“Beautifully written and performed…Covino’s film gets precisely the balance of dependency and denial that keeps a bad bromance afloat.”
– Guy Lodge, Variety

Elegantly structured in seven chapters, the absorbing saga of Kyle and Mike’s close yet fractured friendship elapses over a decade of conflict, growth, boozy showdowns, and awkward apologies in writer/director/star Michael Angelo Covino’s remarkable and assured debut feature traversing this tragicomic reinvention of the buddy movie. The Climb is about a tumultuous but enduring relationship between two men across many years of laughter, heartbreak, and rage. It is also the story of real-life best friends who turn their profound connection into a rich, humane and frequently uproarious film about the boundaries (or lack thereof) in all close friendships. Rated R. (US 2020) 94 min