Laura (Holliday Grainger) and Tyler (Alia Shawkat) have been best friends for a decade. Working minimum wage jobs to live for the nightlife of wine, drugs and the freedom to do whatever they please. But when Laura meets someone and decides to get married the complicated nature of their friendship and the feeling that the party might be over starts to dawn on her.

Based on a novel by Emma Jane Unsworth (who writes the screenplay here), directed by Sophie Hyde and featuring two superb performances by Grainger and Shawkat this film is a female tour de force.

The film very cleverly essays Laura at a crossroads in her life. An aspiring writer unable to make it past the first ten pages of her novel. Someone who parties ridiculously hard (it made my head spin) who is wondering if she has stayed too late at the party. And someone so tied to her best friend she seems unable to contemplate what marriage will mean. Her best friend Tyler on the other hand is insistent that the party must continue and her fear she may lose her friend and drinking partner to real life is palpable.

Holliday Grainger delivers a really great performance as Laura and conveys the complicated contradicting emotions well. Alia Shawkat is great too as the enabling snarky American friend.

At its best it delivers a really down to earth, realistic portrayal of messy real life relationships. At worst it slightly overstays it’s welcome whilst it finds Laura’s nadir and then meaning.