Date Night (2010)

"This is the rare screwball comedy that is superbly paced, cleverly plotted and hilarious from start to finish.  Claudia Puig, USA Today
"Regardless of the silliness of the situation - or, in truth, because of it - they're a joy to watch.  Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

Editor's Note This action comedy tells the tale of mild-mannered married couple Phil (Steve Carell) and Claire (Tina Fey), who fear their relationship may be falling into a stale rut. During their weekly date night, they impetuously steal a dinner reservation, which leads to a case of mistaken identity. Turns out the reservation was for a pair of thieves, and now a number of unsavory characters want Phil and Claire killed. If they can survive a wacky life-threatening night, they may just rediscover the passion missing from their marriage. Directed by Shawn Levy, the film co-stars Mark Wahlberg, James Franco, and Kristen Wiig.

	Tina Fey
	Steven Carell
	Mark Wahlberg
	Jimmi Simpson
	Taraji P. Henson
	James Franco - Co-Star
	Darren LeGallo - Co-Star
	Mila Kunis - Co-Star
	J.B. Smoove - Co-Star
	Andy Gill - Stunt Coordinator
	William Fichtner - Co-Star
	Frenkel, Chayim - Co-Star
	Mark Ruffalo - Co-Star
	Leighton Meester - Co-Star
	Stacey Scowley - Co-Star
	Kristen Wiig - Co-Star
	Common - Co-Star
	Ari Graynor - Co-Star
	Jon Bernthal - Co-Star
	Gillian Vigman - Co-Star
	Will.I.Am - Co-Star
	Nick Kroll - Co-Star
	Bill Burr - Co-Star
	Jonathan Morgan Heit - Co-Star
	Olivia Munn - Co-Star
	Joe Starr - Co-Star
	Gal Gadot - Co-Star
	Jahnel Curfman - Co-Star
	Savannah Argenti - Co-Star
	Lauren Weedman - Co-Star
	J. Razor - Co-Star
	Sho Brown - Co-Star
	Stella Angelova - Co-Star
	John Cenatiempo - Co-Star
	Katie Gill - Co-Star
	Michelle Galdenzi - Co-Star
	Lourdes Regala - Co-Star
	Hal Devi - Co-Star
	Dani Playel - Co-Star
	Alandrea Martin - Co-Star
	Joe Caracciolo Jr. - Production Manager/UPM
	Richard Dean - Makeup
	Dean Semler - Director of Photography
	Josh McLaglen - Assistant Director
	Jay Hart - Set Decorator
	Christophe Beck - Composer
	Josh Klausner - Screenwriter
	Paul Hughen - 2nd Unit DOP
	Andrew Rowlands - Camera Operator
	Mia Kovero - Hairstylist
	Barry McQueary - Special Effects Supervisor
	Dana Robin - Production Manager/UPM
	COS FX Films - Visual Effects Designer
	Jack Gill - 2nd Unit Director
	Jack Gill - Stunt Coordinator
	Steve Artmont - Makeup
	Guy Bayo - Hairstylist
	Shawn Levy - Director

Total Film
3 stars out of 5 -- "Carell and co keep mining shards of comic brilliance and, even more unlikely, some disarming glints of emotion." 03/16/2010

USA Today
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[A]n absurd and wildly amusing night to remember. This is the rare screwball comedy that is superbly paced, cleverly plotted and hilarious from start to finish." 04/09/2010

Wall Street Journal
"[S]uperbly absurd....Steve Carell and Tina Fey, are exactly what they seem. They're perfect casting in a short, sweet comedy that makes the most of their genial gifts..." 04/09/2010

Chicago Sun-Times
3 stars out of 4 -- "Steve Carell and Tina Fey play a nice, unassuming couple in DATE NIGHT, and that's one of the reasons the movie works so well." 04/07/2010

A.V. Club
"DATE NIGHT occasionally stumbles onto moments of emotional honesty when the subterranean currents of resentment and boredom in Fey and Carell's marriage puncture the surface." 04/08/2010

Washington Post
3 stars out of 4 -- "Regardless of the silliness of the situation -- or in truth, because of it -- they're a joy to watch." 04/09/2010

Hollywood Reporter
"Ultimately, it's Carell and Fey, displaying an unmistakable chemistry together, who give the film its entertainment value..." 04/05/2010

Entertainment Weekly
"Carell and Fey project an intellectual sharpness and an understanding of what's important in life -- and what's ridiculous....The leads provide their own excellent entertainment..." -- Grade: B 04/16/2010

Rolling Stone
"Best of all is Mark Wahlberg in a nifty bit of self-satire as a shirtless weapons expert." 04/29/2010

Sight and Sound
"There are funny moments....DATE NIGHT remains a reasonably amiable comedy that stressed parents will relate to..." 05/01/2010

Chicago Sun-Times 9 of 10
Steve Carell and Tina Fey play a nice, unassuming couple in Date Night, and that's one of the reasons the movie works so well. Their Phil and Claire Foster are a normal, overworked, sincere, good-natured New Jersey couple whose lives have become routine. But they love one another, and all they really want is to hire a babysitter and enjoy a nice night out on the town...We believe that. We're halfway prepared for a low-key romantic comedy when all hell breaks lose. They pretend to be an absent couple in order to grab a reservation at a trendy restaurant, and two hit men assume they are that couple and topple them into a screwball comedy. Yet all the time Phil and Claire seem like the kind of people who don't belong in a screwball comedy. That's why it's funny. They're bewildered...All of this is a way of saying that Date Night is funny because, against all odds, it is involving. Each crazy step in the bizarre plot made a certain sense because it followed from what went before; it's like the Scorsese masterpiece After Hours. The director is Shawn Levy, who committed the two Night at the Museum movies, and here shows that he is much more successful when he stays far away from CGI. Remember that he also made the entertaining Cheaper by the Dozen, with Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt as a hard-pressed married couple...A movie like Date Night encourages Hollywood comedy to occasionally dial down, and realize that comedy emerges from characters and situations and can't be manufactured from manic stunts and overkill. If you don't start out liking the Fosters and hoping they have a really nice date night, not much else is going to work. - Roger Ebert