Official Trailer
Our Review
- Bill Murray, Naomi Watts, Carla Gugino, Constance Wu, Bing
- April 25th 2025
- 120
- Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Naomi Watts plays a grieving friend who is bequeathed her late mentor’s beloved Great Dane, Apollo, after his death.
If you live in a small New York City apartment, you’ll know that it’s not remotely practical to own an enormous Great Dane.
That’s what Naomi Watts’s character Iris discovers when her best friend and mentor Walter (Bill Murray) dies and she is asked to take care of his beloved Great Dane, Apollo.
The writer and teacher lives in a small one-bed apartment in a building that doesn’t allow pets.
What is she supposed to do? How can she honour one of Walter’s dying wishes and not get evicted from her apartment?
Iris has to figure out that dilemma while caring for the gigantic dog, processing her grief and unpacking her history with Walter.
The Friend sounds like it might be a light-hearted comedy about a solitary woman getting to grips with her new oversized dog but it’s more of a drama about those characters emotionally supporting each other while they mourn the loss of an important figure in their lives.
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