Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of May 4
• 'Friendship' (May 9): Making friends is hard—and especially difficult when you're an adult—but when a charismatic neighbor moves in next to an average suburban dad, the quest for camaraderie causes chaos in both men's lives. Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd headline Andrew DeYoung's comedy.
• 'Clown in a Cornfield' (May 9): Filmmaker Eli Craig, who directed the cult horror comedy 'Tucker & Dale vs. Evil,' returns with a slasher about a town mascot with a hunger for violence.
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