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April 4, 2025

At The Movies: Naomi Watts, a Great Dane mourn Bill Murray in ‘The Friend'

By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer

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The film is an adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s National Book Award-winning novel of the same name

Having it all means different things to everyone, but a rent-controlled apartment in Manhattan is probably pretty close to a universal dream — even for non-New Yorkers. It's easy enough, then, to understand the profound conundrum facing Iris (Naomi Watts), a writer and professor who suddenly finds herself with a 150-pound Great Dane ward after an unexpected death in “The Friend.”


 
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