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After school—whether that’s high school or college—young people begin to choose their different paths. Some settle down and embrace adulthood. Others flounder, trying to hold on to the past. And in The Get Together, a bunch of very different 20-somethings collide for one night of old friends and new lessons.
The Get Together follows three different stories as they all come together at a Friday night house party. August (Courtney Parchman) is a recent college grad who’s new in town and unemployed. When her roommate (and only friend) takes off for the night, she decides to earn some ride share fares and ends up driving struggling musician Caleb (Alejandro Rose-Garcia) to the party. After he arrives, he runs into the love his life, Betsy (Johanna Braddy), who’s home from New York for the weekend with her boyfriend, Damien (Jacob Artist), who’s planning to propose.
The story of this unexpected night is broken up into three interconnected parts: August’s story, Betsy and Damien’s story, and Caleb’s story. Each one gives a different perspective on the night’s events, with the stories occasionally overlapping along the way. August’s is the story of a lonely young woman who depends a little too much on someone she thinks is her best friend. Betsy reconnects with old friends and begins questioning her choices while Damien tries to get their night back on track. And Caleb struggles with the fact that life isn’t turning out as he expected.
With an ensemble cast like this one, it’s easy to get lost in the different characters and their stories—and to fail to connect with any of them. But the three parts work well together, the characters weaving in and out of each other’s stories, each part offering new insights.
This isn’t the typical high school party comedy—or a wild college party, either. It’s more thoughtful, exploring the challenges that people in their 20s face as they try to get on with the rest of their lives. It’s short and relatively simple—with plenty of laughs along the way as the characters all bumble their way through this crazy Friday night. But while it doesn’t offer a whole lot of answers, it still has a lot to say about those tricky transitional years.
These three stories explore some very different scenarios—and, somewhere during this crazy night, the characters learn some important lessons about themselves and about their place in life. For a party comedy, it’s surprisingly insightful.
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