Date Night Page #4

Synopsis: Phil and Claire Foster are a couple who have been married for several years. Their days consists of them taking care of their children and going to work and coming home and going to bed. But they find time to have a date night wherein they go out and spend some time together. When another couple they know announce that they're separating because they're in a rut, Phil feels that he and Claire could be too. So when date night comes Phil decides to do something different. So they go into the city and try to get into a new popular restaurant. But when it's full and still wanting to do this, Phil decides to take the reservation of a couple who doesn't show up. While they're having dinner two men approach them and instructs them to stand up and go with them. They think the men are with the restaurant and want to talk to them about taking someone else's reservation. But it appears the couple whose reservation they took crossed someone and the two men work for this person. The men are after s
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Director(s): Shawn Levy
Production: 20th Century Fox
  4 wins & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
56
Rotten Tomatoes:
67%
PG-13
Year:
2010
88 min
$98,710,290
Website
1,973 Views


And you should be able to dance again.

And you need to walk among the birds.

Yeah, l gotta tell you,

l don't really understand that metaphor.

-lt's not.. .

-And l feel plenty vibrant.

Okay, maybe not

three-guys-at-once vibrant,

but that is gross. That's.. .

Phil makes me feel vibrant

in different ways.

We have a date tomorrow night.

Great. Okay. Well,

enjoy the potato skins and the salmon.

Walk among the birds.

Get that bird away from me.

(HEARTBREAK WARFAREPLAYlNG)

Lightning strike

lnside my chest to keep me up at night

Dream of ways

To make you understand my pain

Clouds of sulfur in the air

Bombs are falling everywhere

lt's heartbreak warfare

Once you want it to begin

No one really ever wins

ln heartbreak warfare

ln heartbreak warfare

lf you want more love

Why don't you say so?

lf you want more love

-Hey, honey.

-Hey.

-PHlL:
Hey, Katy.

-Hi.

-Guys.

-Hi.

-What'd you learn in school today?

-BOTH:
Nothing.

Fantastic! Won't have to pay for college.

-Whose move?

-CLAlRE:
Honey, do you wanna change?

No, l think l'm good. l.. . Wow! l.. .

-Wow. What.. . You look nice.

-l just threw this on.

-lt's stupid. l'm gonna.. .

-No, it isn't. No. You look great.

Fantastic. l.. . l'm going to change.

l'm going to change,

and l'm going to take a shower.

-We don't wanna miss the movie.

-How about no movie?

How about

l am taking you to dinner in the city?

-We don't have to do that.

-Yes, we do. Come on.

l'll be down in 10 minutes.

l'm going to take you to that

new seafood place that you read about.

Claw? lt's impossible to get in.

And the city's so far.

No, it's not that far.

Don't you tell all your prospective clients

-the city's only 20 minutes away?

-Yeah, l'm lying to them. lt's an hour.

No, no, no. lf we leave in 10 minutes,

we'll be there before 7:00,

get a table no problem.

Yes? Yes.

-Say yes. Yes? Yes!

-Yes!

Yes! Great. We're gonna do it.

We're doing it!

AUTOMATED VOlCE:
ln 1 mile,

make a right onto Route 1 7.

(lN BRlTlSH ACCENT) No way, lady.

Honey, please just do

what the nice British woman says.

No, no, no.

l have got an important dinner to get to.

l'm taking the parkway to 23. Much quicker.

lt's because it's a woman's voice.

lf that thing had John Madden's voice,

you would listen to it.

Mmm-mmm. No. No. Trust me.

(lN DEEP VOlCE)

Take a left at the next thing.

Come on.

l'm all over this.

Captain Phil Foster's shortcut.

l am going to get us there quickly,

efficiently and with great panache.

(CARS HONKlNG)

-This road does need resurfacing.

-Mmm-hmm.

(PHlL SlGHlNG)

Well, it wasn't much of a shortcut.

lt's gonna be great.

Hi. Excuse me, hi.

l'm so sorry to bother you.

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Josh Klausner

Josh Klausner is an American screenwriter. He wrote Date Night (2010), and Shrek Forever After (2010). more…

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