The story of Adult Best Friends
Adult Best Friends is a 2024 comedy that centers on a deceptively simple premise: Katie, the more levelheaded of two lifelong friends, is getting married. She plans a girls' trip to break the news to Delaney, her codependent best friend. Except things don't go as planned. What unfolds over 90 minutes is a comedy about the friction between wanting to grow up and the gravitational pull of a friendship that's defined your entire adult life. The film premiered at Tribeca Festival on June 8, 2024, and arrived on streaming platforms through Gravitas Ventures on February 26, 2025.
The premise taps into something genuinely uncomfortable: the moment when one person in a codependent friendship decides to leave. It's not a dramatic betrayal or a blow-up argument. It's quieter and messier than that — it's someone choosing a different future while the other person isn't ready to let go. The tagline says it all: "He's a crowd." Except there's no he. There's just Delaney, and the space Katie's new life is about to create.
Behind the making of Adult Best Friends
Adult Best Friends was directed by Delaney Buffett, who co-wrote the screenplay alongside Katie Corwin. The two star as fictionalized versions of themselves, which immediately raises an interesting question: how much of this is real? Buffett and Corwin didn't just write a comedy about friendship — they cast themselves in it, collapsing the line between art and life in a way that feels risky and honest. Before the Door Pictures produced the film, and it's that indie sensibility that gives the movie its particular texture. This isn't a studio comedy with focus-grouped humor; it's two people working through something on camera.
The Tribeca premiere in June 2024 positioned Adult Best Friends within the festival circuit's tradition of personal, character-driven comedies. Gravitas Ventures' February 2025 release date gave it a wide streaming window, making it accessible across major OTT services rather than locking it behind a single platform paywall. The film carries an IMDb rating of 4.633/10, which is honest — not every indie comedy lands perfectly, and this one seems to have divided viewers. That's not necessarily a knock. The best comedies about friendship often make some people uncomfortable, because they're touching something real.
What makes Adult Best Friends stand out
What's striking about Adult Best Friends is that it refuses to villainize either character. Katie isn't a traitor for wanting marriage and a different life. Delaney isn't a villain for struggling with the shift. Instead, the film sits in that gray space where both things are true at once — where love and resentment, support and selfishness, coexist. That's harder to pull off in comedy than it sounds. Most buddy comedies resolve by having both characters learn something and hug it out. This one doesn't seem interested in that kind of neat closure.
The performances from Buffett and Corwin carry the weight of that ambiguity. They're not polished actors playing characters; they're people playing versions of themselves, which gives everything an edge of authenticity that's hard to fake. When Delaney spirals or Katie gets defensive, you're watching two people who actually know each other's buttons. The comedy comes from that intimacy — the specific, devastating things you can only say to someone who's known you forever. It's not broad or physical humor. It's the kind of comedy that lives in subtext and silence, in what isn't said.
I keep coming back to the fact that this is a 90-minute film about a friendship crisis, not a romantic comedy or a heist or a road trip adventure. The smallness of the stakes — by mainstream movie standards — is exactly what makes it work. No one's saving the world. No one's learning a life-changing lesson. Someone's just getting married, and someone else is having a hard time with it. That's it. That's the whole story. And somehow, that's enough.
Where to stream Adult Best Friends online
Adult Best Friends is currently available on major OTT services, and Movie OTT tracks its availability across all major streaming platforms so you don't have to hunt for it yourself. Since the film launched through Gravitas Ventures on February 26, 2025, it's had time to roll out across the usual suspects — the platforms you likely already subscribe to. Rather than list every service individually here (they change weekly), the Where to Watch widget at the top of this page will show you exactly which platforms are carrying it right now, and whether it's included with your subscription or available to rent or purchase. That widget updates in real time, so you'll always know the current status without clicking around five different sites.
Frequently asked questions
Q: Is Adult Best Friends based on a true story?
Not exactly. The film stars Delaney Buffett and Katie Corwin playing fictionalized versions of themselves, and they co-wrote the screenplay together. So while the characters are inspired by real people (themselves), the plot is dramatized and shaped for comedy — it's not a documentary of their actual friendship.
Q: Who directed Adult Best Friends?
Delaney Buffett directed the film and co-wrote it with Katie Corwin. It was produced by Before the Door Pictures and released by Gravitas Ventures on February 26, 2025.
Q: How long is Adult Best Friends?
The film runs 90 minutes, making it a lean, tight comedy that doesn't overstay its welcome.
Q: Where did Adult Best Friends premiere?
Adult Best Friends premiered at the Tribeca Festival on June 8, 2024, before arriving on streaming platforms later that year.
Q: What's the IMDb rating for Adult Best Friends?
The film has an IMDb rating of 4.633/10, suggesting mixed audience reception — some viewers connected with its character-driven approach, while others found it didn't land for them.
Final thoughts on Adult Best Friends
Adult Best Friends isn't trying to be a crowd-pleaser, and that's kind of the point. It's a small, specific comedy about two people who've known each other forever and are suddenly discovering they might not be growing in the same direction. The tagline — "He's a crowd" — is a joke, but it's also a truth about codependency, about how one person can become your entire world until they can't anymore. If you're looking for a feel-good buddy comedy with a neat resolution, this probably isn't it. But if you've ever felt the weird grief of a friendship changing, if you've been the one leaving or the one left behind, you'll find something here that stings a little. That's not a flaw. That's the whole thing working exactly as intended.
