![]() The two friends pick back up on their routine: pizza-puzzle-movie-paddleton in understanding silence. Isn’t that the nature of life?ĭuplass’ character is diagnosed with stomach cancer, and his prognosis is not good. Life is simple and predictable, until it’s not. ![]() After the pizza-puzzle-movie routine, they head out to play paddleton - a game invented by Romano’s character that is the sandlot equivalent of racquetball. The two have spent enough hours watching their favorite Kung-Fu film that they quote along as they watch. Their friendship is based on a shared love for pizza, puzzles and Kung-Fu movies, and a shared disdain for small talk. Romano and co-star Mark Duplass are quirky, single men who live next door to one another in an apartment complex. It was a lazy Saturday night, my daughter was away on a weekend retreat, and my spouse and I, equally filled with comedic expectations prompted by our childhood memories, eagerly clicked to watch Paddleton, a Netflix original movie. As a child of the 90’s, seeing Ray Romano’s name headlining a movie in my Netflix cue filled my mind with expectations of the laugh-out-loud, “oh my word, at least my family isn’t this bad” brand of humor which shot Romano to celebrity status.
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