This is a movie and grown men who one month a year drop everything and resume the game that they played as children. So it is highly unrealistic (when was the last time you had an entire month off of work?), but there you have it (and in fact, this is based on a true story).
The game began when they were nine years old. Thirty-five years later,
it’s still going strong as five lifelong friends dedicate one month each
year to playing tag, the old grade-school classic most kids leave on the schoolyard — right
around the time they stop believing that girls have “cooties.” If that
sounds like the setup for the ultimate man-child comedy, you wouldn’t be
far from the mark, although the casting of Jon Hamm and Jeremy Renner, who have credible dramatic role histories, is inspired. And
yet, nestled amid all the runaway immaturity of this loosely
reality-based laugher, “Tag” delivers the compelling case that anything
that manages to keep a bunch of childhood buddies in contact over the
course of more than three decades can’t be all bad.
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