Chuck & Buck

Chuck & Buck (2000) is a comedy thriller film written by and starring Mike White, and directed by Miguel Arteta. Buck O'Brien (Mike White), an emotionally arrested amateur playwright, still lives with his mother despite being twenty-seven years old. Buck's mother dies unexpectedly and he invites his close childhood friend Chuck (Chris Weitz) to the funeral. Chuck (who is now calling himself "Charlie") is a successful music industry exec with a fi... more

Chuck & Buck (2000) is a comedy thriller film written by and starring Mike White, and directed by Miguel Arteta. Buck O'Brien (Mike White), an emotionally arrested amateur playwright, still lives with his mother despite being twenty-seven years old. Buck's mother dies unexpectedly and he invites his close childhood friend Chuck (Chris Weitz) to the funeral. Chuck (who is now calling himself "Charlie") is a successful music industry exec with a fiancée named Carlyn (Beth Colt). Chuck and Buck had sexual relations together at the age of 11, but Chuck has repressed these memories and acts as if they had not occurred. Chuck had moved away while they were still children, and Buck appears to not have matured at all from that day Chuck left his life. During their awkward reunion, Buck makes a sexual advance on Charlie in the bathroom. Charlie rebuffs him, and returns to Los Angeles with Carlyn, but not before extending an obligatory invitation for Buck to visit him there. Buck then withdraws... less