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Synopsis: Two CIA agents, Tuck and Frank who are also best friends, have been benched because someone's after them. Tuck is divorced with a son whom he's not close to and Frank is a ladies man. Tuck decides to try and find someone so he places his profile on a dating website. Lauren, a woman also looking for a guy sees Tuck's profile and goes with him. She later bumps into Frank and he hits on her and she goes out with him. She's intrigued by both of them. When they learn that they're dating the same girl, they agree to let her choose. But both can't help but use their skills to keep tabs on her and each other. And also sabotage each other's dates with her.
Director(s): McG
Production: Twentieth Century Fox
  1 win & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
31
Rotten Tomatoes:
25%
PG-13
Year:
2012
103 min
$54,758,461
Website
2,711 Views


To be fair, I have already provided you

with a wonderful great-grandchild.

Yeah, but that doesn't count

because you screwed it all up.

- Ouch.

- Come on, Lil.

Let's show these kids

how it's done, huh?

- Heh, heh. See?

- Ciao.

It's kind of gross when they kiss.

God, I love that kid.

What's going on?

Hey, Mr. Deep-ln-Thought.

You wanna talk about it?

I was just...

That kind of thing's lovely, isn't it?

- It's really lovely.

- What's lovely?

I love the way

they look into each other's eyes like that.

I'm pretty sure that's the cataracts.

Have you... Okay. You asked me

a serious question, didn't you?

- Yeah. Yeah.

- Right. So do you want a serious answer?

- Yeah. Put the cake down?

- Please.

- Okay.

- Thank you.

Cake is down. Talk to me.

- Well, no, seriously, man chat. Okay?

- Okay.

Man to man.

I trust you.

I know you'd do anything for me.

- Yeah.

- You would take a bullet for me.

I would for you as well, you know that.

Right?

- Can you imagine all of that?

- Yes.

Can you imagine what that would be like

to share with a woman?

No.

Okay.

No.

Thank you.

All right, Joe, Steven, you're up.

- All right, Joe. Good luck, son.

- Let's go to war.

That's it. Now you feint. Nice feint.

Hit.

- Oh, nice. Get on him. Oh!

Down he goes. Ground and pound him.

Get on him. Ground and pound.

Ground and pound.

- Uh....

- Keep it going. Hammerfist him.

Right there, that's it.

Hit it. He's giving you his back.

- Rear naked choke.

- I give.

- Yes. He's tapping. He's out. Booyah!

- I give.

See what I mean?

That's how it works, boy.

See that? I pwned him, didn't I?

- Good. You okay?

- Sure did, son.

Ha, ha!

- That's how you kill him.

- What are you doing here?

Well, I had a bit of time off and

I thought I'd come hang with my homey.

I got creamed.

No, you didn't,

that's just a matter of opinion.

What do you know about fighting?

You're just a travel agent.

I know enough to know

that he who hesitates...

Pain?

That's just weakness leaving the body.

Oh, Dad.

Joe. Joe, Joe.

- Come on, boys.

- Mom, did you see me win today?

On the mat? That's amazing.

- Hey, guys.

- Hey.

- Hey, bud.

- Hi.

- Hey, Tuck.

- Hey, how you doing?

Didn't know you were in.

Got a couple days off

so I thought I'd come see Joe.

You're the only travel agent I've ever met

who actually travels for his job.

Yeah.

Um, so I was thinking that maybe, um....

Maybe you, me and Joe,

we could all go out together...

...you know, as a family,

maybe get something to eat.

Have a meal.

I think that would be really, really good.

I have a date tonight, Tuck.

So maybe some other time.

Sure. That's great. Good. That's good.

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