Credited cast: | |||
Matthew Broderick | ... | Les Moore | |
Alice Eve | ... | Natalie Havington | |
Phil Burke | ... | Skip the Cabbie | |
Gia Crovatin | ... | Dylan Price | |
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Charles Duran | ... | Vince |
Brenden Wedner | ... | Devon Price | |
Kristen DeVore Rakes | ... | Waitress (as Kristen Rakes) | |
Matthew Page | ... | Bartender | |
Fredrick Lopez | ... | Coffee Shop Owner | |
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Miguel Martinez | ... | Head Shop Owner |
Rob Tode | ... | Flight Attendant | |
Chris Ranney | ... | Shuttle Driver | |
Monique Candelaria | ... | Woman in Zorro | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
J.D. Herrera | ... | airline Pilot |
Colleagues Les and Natalie are delayed in the Albuquerque airport. Restless, irritated, and unable to stand the service workers he meets at every turn, Les heads downtown. Natalie refuses to leave his side and discovers that his supposedly aimless wandering has more of a point than he is willing to admit. Natalie conceals secrets of her own, though neither can keep them quiet for long. A rapport grows between this unlikely pair, and soon they search out a spark of excitement in this most unlikely of locales. Written by Production
This is not a great movie, so if you are looking for one, skip it. That being said, it is certainly not a bad film. The acting is good, the subject is interesting and the overall mood is that of a road movie.
You have these two coworkers in some company that is not revealed, as it means nothing to the story, stuck in "Albu-Quirky" until weather gets better in Dallas. One of them is Matthew Broderick, a middle aged man that seems to want to go to the town center for some reason, and the other is Alice Eve, his efficient and professional female counterpart who won't leave him alone. By the time the movie ends, we know more about the two characters and what their inner struggles are and they have bonded as good friends - and not romantically.
Now, the pace is slow, the humor is mostly character based, manifesting as various quirks of the people in the film, the moral is that what happens in Albuquerque stays in Albuquerque and the meat of the film is talking and again talking. I actually went to IMDb to check if it was a Woody Allen movie in which he chose not to star for a change. It is not. It is another Neil LaBute story that he both writes and directs.
While I won't recommend this film, I can't say that you should stay away from it, either. It is an unspectacular road movie, where you get to understand more of human nature.