Boyhood best friends, one of whom has moved away and grown up to become a hot-shot music executive in L.A., while the other has stayed a child in every respect but inches. The problem: he still wants to be best friends. A glimmer of an idea, there. But the heart sinks at the immediate realization that the image is video, not celluloid. (The heart might have been braced if the head had noticed the name of the production company, Blow Up Pictures.) And the heart must absorb further punishment down the road: as when, for instance, the overgrown child makes a brazen pass at his former friend at his own mother's funeral, or when the friend's oblivious fiancé invites the obvious nutball to come visit (and the friend doesn't pipe up to rescind the invitation), or when the titular rhyme is extended to a second verse of "suck and fuck" (stickier and stickier), or when the barely functional misfit writes and produces an autobiographical play entitled Hank and Frank. Mike White, the writer and star of the movie, worked previously on the TV series Freaks and Geeks. It figures. Paul Weitz (incidentally and incongruously the director of American Pie) has a funny moment or two as a wooden would-be actor whom the protagonist insists on casting in the play because of his physical likeness to the former best friend. The latter is played by Chris Weitz, Paul's brother. Directed by Miguel Arteta. (2000) — Duncan Shepherd