Follow an aimless college grad who pursues his dream girl at a wild Labor Day weekend party. He, his twin sister and their best friend struggle with their burgeoning adulthood over the course of the night.
If, as it says in the press notes, this is an homage to the era of John Hughes, then this isn't even as acute as Hot Tub Time Machine or The Wedding Singer. Almost everyone is ten years older than their screen character, and why would a straight arrow like Grace ever pal up with Fogler, a microwaved John Belushi in Animal House mode?
If you like your comedies scented with the heady aroma of Aqua Net, you’ll want to see this. A potential cult hit in the making, call this Dazed And Confused for the Members Only set.
Though the leads click charmingly, this feels exactly like a Noughties teen comedy in yuppie drag.
Well, it isn't too bad; a film with its heart in the right place, though given that this is avowedly a "personal" project for Grace and his friend and co-producer Gordon Kaywin, I would be interested to hear the real story that inspired it.
It’s formulaic and frequently mistakes loud characters for endearing comic losers.
Limp rom-com with no laughs.
From the opening blast of Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" you know Michael Dowse's drippy 1980s comedy romance is going to be a dud.
It's not pure comedy gold but there are plenty of chuckles.
Don't take anyone to this.
[It fails] to evoke the [80s] with any authority, while the characters' mild nobody-really-understands-me angst grows more intolerable as the film's one-night-can-change-your-life structure progresses.
The air of pointlessness is thickened by the actors being so much older than their characters, and by the 1980s setting, which contributes nothing except an excuse to put "Come On Eileen" on the soundtrack.
Not a journey to the end of the night that I'd recommend.
A crass and tiresome teen movie.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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