Word: chucks
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...dinner, we cannot remember the name of the sculptor who did the Statue of Liberty. I tell a story about Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, and about their creator, the great animator Chuck Jones, who has a cartoon on his office wall, captioned "Agnostic Fleas," showing two fleas standing perplexedly in a wasteland filled with enormous stalks that turn out to be huge hairs; one flea says disconsolately to the other, "Sometimes I wonder if there really...
...writer, Mike White, who was also a producer on the flop-d'estime TV show Freaks and Geeks. Buck is in his late 20s, but his development was arrested in preadolescence. Jobless, he lives with his mother, who dies in the opening sequence. He invites his old pal Chuck (Chris Weitz) to the funeral...
...Chuck, who now prefers to be called Charlie, has not seen Buck in 15 years, has a fast-track job in the Los Angeles music industry and a seemingly strong relationship with his fiance Carlyn (Beth Colt), and has long since put aside childish things, especially his boyhood fling with Buck, who gropes him at the funeral. Undeterred by Chuck's resistance, Buck moves to Los Angeles, where Chuck becomes his occupation. Make that preoccupation. He intrudes on him at his home and his office; he peers through the window when Chuck and Carlyn make love; he mistakes their puzzled...
...unshakable nerd who refuses to take the hint of our indifference, even when it escalates to rudeness. This nerd, though, is in a class by himself. He writes and produces what seems to be an expressionistic but childlike play about their former relationship. When it's over, he offers Chuck a deal: one night of grown-up love and then he will leave him alone...
...this time, the deal looks like the only way out for Chuck, and we are given to understand that they both emerge from the experience better men. Chuck and Carlyn get married, and Buck is seen at their wedding sidling up to a more appropriate object for his affections. We, however, are left in a somewhat larger emotional limbo...