‘Mutual Friends’ filmed in Brooklyn, stars Brooklyn-based actors
“Mutual Friends,” which was released online on July 1, intertwines 10-plus New Yorkers and at least five complicated relationships into an 85-minute, Brooklyn- and New York-based movie that Director Matthew Watts said originated two years ago as he was watching “Pulp Fiction.”
While there are no Los Angeles mobsters or pulp of any form in “Mutual Friends” (although, strangely enough, the plot involves a cake shaped as a certain male body part), the two distinct films correlate in their setup; both movie plots depict individual stories that intersect at one central place.
After a series of picturesque shots of Brooklyn and Manhattan, “Mutual Friends” opens with quirky Liv (Caitlin Fitzgerald) as she composes and plays a birthday song —clumsily and not quite in tune — for her straight-laced and successful fiancé, Christoph (Cheyenne Jackson). Once Christoph leaves for work, Liv begins to set up his surprise party where all of the characters’ storylines later crash.