work in the future, Imogen Poots was lovely and Zac Efron was great as always.
You need to see it."I mean, it did make me glad I have a bf already and don't have to deal with guys like in the movie but they are funny, attractive and charming.I didn't like Ellie who is a main character.
That Awkward Moment seems like a promising comedy for guys, the raunchy humor, objectifying women and boner pills.
Jordan clearly has a future if he avoids projects like this, and Zac Efron will probably take his perfect face and go back to sweet romantic comedies.
Yes, things happen - Zac Efron is incredibly sexy and the guys look like they had fun together and the acting isn't even bad.
I pretty much just wanted to punch Zac Efron in the face for 80 minutes or so, though the other two actors had some slightly redeeming roles (Miles Teller, and Michael B.
I give it a 4 because I managed to watch the entire thing but that was more or less just because after getting so far in I needed to see how they were going to try and show Zac Efrons character in any kind of positive light..
That awkward moment is a normal title which could describe dating in general and all the things that come with it and for a romantic comedy to be emotional and funny then Tom Gormican got his debut right.I had all the scepticism of every romantic comedy I have watched but this film surpassed them all and it could even be a modern pretty woman.
There is a definite beginning where the old college pals promise to stay single and enjoy all the NYC girls, middle, where each think they can control natural emotions and admit to themselves they can't and ending where they all become happy in love (romantic comedy format )but each part had substance, comedy, emotion and intellect.
Zac Efron, Miles Teller, Michael Jordan, and everybody else just come across as complete amateurs in their 'acting' attempts in this flop of a movie.
Maybe women would wish they did, but it is a horribly uncomfortable watch.It starts promisingly enough with three guys falling out of relationships and going back into single life etc; but it suffers from a desire to be both cute and edgy and cannot decide which stool to sit on and falls neatly between the two.All in all, TAM is about out of step with everything that the Mumblecore genre has tried to do - it lacks both romance and comedy - and while it tries to treat relationships as honest, it seriously comes off as false - and not in a good way.
It had some funny moments and an always great performance by Miles Teller, but it didn't completely feel relatable to me and the characters didn't really seem that believable.
That Awkward Moment tries to portray the struggle of 3 young but flourishing men(Zac Efron, Miles Teller, Mike B.
Jordan) is struck by surprise with an unhappy event in his life, his best friends Jason(Zac Efron) and Daniel(Miles Teller) try to cheer him up and go out partying, when they make a pact to stay single and enjoy life together for as long as possible and deny any kind of serious relationship for as long as they can.Without giving away any spoilers here, you can imagine that just after that incident some of them happen to meet the love of their life.The biggest issue of the movie is, that none of the relations between characters in the movie seem relatable or even believable.
The 3 so called best friends do have some chemistry, but watching their behaviour affect each other in a very "un-best friendly" way makes it hard to believe that they have ever been more than just drinking buddies.This is only topped by the "funny" moments of the movie, who are gulped down your throat with forced situations who are only results of stupidity and miscommunication, or at least so they even claim as their movie characters.Throughout the whole movie you rarely even care about any of the characters and/or their actions.
The largely unfunny That Awkward Moment is the latest film trundling off that particular production line, and it's all the more a waste because its cast includes some of the most exciting young actors working today.When Mikey (Michael B.
Jordan) discovers that his wife Vera (Jessica Lucas) is having an affair, his best buddies Jason (Zac Efron) and Daniel (Miles Teller) rally around.
But their studly pact of solidarity goes awry when Jason begins to fall for the sweet, kooky Ellie (Imogen Poots) and Daniel discovers that he might have a future with Chelsea (Mackenzie Davis), his snappy wing-woman.There's little doubt that writer-director Tom Gormican's debut feature film will be a testosterone-heavy, raunchy treatise on commitment issues and relationship phobia.
That Awkward Moment is an incredibly repulsive and execrable movie, and even though I seriously considered leaving the cinema various times while I was watching it, I didn't do that in order to evaluate all the things this film did wrong.
That Awkward Moment obviously attempted to be a romantic comedy for men, combining the frank sexual discussions from Sex and the City, the vulgarity from American Pie and the picturesque New York setting from Friends.
those were the only moments in which I laughed a little bit, watching Zac Efron trying to "act" and prove he's now a serious performer, far from his Disney past, and ready to show his rear and say the "F" word as many times as possible.
My apologies to his female (and male) fans; Efron might be attractive, but in That Awkward Moment, he looks like a parakeet saying the lines someone wrote for him.
In sight of recent brilliant deconstructions of romantic cinema, such as About Time and The Spectacular Now, the existence of That Awkward Moment is even more unacceptable, because it ignores the evolution of the genre in order to treat the spectators like idiots; as if the jokes about masturbation or Viagra were new or relevant.
After a short college related hiatus from movie reviewing, "That Awkward Moment" is my reintroduction to the garbage that February's Hollywood blockbusters have to offer.I'm not being facetious when I say: Zac Efron, Michael B.
While they each show that they are capable of maintaining a believable bromance-style chemistry on-screen, it is the painfully generic script and the played out concept/nature of "That Awkward Moment" which fails them.Many who see this movie may be shocked to realize that the runtime is only 94 minutes long, since it feels like an eternity to sit through.
The reason for this being, that writer/director Tom Gormican unnecessarily forces three separate, but still very cookie cutter, stories down our throat, which in turn muddies the central "Zac Efron is a good looking guy who is emotionally unavailable, until one special girl changes how he sees love" storyline.
The other two equally Freddie Prinze Jr.-esque plot lines see Teller as a fast talking, wise cracking twenty-something (big surprise there) who falls in love with his female best friend and Jordan having an affair with his ex wife (insert eye roll).
At the end of the day, "That Awkward Moment" seems like an idea from the mind of someone who had just finished watching a marathon of every romantic comedy from 1980 to, oh, let's say, 2006 (circa "Jerry Maguire") and thought it would be a fun idea to write a script regurgitating everything he'd just witnessed...in a 90 minute format, of course.
The entire movie consists of endless sequences of curiously hen-ish (hen-like) banter between the main male characters, as they fast-talk through jokes concerning "Bridget Jones's Diary", wax poetic about the joys of eating ice cream after a bad breakup, partake in extremely long and extremely mindless discussions regarding relationship pitfalls, while every once in a while throwing in a "penis joke" as a way to keep it all "manly".
Not the best comedy, but the cast of the film makes it alive.But the bad timing(execution) and the script makes it hard to watch.Anyway not that bad.Feel good comedy for anyone who likes awkward loves stories.
That awkward moment when a comedy movie isn't funny..
These guys look like they had a lot of fun filming this movie.
But things have a funny way of not working out as we'd like them to be.That Awkward Moment has the look and feel of a Brat Pack type film from the Eighties.
Jordan), Jason (Zac Efron) and Daniel (Miles Teller) are having trouble with women.
When Mikey is served with divorce papers, Jason and Daniel agree to remain single and uncommitted till such time as their cuckolded buddy feels like returning to the field.With screenplay and direction by Tom Gormican, "That Awkward Moment" treads upon some mighty shopworn territory at this point, but the general likability of the stars helps to mitigate some of the familiarity.
This film tells the story of three buddies who navigate their ways through meaningful and disposable relationships."That Awkward Moment" is marketed as a comedy, but I didn't find it funny.
The end credit outtakes don't paint the guys in a good light either, carrying on like their sexist charmless characters do for the duration of the movie, but maybe that's just the method acting they needed to do to stay in these thoroughly unlikable skins..
That Awkward moment, when the movie is all about dirty jokes and 3 actors fitting in with each other perfectly, but then turns into a real sad drama in no time, and things go complicated, but ultimately, everything is solved.
That Awkward Moment(2014) Starring: Zac Efron, Miles Teller, Michael B.
Jordan, Imogen Poots, Mackenzie Davis, Jessica Lucas, Addison Timlin, Josh Pais, Evelina Turen, Tina Benko, Joseph Adams, Eugenia Kuzmina, Emily Meade, and Alysia Reiner Directed By: Tom Gormican Review WHEN YOU REALIZE GETTING SOME MEANS WANTING MORE You know judging by the film's title I knew I wouldn't like this too much,but it does have its moments of unique laughter.
Jordan and Imogen Poots, as for Zac Efron not so much this time around, which is disappointing cause he is an actor I have liked in the past he just has a bad reputation due to those awful High School Musical movies.
This follows by three friends: Jason (Efron), Daniel (Teller), and Mikey (Jordan), as they face dilemmas their dating lives.
This film is directed by first-time director Tom Gormican.Here is the best way to describe this film, if you picture the television series Sex and The City and replace the main characters with males, then you got this movie, only less clever and more clichéd.
Not to say this film isn't funny, this movie did make laugh a few scenes, but it didn't really give its best effort.That Awkward Moment is a comedy that many will watch, but only some will appreciate.
Jordan, who gave a breakout performance in Fruitvale Station also had enough of the charm to bring in some emotionally driven plot material and make it funny.The three men in the lead for this film carried it's somewhat average storyline all the way through, with an exceptionally surprising level of enjoyment provide for my theater full of at least 100+.
The performances in a romantic comedy can never be that good considering the movie does not demand much from its actors.
If you want a slightly below average romantic comedy and you love Zac Efron then this is the movie for you.
Jordan isn't bad, but it's weird to see him go from "Fruitvale Station" to this.Gormican's "That Awkward Moment" is not my kind of romantic comedy.
However, if I want to watch a film that blends bromance with romance, I'll take "I Love You, Man" over "That Awkward Moment.".
I watched That Awkward Moment expecting a good laugh, it was in way funny but much less than expected.
Jordan) reveals his wife wants a divorce, Jason (Zac Efron) and Daniel (Miles Teller) instantly come to his aide.
That is until they find themselves wondering the same question.That Awkward Moment, is a film that tries to perfectly balance and please both sexes by providing the buddy comedy aspect for the guys, and the cheesy romantic-comedy for the girls.
It airs more on the side of comedy than anything else and delivers a lot of attempted jokes; some funny, some not very funny.Jason (Zac Efron) loves being single, probably because he gets to sleep with whomever he wants whenever he wants.
While I have enjoyed Efron's indie character dramas recently, I didn't realize how good he was at over-the-top comedy, and many of Jason's more outlandish stunts resulted in some pretty decent comedy stylings.Seeing as this is a guy's movie, it's rather odd that the better written supporting character was Ellie (Imogen Poots), Jason's love interest.
I definitely wish that they either turned Daniel's and Mikey's story lines into flat-out comedy so it could have been more easily relatable as a buddy comedy, or at least gave them surprising plot turns so the drama (and the not-so-funny jokes) of "That Awkward Moment" wouldn't have fallen as flat..
I could only find a film entitled 'That awkward moment' starring Zac Efron.
That Awkward Moment was a surprise and the film is a bit misleading.The film wants you to believe the movie is about three twenty-something commitaphobes maneuvering through the dating scene trying not to get burned.
In actuality That Awkward Moment is about three twenty-somethings discovering and coming to terms with their needs from love while maneuvering through the dating scene.James, played by Zac Efron, is the smooth talking man with the tagline.
If you think this is all the film is about then you weren't completely paying attention.Yes at the surface That Awkward Moment is a generic romantic comedy from the male perspective about commitment.
Jordan) wife leaves him, his pals Jason (Zac Efron) and Daniel (Miles Teller) take him to a bar.Despite an accord to stay single, that night Jason meets Ellie (Imogen Poots) and Daniel meets Chelsea (Mackenzie Davis) and each start secretly dating.On the sly, Mikey works on his troubled marriage.As bonds begin to form, the boys must face their greatest fear: commitment.But will their disloyalty cost them the girls of their dreams?Despite a novel attempt at categorizing modern dating, That Awkward Moment unfortunately shoehorns in too many raunchy jokes that are neither necessary nor entertaining.Incidentally, in the olden days, men could always tell they were dating because their balls were blue.
Saw That Awkward Moment staring Zac Efron, Miles Teller, and Michael B Jordan tonight at Regal Cinemas and wasn't too satisfied.
The most important message I received was in relation to relationships and what "Ellie" played by Imogen Poots says to "Jason" (Zac Efron) towards the end of the short 94 minute film after her father in the movie, played by Joseph Adams, dies."Being there for someone when they need you, that's all relationships are." This basically is the meaning behind being in a relationship, and it doesn't have to be romantic either.
That's all relationships are.The only thing that I closely related to in this movie was "Jason" played by Zac Efron sitting on a park bench waiting for someone because I once lived in a park on a bench when I was in the U.S. Navy, but I wasn't waiting for anyone!
'THAT AWKWARD MOMENT': Three Stars (Out of Five) Sex comedy flick from first time director/writer Tom Gormican.
That title does fit the storyline more but I think the one they went with is appropriate as well; because the movie is funny at times but it's also more awkward than anything else.Efron plays Jason, Teller plays Daniel and Jordan plays Mikey.
The three lead actors have all been in much better films recently, so you should be able to expect a lot more coming from them, but in this movie their delivery is just 'awkward' (mostly)!
Zac Efron, Michael Jordan, & Miles Teller make a great trio, which definitely adds the humor and interest into the movie.
"That Awkward Moment" is a romantic/sex comedy about three male best friends in their twenties living in New York City.
Zac Efron cursed more than he needed to (I assume to try to distance himself from his High School Musical days.) The characters are boring, the movie is longer than it needed to be and it was just tale of guys who try to have sex with attractive women and end up falling in love with them.
"That Awkward Moment" has everything that I don't like to see in movies, and if I knew that, I wouldn't even think about seeing it.
This twenty-something romantic comedy tries to hard to be a Judd Apatow film, but lacks just about everything good from an Apatow movie.
That is not the case here.We center around Jason (Zac Efron), Daniel (Miles Teller), and Mikey (Michael B.
And Jordan of course, is an amazing actor, but comedy, at least in this movie wasn't his thing.
That Awkward Moment (2014): Dir: Tom Gormican / Cast: Zac Efron, Miles Teller, Michael B.