Due Date Page #6

Synopsis: In Atlanta on business, straight-laced and overly analytical architect Peter Highman is flying home to Los Angeles and his wife Sarah for the imminent birth of their first child. However, traveling by plane no longer becomes an option when he and a fellow passenger, aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay, are kicked off the plane, which was caused by Ethan's social inappropriateness, due to being generally unaware, exacerbated by Peter's temper at a situation against his sensibilities. Peter, who ends up without money or his suitcase, is forced to accept Ethan's offer of a shared car ride to Los Angeles, Ethan who is looking for his big acting break. For Peter, this partnership is one made in hell, but he feels he has no other choice. Peter obviously wants to take as direct and as quick a route as possible, while he is at Ethan's mercy as the person with the driver's license, car rental and money. They get into one misadventure after another on this trip, with the same issue at each misadventur
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Todd Phillips
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
51
Rotten Tomatoes:
40%
R
Year:
2010
95 min
$100,448,498
Website
5,092 Views


Nice perm, man. Well done.

Well done on that perm.

Oh, thanks, bro.

It's not a perm, it's natural.

Nobody gets perms anymore.

Wait, wait. Don't tell me. Is that a perm?

Yeah. lt's a perm. Yeah.

[LAUGHS]

Oh, my God.

You didn't have your real hair.

-Where do you even get those anymore?

-l know! lt's like....

I was just kidding about--

This isn't a perm.

BARRY:
Excuse me?

-This isn't a perm. I was joking.

-Oh, my God. Thank God. Because l was--

-Ha, ha!

You got us. You got us both, man.

You know, only, like,

f***ing jerk-offs get perms.

-That was good. Very good.

-That was hilarious.

-Where are you from?

-Los Angeles.

-ls that where you're going?

PETER:
Mm-hm.

Can you take us with you?

No, but there's an organization

called Child Protective Services.

-What's this?

-lt's a tie. You've never seen a tie before?

Why do you wear it?

Because I wear it.

-lt looks stupid.

-Well, it's not.

Just take your hands off of me.

Please stop doing that.

Stop. Please stop doing that now.

-Will you please--?

-lt's Reggie.

Is that right? Well, maybe Reggie

needs to take a nap.

Hey, quit it. l'm not kidding.

[PETER GRUNTS

AND PATRICK COUGHlNG]

You okay, bubba?

-What?

-Nothing.

"Nothing" is right.

[IMITATING MARLON BRANDO]

And now, you come to me and you say:

"Don Corleone, give me justice."

But you don't even have the decency

to call me the Godfather.

And you come to my house...

...on the day that my daughter

is to be married...

...and you ask me to kill someone.

For money.

But that is not justice.

That's amazing.

I had chills, like, that second paragraph.

When the line-- The murder.

That is so f***ing good, Ethan.

[IN NORMAL VOICE] Thank you. I've been

working on the hand gestures to get it right.

Did you write that yourself?

No. The Mafia wrote it.

HElDI:
Oh, that was so--

It was nice meeting you, anyway.

Play it cool, or I'll thump you again.

Sure, sure. You all set?

Yeah. Good to go.

How were they?

They behave themselves?

Pretty much. Pretty much.

HElDI:
Oh, good.

PETER:
Yeah.

I mean, they're great kids.

We good?

-See you. Good luck.

ETHAN:
Bye-bye. Bye.

Good luck with your acting stuff.

MAN [OVER HEADPHONES]:

--is judging the character.

When an actor is preparing a scene...

...first thing is read the scene over

many times.

First, before you do any work on it,

let it work on you.

Read the material over and over again.

The entire script, if at all possible.

PETER:

Hey, Hollywood.

Card's been declined.

-What's that?

-Your card? lt's no good.

-Oh, gosh.

-lt's okay.

You know what? l bet I tapped it out

when l rented this car.

Great. We'll pay cash.

How much you got?

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Alan R. Cohen

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