Just Friends

Just Friends (2005) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

Reynolds's latest venture is Just Friends, and it allows him two different styles of acting: mugging with a fat suit, and then mugging as the complete jerk that fat man is today. Make no mistake about it, there's no real acting here, just striking rubbery facial pose after facial pose. Given the potential Reynolds has shown in some of his non-comedic roles his lack of ability in this movie is just disappointing. There's nothing I hate more then seeing an actor who has so much promise fail to live up to that, but between the box office bomb of Waiting and this film Reynolds will be fortunate if he ever gets a chance at anything but direct to video quality roles.

This romantic comedy stars Ryan Reynolds as a former high school geek turned trendy Los Angeles music executive. When he gets stranded in his New Jersey home town due to bad weather with a superstar singer he is trying to sign, he finds himself reunited with his high school crush and discovers she is his true love. (New Line Cinema)

In 1995, Chris Brander (Ryan Reynolds), an obese, curly haired high school student with a lisp...

Director Roger Kumble shares behind-the-scenes stories.

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The best scenes in "Just Friends" take place offscreen. If they were in the movie, they would involve the makeover of Chris, the hero. As the film opens, he is a fat, unpopular nerd in high school. Flash-forward 10 years, and he is thin, fit, rich, handsome and working in the music industry. Obviously, during the missing decade, he hired Oprah's trainer and studied the self-help tapes sold by that guy on late-night TV -- you know, the guy who will make you into a person willing to accept success. You have to be willing, that's the trick. The guy's methods are proven because he is a success himself, having been willing to make millions by selling his tapes.

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Audience Score: 72%

Directed by Roger Kumble. With Ryan Reynolds, Amy Smart, Anna Faris, Chris Klein. While visiting his hometown during Christmas, a man comes face-to-face with his old high school crush whom he was best friends with -- a woman whose rejection of him turned him into a ferocious womanizer.

Just Friends is a 2005 American romantic comedy and Christmas film directed by Roger Kumble, and starring Ryan Reynolds, Amy Smart, Anna Faris, Chris Klein and Christopher Maquette. The plot focuses on a successful record executive (Reynolds), formerly an overweight high school nerd, who reconnects with his lifelong romantic crush (Smart) after arriving home in New Jersey with a neurotic pop star (Faris) in his company.