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- 2015
- R
- The Orchard
- 1 h 19 m
- 2015
- R
- The Orchard
- 1 h 19 m
Summary Alex (Adam Scott), Emily (Taylor Schilling), and their son, RJ, have recently moved to Los Angeles’s Eastside from Seattle. Feeling lost in a new city, they are desperate to find their first new friends. After a chance meeting with Kurt (Jason Schwartzman) at the neighborhood park, they gladly agree to join family pizza night at his home...
Directed By: Patrick Brice
Written By: Patrick Brice
- 2015
- R
- The Orchard
- 1 h 19 m
- 2015
- R
- The Orchard
- 1 h 19 m
The Overnight
65
7.0
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Summary Alex (Adam Scott), Emily (Taylor Schilling), and their son, RJ, have recently moved to Los Angeles’s Eastside from Seattle. Feeling lost in a new city, they are desperate to find their first new friends. After a chance meeting with Kurt (Jason Schwartzman) at the neighborhood park, they gladly agree to join family pizza night at his home...
Directed By: Patrick Brice
Written By: Patrick Brice
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
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81% Positive
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19% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
65
81% Positive
26 Reviews
26 Reviews
19% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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This is one terrifically twisted parental play date.
Brice stops his story just before it becomes redundant – most filmmakers these days can’t say that – and although I didn’t believe the outrageous next-to-last scene, he caps it with a laugh-out-loud joke.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 45 User Ratings
7.0
62% Positive
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
31% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
7% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 45 User Ratings
7.0
62% Positive
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
31% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
7% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
Writer and director Patrick Brice proves once again that he can create original and excellent movies in a time where Hollywood seems out of ideas. After blowing my mind with the horror-comedy "Creep" I was curious to see what Brice could do with just focusing on one genre with "The Overnight." The results are astounding.
It's become a trend in modern, big-budget comedies to take a normal premise and attempt to make it hilarious by having the characters get involved in increasingly insane situations, ever since The Hangover back in 2009. As more and more comedies attempt to do this the results seem to grow more and more disappointing outside of the rare exception.
Brice kind of the same thing here. However the reason it succeeds is that no matter how crazy things get onscreen it all feels grounded in reality. This is stuff you could see happening in real life if the right people got together. Heck, this stuff most likely happens more often in real life than many of us know. That's what makes this twisted adult play date all the more compelling and hilarious.
Recycled jokes are aplenty in comedies nowadays. So it's refreshing to see a movie do things you just don't expect to see. Of course none of those new ideas would matter if they weren't funny. Luckily for us Patrick Brice is kind **** with comedy here and has an incredibly talented cast to back him up.
Not only is this movie funny, but it's real and has a lot of heart to go along with it's shocking gags. Commitment, love, lust, body issues, and that thought in the back of every married couples mind that says "I'm not totally happy with my marriage" are all on display. It's a story about staying true to your partner and working past your issues, as well as a tale about having a little fun. Yet, it's also so much more.
It's a movie that gets you thinking as much as it gets you laughing, and it will get you laughing a lot. It's sick, sweet, and maybe even a little deranged. It's a lot of hilarious, sexy fun and one of the best comedies I've ever seen. Patrick Brice proves once again that he is a genius by delivering, not one, but two incredible movies in the same year. Creep was darn near close to a masterpiece, and The Overnight blows it out of the water. I can't recommend it enough.
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Even though the story involves legitimate issues surrounding sexual identity and the boundaries of monogamy, its humor only goes surface deep. For the most part, the endearingly silly plot amounts to little more than sight gags and off-the-wall asides.
It’s an unusual but surprisingly effective mix of outrageousness and sincerity, in which the four anxious revelers somehow function both as broad caricatures and as real, complex human beings.
The Overnight plays like the pilot of a sitcom developed for Netflix or premium cable. A hit-and-miss affair that deals in a sporadically amusing fashion with many of the mundane (and a few not-so-mundane) tribulations of long-term monogamy in marriage.
The Overnight ends just as it starts to get interestingly messy, tapping into something real and sweetly touching.
The result is a throwaway trifle that plays like it came together over the course of a slaphappy weekend, and while size may not matter (the movie runs a short 79 minutes), it’s not even relevant to something this flaccid.
I’m still not sure if I’m a fan of the Duplass brothers yet. Their films are almost always in the comedy genre but I never manage to find them very funny. I really enjoyed Jeff, Who Lives at Home but because of its story not its comedy. I found that this movie was sort of like that as well because even though the film was marketed as a comedy it really didn’t feel that funny. The brothers and Patrick Brice really craft an interesting story with this film with a very small budget of only 200,000 dollars. This story is very well written and it has lots of shock value and it is very unpredictable.
There are great performances from the four main stars which are the only characters in the film that really matter. I was particularly impressed by Scott and Schwartzman specifically. I have always enjoyed Adam Scott and I found him really funny on Parks and Recreation and Schwartzman is a guy that I will have to check out in more movies because he did a hell of a job here.
The Overnight is just a great indie film that is well acted, well directed, and well written. I recommend it.
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I guess this comedy style is not really for me so I did not enjoy it that much really even though it has some really funny moments and stuff, but as a whole I prefer different kind of comedies, sometimes dumber ones maybe, but yeah. Either way, I did expect something like this when seeing the main leads in the cast as I was a fan of Bored to Death TV series and I kind of felt that the guy he plays in TV series is a bit similar to him in there too. Or maybe that's just me. Either way, was an ok movie, but nothing unbelievably great or bad. Average
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Two couples (Jason Schwartzman and Judith Godrèche / Adam Scott and Taylor Schilling from „Orange Is the New Black“) make a playdate which grows into something more than sipping wine and watching the children play together.
Found this little indie thing in Netflix, watched it to see Scott and Schwartzman who have a habit of appearing in comedies that I like (in addition to many generic movies but whatever, I like those dudes).
„The Overnight“ is not really a drama nor comedy but a tale of relationships: what makes us get together and stay together.
Despite the promising topic and pretty cool promos, It does not really go anywhere. There's no suspense of any kind (surely a killing blow to any movie about relationships) and the approach is too improvisational (a lot of dialogue, mostly just talk-talk-talk without any memorable lines or highlights).
But hey, I saw my dudes and it’s over quickly, in 83 minutes.
Exec produced by the Duplass brothers which gives you strong hint about what to expect from the general vibe.
Written and directed by one Patrick Brice, whose only previous movie was horror „Creep“. Whatever this means.
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I'm sorry - creepy film and creepy people, in a bad way. Within 3 minutes of meeting the new couple, I would have had the sense to run away - not so in this film. It is labeled a comedy and I don't see how - there was not one funny spot. The situations are a stretch and not naturally acted. It's also sad to watch Hollywood try and portray infantile adults (who live only on feelings) acting wholly inappropriately at all times as very normal and, therefore, we should accept them. Not one fit adult in the whole movie, including the director, producers, etc. Stay away.
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Odd and incredibly unpredictable, there is nothing wrong with the characterization of the characters here and the casting is perfect. Jason Schwartzman in particular stands out as a perfect fit for his role and is truly odd and kind of funny. However, what The Overnight has in pure oddity and plot twists, it lacks in comedy. Labeled a comedy, it is never funny and all of the jokes fall flat entirely. There are a few times I chuckled, but not very many, which is problematic. In spite of that, the film is really entertaining so even if it not my cup of tea, it never steers into unwatchable territory. Overall, The Overnight commits many mortal sins, of which the worst may be it being entirely unfunny.
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Production Company
Duplass Brothers Productions,
Gettin' Rad Productions
Release Date Jun 19, 2015
Duration 1 h 19 m
Rating R
Tagline pucker up
Website
http://theovernight-movie.com/
Awards
deadCenter Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Edinburgh International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
