The Friend (2025) — drama, comedy film. Directed by David Siegel, Scott McGehee. Starring Naomi Watts, Bill Murray, Ann Dowd, Constance Wu. This page maps 4 characters and 4 relationships between them as an interactive character network. Rated 6.7/10 from 124 votes.
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A grieving writer learns to transform an inherited burden into a new story while confronting responsibility, memory, and inevitable loss.
Drama, Comedy · 6.7/10 · 119 min · 2025
New York City writer Iris finds her comfortable, solitary life thrown into disarray after her closest friend and mentor bequeaths her a Great Dane named Apollo. The huge dog immediately creates practical problems for Iris, from furniture destruction to eviction notices, as well as more existential ones. Yet as Iris finds herself unexpectedly bonding with Apollo, she begins to come to terms with her past, and her own creative inner life.
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