Movie·2025·119 min

The Friend

Name: The Friend
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2025-03-28
Duration: 119 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Naomi Watts, Bill Murray, Ann Dowd, Constance Wu, Sarah Pidgeon

The Friend streams in the US on Paramount+, included with Spectrum Stream TV VIP, and on fuboTV and 3 more apps, as of October 5, 2026.

6.7 / 10 · TMDBTomatometer 84%Audience 80%Metacritic 70IMDb 6.4Letterboxd 3.1

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Comedy Drama

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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