Share Release Date: April 9, 2010
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: Shawn Levy
Screenwriter: Josh Klausner
Starring: Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Mark Wahlberg,
James Franco, Leighton Meester, Common, Taraji
Henson, Kristen Wiig, Ray Liotta, Mila Kunis,
Mark Ruffalo, William Fichtner, Olivia Munn
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for sexual and crude content
throughout, language, some violence and a drug
reference)
Official Website: DateNightthemovie.com
Claire and Phil Foster
are a suburban couple slogging through their
daily lives and marriage. Even their date nights
of dinner and a movie have become routine. To
reignite the marital spark, they visit a trendy
Manhattan bistro, where a case of mistaken
identity hurtles them through the city at
breakneck speeds, into non-stop adventure.
Remembering what made them so special together,
Phil and Claire take on a couple of corrupt
cops, a top-level mobster and a crazed cabbie as
their date becomes a night they will never
forget
EN
5 Second Review:
Carell and Fey are at the top of their games
and it shows through. It could have been not so
good with any other two stars as the material is
iffy at best, the roles fit them perfectly
though, making this a fun date night for us.
Opening Night Audience Rating: Opening night audience
rating is based on feedback from our partner
cinemas and is not a reflection of the quality
of a movie, but the audience who attended the
movies enjoyment
Tina Fey and Steve Carell are two of the most charming
performers in entertainment today. Their goofy
attractiveness makes them a perfect couple in Date Night:
an unremarkable husband and wife from New Jersey, they get
mistaken for crooks in Manhattan, sending them on a wild
night replete with snooty wait staff, crooked cops,
glitter-specked strippers, a shirtless superspy (Mark
Wahlberg, as buff as ever), and a preposterous car chase.
The movie makes no effort to be remotely plausible and the
last third really goes off the rails, and it would probably
be better served by less familiar faces in minor roles (bit
parts are played by Mark Ruffalo, Kristen Wiig, Common,
James Franco, Mila Kunis, William Fichtner, and Ray Liotta).
It's disappointing that the dialogue doesn't crackle the way
it does on 30 Rock or The Office. But Fey and
Carell carry the movie along through sheer nerdy pluck.
Rarely does a couple in a movie seem genuinely devoted to
each other, not out of wild passion, but for all the things
that a real marriage is built on: patience, shared humor, a
willingness to deal with day-to-day annoyances, and simple
affection. Fey and Carell seem like a couple you'd actually
enjoy going out to dinner with. In today's world, that's
more romantic than sunsets and bouquets of roses.
Release Date: April 9, 2010
EN
5 Second Review:
Carell and Fey are at the top of their games
and it shows through. It could have been not so
good with any other two stars as the material is
iffy at best, the roles fit them perfectly
though, making this a fun date night for us.
