Kick! Scream!

I don't know how many of you have heard of this film, Kicking and Screaming but it surely would have helped me to see it last year when I spent many a day waking up confused about life.

Made in 1995 (seems like just yesterday, no?), it's a witty and immensely quotable dramedy staring many indie film actors of the 90s, including Eric Stoltz and Parker Posey. It follows a group of friends who graduate college but can not pull away from college life and face the real world. So they patron the same bars, sleep with undergraduates, and try to find meaning in between waking up and going to sleep.

Eric Stoltz's character, Chet, is the most memorable. His profession: thesis writer. Having attended college for the obligatory four year term, he decides this warm, fuzzy, academic bubble is the place for him, so he stays and prolongs the completion of the thesis. For money, he works as the bartender at the collegetown bar, where he dispenses sage advice to the wayward.

"You wanna know the surest way to make God laugh?" He says. "Have a plan."

Ain't that the truth.