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Due Date

  • 2010
  • R
  • 1h 35m
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Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis in Due Date (2010)
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High-strung father-to-be Peter Highman is forced to hitch a ride with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay on a road trip in order to make it to his child's birth on time.High-strung father-to-be Peter Highman is forced to hitch a ride with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay on a road trip in order to make it to his child's birth on time.High-strung father-to-be Peter Highman is forced to hitch a ride with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay on a road trip in order to make it to his child's birth on time.

  • Director
    • Todd Phillips
  • Writers
    • Alan R. Cohen
    • Alan Freedland
    • Adam Sztykiel
  • Stars
    • Robert Downey Jr.
    • Zach Galifianakis
    • Michelle Monaghan
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.5/10
    365K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    4,193
    422
    • Director
      • Todd Phillips
    • Writers
      • Alan R. Cohen
      • Alan Freedland
      • Adam Sztykiel
    • Stars
      • Robert Downey Jr.
      • Zach Galifianakis
      • Michelle Monaghan
    • 382User reviews
    • 308Critic reviews
    • 51Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 7 nominations total

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    Robert Downey Jr.
    Robert Downey Jr.
    • Peter Highman
    Zach Galifianakis
    Zach Galifianakis
    • Ethan Tremblay
    Michelle Monaghan
    Michelle Monaghan
    • Sarah Highman
    Jamie Foxx
    Jamie Foxx
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    Brody Stevens
    Brody Stevens
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    Jakob Ulrich
    • Patrick
    Naiia Ulrich
    • Alex
    Todd Phillips
    Todd Phillips
    • Barry
    Bobby Tisdale
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    • Carl
    Sharon Conley
    Sharon Conley
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    Nathalie Fay
    Nathalie Fay
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    Emily Wagner
    Emily Wagner
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    Steven M. Gagnon
    Steven M. Gagnon
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    • Director
      • Todd Phillips
    • Writers
      • Alan R. Cohen
      • Alan Freedland
      • Adam Sztykiel
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    7jjcuse11

    Don't expect expect The Hangover or compare to PT&A'S and you might like it.

    I only am writing this review basically to respond to the other reviews posted. While i have to admit that Due Date is not in my list of top ten movies of all time, but it seems that a majority of the other reviewers of this film are comparing it to Plains Trains and Automobiles. Which i might add is in my top 3 comedies of all time. (Huge John Candy fan) This is suppose to be a review of Due Date. Not a review of comparing Due Date to PT&A. I think it is pretty obvious that PT&A is a classic and was the type of film that comes along too few and far between and is hard to compile the amount of talent shown by two leading roles for a comparison. With that said, I can agree that Phillips' seems to be getting a little complex with his story lines (this one we have seen before) and understandably after the success of The Hangover and previous comedies this will be compared to and for the common movie goer siting down to watch Due Date with those other story lines and plots in mind will be disappointed. Once you accept the story line and look into the characters i feel RDJ and ZG make the most of there characters come to life and deliver each role quite well. Remember folks, this is a comedy. Overall i would describe Due Date as a wild road trip for two strangers with completely different personalities with some twists and turns along the way that will make you laugh. Not a great movie. But well performed and should enjoy if you go into it with the right mind set.
    5Kamurai25

    "Before the Hangover"

    Decent watch, probably won't watch again, and can't whole-heartedly recommend.

    This is an interesting movie to look at critically. The writing, mostly in the character work, feels weak. It actually has an interesting plot, for the most part: an idiot, through deceit, drags a jerk with him on a cross country road trip. It's a decent story, and I'd like to think of it as an spiritual predecessor to "The Hangover". The problem I have with it is that it feels like if there were better actors, then the characters would sell better. Then I remember it was Robert Downey Jr and Zach Galifinakas, and I'm not sure how much "better" you can get for these characters, meaning that they've probably already elevated the characters somewhat.

    It feels like a lot of the movie is unnecessary, like antithetical Chekov's guns. Either it's for a tiny one time joke with little payoff, or it's part of a lot of work for situational comedy.

    An example would be the dog, it really only has one significant joke in the entire movie (maybe 2), otherwise it's just a lot of maintenance.

    The coffee can on the other hand is repetitively used to throughout the movie as it's part of the character themes.

    I'm not saying it's not funny, if you like "Anger Management", then you might like this one, but I just think there are a lot better movies out there to watch.
    The_Film_Cricket

    A comedy of mass frustration

    Due Date is a comedy of mass frustration. I'm not just talking about what happens to the characters in the film, no, this is simply a frustrating comedy sit through. Here is an all-too-familiar road picture that pins together two people who hate each other and sends them cross-country on a madcap adventure. Needless to say, one guy is an average Joe that we identify with and the other is a blithering idiot who makes every moment a nonstop irritation. If this sounds, at all like the great Planes, Trains and Automobiles, you're not far off the mark.

    That earlier movie was a great American comedy. It was funny and endearing because we cared about both parties. We wanted to see Steve Martin get home and we cared about John Candy's shower ring salesman despite all his goofy inefficiencies. Here the Martin role is filled by a very sour Robert Downey Jr. as Peter Highman, an uptight yuppie on his way from Atlanta to Los Angelas to witness the birth of his first child. The John Candy role is filled by Zach Galifianakis, as Ethan, an irritant on two legs who gets Peter thrown off the plane when he won't stop saying the word "bomb". Neither of these two characters are really funny enough to spend any amount of time with.

    Peter is probably a nice guy. He seems to care about his wife but he spends the entire movie in a state of boiling anger and that's probably because he is saddled with a guy so insufferable that he could turn even the gentlest soul into a state of rage. Through a series of mishaps, mostly thanks to Ethan's idiocy, they get into every kind of trouble including: A fight with a veteran in a wheelchair; vehicular theft at the Mexican border; a shooting; a car accident; and questions about whether Peter's wife is pregnant with his child.

    None of this stuff is really funny. It all seems episodic and some of it is quite violent and unpleasant. I think some of the comic energy that should make these scenes work is missing. We cringe when we should be laughing. I also think that most of the film's failure falls on the head of actor Zach Galifianakis who always seems to illicit the same effect on me as a noisy car alarm. I have seen him in three films now and he always plays the same annoying character: An oddball doofus who has a never-ending repertoire of annoying and disgusting habits. Ethan is a pothead with an annoying dog and even more annoying habits - all of which get under Peter's skin and sadly ours too. His presence, I swear, brings this movie to a dead stop and since he occupies at least 90% of it, you can imagine how unpleasant this movie is.

    Due Date was directed by Todd Phillips, who made The Hangover, one of my favorite films of recent years. What that film had was a collection of likable characters and a narrative structure that pulled us from beginning to end. Here his story an episodic series of annoying moments and mean-spirited characters. It ranges from disgusting to irritating to violent and finally soft and cuddly. The problem is that very very rarely ever funny.

    ** (of four)
    6Jonathon_Natsis

    Planes, Trains and Labour Pains

    If there was one downside to come out of director Todd Phillips' magnum opus The Hangover, it's that every film he would lend his name to in the future would inevitably be compared to it, and it's fair to say Due Date comes up short in that regard. Saying that, the film has its strengths and the cast delivers an above-average final product, but it does little to stand out amongst most other comedies released in the last decade.

    Downey Jnr. plays highly-strung expectant father Peter Highman, whose confrontation with Galifianakis' Ethan Tremblay at the airport results in both men being placed on a no-fly list. With no identification or cash to his name, Peter has no choice but to hitch a ride with Ethan if he wants to get to Los Angeles in time for the birth of his child. Ethan, meanwhile, has plans of making it big in Hollywood as a recurring character on Two And A Half Men, thus fulfilling his lifelong dream.

    It almost goes without saying that this film would fall flat if chemistry between the two leads was lacking. Thankfully, both Downey Jnr. and Galifianakis, two of the more comically capable actors of their generation, do a respectable job with their characters. Ethan is particularly well crafted as an individual both physically and verbally funny, but at the same time one who harbours a deep emotional emptiness due to an innate need to make his late father proud of him.

    Due Date must have felt like a reunion of sorts for Downey Jnr., who appears alongside three former co-stars in Michelle Monaghan (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), Jamie Foxx (The Soloist) and my favourite actress Juliette Lewis (Natural Born Killers). The first two fill their roles to satisfaction, but I was disappointed with how Lewis was used. Portraying a drug dealer supplying Ethan, who uses marijuana to 'deal with his glaucoma', her role is disappointingly minor, especially considering rumours that her character was meant to be an extension of Heidi from Old School, an earlier, and very funny, Phillips comedy.

    For the most part, the film operates as a road trip comedy with a simple plot, which allows it to deviate from the story frequently to deliver humorous set pieces not at all relevant to the final scene. The best example is an escape plan hatched by Ethan to break Peter out of a detention centre when he is suspected of being an illegal immigrant. Of course, the scene plays out in the most ridiculous fashion, and requires a massive suspension of disbelief. But, pointless as they may be, these gags are tolerable due to the light-hearted context of the film, even if some jokes are hit and miss depending on your taste in humour and sense of political correctness.

    More than once, you get the impression that Phillips and the rest of the crew are just going through the motions, putting a slightly new spin on otherwise recycled comedy. Overall, however, Due Date concludes nicely, delivering no more and no less that what should be expected.

    *There's nothing I love more than a bit of feedback, good or bad. So drop me a line on jnatsis@iprimus.com.au and let me know what you thought of my review.*
    7masonsaul

    Really good mean spirited comedy

    Due Date takes a while to really find it's footing and it's humour but once it does it offers a really good comedy with enough great laughs and memorable set pieces in director and co-writer Todd Philips' classically mean spirited style as well as surprising emotional heft.

    Robert Downey Jr. Gives a great lead performance, successfully leaning into a different kind of comedy. Zach Galifianakis plays squarely to his strengths with a character that is almost identical to his iconic Hangover character, for better and for worse.

    Todd Philips' direction is really good, the film looks nice overall with some surprising scale and relatively epic set pieces. The soundtrack is another memorable part, a solid selection fo songs that definitely make the adventure more enjoyable.

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    • Trivia
      Alan Arkin filmed scenes as Peter's (Robert Downey, Jr.'s) long lost father, but they did not make the final cut of the film.
    • Goofs
      The Mexican police would never have followed them across the border into the United States since it is out of their jurisdiction.
    • Quotes

      Ethan Tremblay: [from trailer]

      [talking to a can full of his dad's ashes]

      Ethan Tremblay: Dad... You were like a father to me.

    • Connections
      Featured in The Rotten Tomatoes Show: Salt/Ramona and Beezus/Summer Doc Round-Up (2010)
    • Soundtracks
      Hold On I'm Comin'
      Written by Isaac Hayes and David Porter

      Performed by Sam & Dave

      Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp.

      By Arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing

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    • Release date
      • November 5, 2010 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Warner Bros. (United States)
    • Languages
      • English
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Todo un parto
    • Filming locations
      • Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
    • Production companies
      • Warner Bros.
      • Legendary Entertainment
      • Green Hat Films
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    • Budget
      • $65,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $100,539,043
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $32,689,406
      • Nov 7, 2010
    • Gross worldwide
      • $211,780,824
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • SDDS
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      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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