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A look at the friendship between two guys that spans over many years.
(R, 94 min.)
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Kyle and Mike are best friends who share a close bond — until Mike sleeps with Kyle's fiancée. The Climb is about a tumultuous but enduring relationship between two men across many years of laughter, heartbreak and rage. It is also the story of real-life best friends who turn their profound connection into a rich, humane and frequently uproarious film about the boundaries (or lack thereof) in all close friendships.
[Metacritic]
Starring: Michael Angelo Covino, Kyle Marvin, Gayle Rankin
Director: Michael Angelo Covino
Genre(s): Comedy, Drama
"Thrilling and charming in a way that very few comedies ever are."
— Nick Allen, RogerEbert.com
"Tragedy and slapstick run through the film and it is very funny."
— Cath Clarke, The Guardian
"Covino’s film is an exhilarating anomaly, if not a wake-up call for the visual potential of heartfelt comedy."
— Nick Allen, RogerEbert.com
"Covino’s brilliant comedy is original and smartly entertaining: a celebration of male friendship in all its ups and downs."
— John Bleasdale, CineVue
"Superbly written and performed by actual friends Kyle Marvin and Michael Angelo Covino, The Climb is a smart, funny, small-scale delight. More please."
— Ian Freer, Empire
"You realise that what you're watching is an epic disguised as scuffed indie comedy, a portrait of adult friendship in which no one ever completely grows up."
— Danny Leigh, Financial Times
"Beautifully written and performed by the director and real-life BFF Kyle Marvin, Covino’s film gets precisely the balance of dependency and denial that keeps a bad bromance afloat."
— Guy Lodge, Variety
"Covino's novice direction is alarmingly assured, mixing together musical diversions, lip-synching dance sequences and audacious tracking camera moves with the ease of an in-form Scorsese."
— Kevin Maher, Times (UK)
"In short, the driving factor of Covino’s relentlessly funny, affecting comedy is neither cinematographic ingenuity, nor its tongue-in-cheek facetiousness, though these elements surely help. No, what’s most persuasive about Kyle and Mike is, simply put, Kyle and Mike themselves."
— Caroline Tsai, The Playlist
