Naomi Watts shares the spotlight with a Great Dane in this sweet, smart, very New York tale of grief and companionship.

The Friend” is about animals, and humans, and grief, and understanding. The Monitor’s critic says the film, based on an award ...

TV in its facile depiction of Walter’s many wives and veering tonally from too broad to totally mawkish (the score wants to arm-wrestle tears out of you), The Friend is all soft edges. A passing ...

The Friend Rated R for a sexual reference and language Rotten Tomatoes Score: 85% In Theaters Based on the award-winning novel by Sigrid Nunez, Naomi Watts plays a single novelist living in a small ...

Janice (Judy Greer) is struggling; she moves through life as if in a haze, unable to let go of her anger and frustration. While her husband (Alexander Skarsgård) has found refuge at a new church, ...