Due Date

Due Date is a 2010 American black comedy/road drama film directed by Todd Phillips and written by Phillips, Alan R. Cohen, Alan Freedland, and Adam Sztykiel. The film follows a man (Robert Downey Jr.) who must get across the country to Los Angeles in time for the birth of his child and is forced to road-trip with an aspiring actor (Zach Galifianakis). Michelle Monaghan, Juliette Lewis, and Jamie Foxx also star. Shot in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Atlanta, Georgia, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the film was released on November 5, 2010.[3] It received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $211 million worldwide.

Due Date
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTodd Phillips
Produced by
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Alan R. Cohen
  • Alan Freedland
Starring
Music byChristophe Beck
CinematographyLawrence Sher
Edited byDebra Neil-Fisher
Production
company
  • Legendary Pictures
  • Green Hat Films
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • October 31, 2010 (2010-10-31) (Night Visions)
  • November 5, 2010 (2010-11-05) (United States)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$65 million[1]
Box office$211.8 million[2]

Plot

Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jr.), a successful architect, is due to fly home from Atlanta to Los Angeles to be with his wife Sarah (Michelle Monaghan), who is about to give birth. On the way to the airport, he has a chance encounter with Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis), who is going to LA to be an actor and is planning to scatter his recently deceased father's ashes at the Grand Canyon. When Ethan misuses the words "terrorist" and "bomb" while talking to Peter, they are both escorted off the plane. This is only the first of a series of misadventures caused by the drastically dysfunctional Ethan. Peter, now on the No Fly List and missing his wallet, agrees to drive with Ethan to Los Angeles.

Ethan stops to buy marijuana, and Peter discovers that they are nearly out of money. Since Peter has no I.D., he gets his wife to wire the money to Ethan, but discovers Ethan had the money wired to his stage name instead of his legal name. When the Western Union employee (Danny McBride) refuses to accept Ethan's "Stage name I.D." it leads to a violent altercation.

After a night at a rest stop, Peter decides to drive off and abandon Ethan, but realizes that he has forgotten to unload the ashes of Ethan's father when he left. This causes him to wrestle with his conscience, before deciding to return. Ethan takes over driver duty so Peter can get some rest after a sleepless night, but he falls asleep at the wheel and crashes the car. Peter calls his friend, Darryl (Jamie Foxx), for assistance and decides to part with Ethan, but Darryl persuades Peter otherwise. They arrive at Darryl's house for rest. During their conversation, Ethan discovers hints that Sarah may have been unfaithful, triggering Peter to question Sarah's timely pregnancy. Darryl throws both of them out after mistakenly drinking some of Ethan's father's ashes, which were stored in a coffee tin.

When Darryl lets them use his Range Rover to make the rest of the trip, Ethan mistakenly drives to the Mexico–United States border. Despite assuring Peter that he'll handle the situation, Ethan flees, and Peter is arrested for possession of marijuana. The Mexican Federal Police lock Peter up, but Ethan steals a truck and breaks him out, causing several car crashes in the process.

Peter decides to stop at the Grand Canyon for Ethan, who finally scatters his father's ashes. Peter then confesses that he tried to leave Ethan at the rest area. Ethan makes a confession of his own: he has had Peter's wallet and I.D the entire time. Peter seemingly forgives him but then attacks Ethan in a rage, but is interrupted by a call from Sarah, who has just gone into labor. Peter and Ethan leave for California. Ethan finds a gun in the truck and he accidentally shoots Peter. Arriving at the hospital where Sarah is in labor, Peter passes out from loss of blood.

Sarah delivers the baby safely, and Peter expresses his discomfort at his new daughter being named Rosie Highman. Ethan leaves while telling Peter to call him. At the end, Ethan guest stars on an episode of his favorite television program, Two and a Half Men with Peter and Sarah watching it in bed with their daughter.

Cast

Angus T. Jones was in the Two and a Half Men scene as Jake Harper, but the scene was cut short, and his cameo was not shown in the original run. Alan Arkin filmed scenes as Peter's long lost father, but they were not left in the final cut of the film.

Marketing

The first trailer was released July 14, 2010. It was seen with Inception, Dinner for Schmucks and The Other Guys. The international trailer was released on September 2, 2010, and the full length trailer was released online on September 16, 2010. It was shown before The Town, and Life as We Know It.

Previews for the film feature the songs "New Moon Rising" by Wolfmother and the original version of "Check Yo Self" by Ice Cube.

In the film, Ethan is a huge fan of the sitcom Two and a Half Men. He also mentions that he started a website called itsrainingtwoandahalfmen.com. As a joke, a website was actually launched with the same name.[4] Ethan is also shown in the film as guest starring in a Two and a Half Men episode. This was a special short produced for the film's use, and did not become part of an official episode of the sitcom. The short was partially shown in the film and the full short is available online.

Soundtrack

Due Date (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) was released on November 2, 2010 by WaterTower Music.

Due Date (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Soundtrack album by
Various Artists
ReleasedNovember 2, 2010
Recorded2010
LabelWaterTower Music

iTunes version
No.TitleArtistLength
1."Hold On, I'm Comin'"Sam & Dave2:31
2."New Moon Rising"Wolfmother3:47
3."Is There a Ghost"Band of Horses2:59
4."People Are Crazy"Billy Currington3:51
5."White Room"Cream4:58
6."This Is Why I'm Hot"MIMS4:17
7."Sweet Jane"Cowboy Junkies3:35
8."Amazing Grace"Rod Stewart2:02
9."Check Ya Self 2010" (feat. Chuck D with Lisa Kekaula)Ice Cube3:25
10."Glaucoma"Christophe Beck2:13
11."A Good Sign"Christophe Beck1:36
12."Ethan's Theme"Christophe Beck1:19
Additional songs

The following songs are not included in the soundtrack, but they appear in some parts of the film:

Release

Box office

Due Date grossed $100.5 million in the U.S. and Canada and $111.2 million in other territories for a total of $211.8 million worldwide, against a production budget of $65 million.[2]

The film earned $12.2 million at the North American domestic box office on its release day and $43.5 million on its first week, placing behind Megamind but was number one in the UK for two consecutive weekends. On Monday, November 8, 2010, it went up to #1 overtaking Megamind. On Friday, November 12, it went down to #3 behind Unstoppable and Megamind. On Monday, November 15, it went up to #2 behind Unstoppable. On Wednesday, November 24, it went down to #8 behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, Tangled, Burlesque, Megamind, Love & Other Drugs, Unstoppable and Faster. It closed in theaters on January 27, 2011.

Reception

Due Date received average reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 40% "rotten", or a 5.2/10 rating, based on 191 reviews. The site's consensus is: "Shamelessly derivative and only sporadically funny, Due Date doesn't live up to the possibilities suggested by its talented director and marvelously mismatched stars."[5] Metacritic gives the film a "mixed or average" score of 51, based on reviews from 39 critics.[6]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two and a half stars out of a possible four, noting "The movie probably contains enough laughs to satisfy the weekend audience. Where it falls short is in the characters and relationships." Ebert compared Due Date to the 1987 film Planes, Trains and Automobiles, but bemoaned that Due Date could have learned and offered more.[7]

Home media

Due Date was released on DVD and Blu-ray on February 22, 2011.[8]

gollark: What software it uses and how it's put together.
gollark: Due to things, I am considering expanding use of the osmarks.net blogoctahedron™: would people be interested in (a) post(s) on the osmarks.net tech stack?
gollark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains
gollark: ++search wikipedia tld
gollark: Apparently. I think .gay too.

References
  1. Fritz, Ben (November 4, 2010). "Movie projector: Hollywood looking for huge weekend as 'Megamind,' 'Due Date' and 'Colored Girls' open". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. Retrieved November 5, 2010. The movie is relatively expensive for a comedy, with a budget of about $65 million split between Legendary Pictures with Warner.
  2. "Due Date (2010)". Box Office Mojo. Amazon.com. Retrieved January 22, 2011.
  3. 'Iron Man' Robert Downey Jr. Joins Zack Galifianakis In The Todd Phillips Comedy 'Due Date'. MTV.com. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
  4. "It's Raining Two and A Half Men". Archived from the original on July 13, 2011. Retrieved 2011-12-17.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link). Retrieved 2011-01-10.
  5. "Due Date Movie Reviews, Pictures". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved March 8, 2020.
  6. "Due Date Reviews, Ratings, Credits". Metacritic. CBS. Retrieved September 18, 2013.
  7. Roger Ebert. "Due Date :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews". Chicago Sun Times. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
  8. http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Due-Date-Blu-ray/19307/
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.