The Night Before Page #4

Synopsis: Ethan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Isaac (Seth Rogen) and Chris (Anthony Mackie) have been friends since childhood, and for a decade, their yearly Christmas Eve reunion has been an annual night of debauchery and hilarity. Now that they're entering adulthood, the tradition is coming to an end, and to make it as memorable as possible, they set out to find the Nutcracka Ball - the Holy Grail of Christmas parties.
Director(s): Jonathan Levine
Production: Sony Films
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
58
Rotten Tomatoes:
66%
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Year:
2015
101 min
$31,315,980
Website
2,554 Views


We just drifted apart.

Look, we're at the tree!

Why don't we talk about that another time?

- What?

- Not now, man.

Gentlemen...

14 years ago to this very night,

a tradition was born.

That year some drunk, f***ing a**hole

hit my parents with a car.

So that Christmas,

I didn't have any family to be with...

but you guys were there for me.

But tonight!

Tonight's different.

We have mutually decided

to end this tradition.

Isaac's about to have a baby.

And Chris is just too f***ing famous

to hang out with us anymore.

But guys, earlier today...

I witnessed

a real-life Christmas miracle.

- Where the f*** did you get those?

- Holy sh*t! Are those real?

They are f***ing real!

Where did they come from?

It doesn't matter!

It's a f***ing Christmas miracle!

You killed somebody for those?

No, I stole them.

That's awesome! What a blowout!

It is the Nutcracker Ball!

Yes!

So I called the number on these tickets.

They don't give out the address till 10.

So that gives us several hours to hit

as many Christmas traditions as possible!

Let's do it.

And it's gonna be the

best f***ing night of our lives!

I'm so psyched, man. Awesome.

Maybe it'll be the new

Christmas tradition.

I don't know if we're really

replacing this with another tradition.

That was a joke, Isaac.

Give me some credit.

Obviously, that was a joke.

I am totally cool with it.

Obviously, he's joking.

- Definitely.

- Gentlemen, I got the sweaters.

This one's for you.

- This is for you.

- Nice.

Let's do this!

Let's do it. Hey, where'd he go?

Soup's on!

Hey, Thuwan! How's it going, my man?

Now it's Christmas. It's not Christmas

till we eat egg drop soup.

It brings me back.

Who are you calling right now?

- Calling my man Tommy Owens.

- You're calling Tommy Owens?

- Who's Tommy Owens?

- He's the best player in the league.

- Tommy!

- C-Money, what's up, my man?

Merry Christmas.

Tell him hi.

Hennessy.

We going to the Nutcracker Ball.

I got tickets for my boys.

I got us on the list for the party...

the after-party, the before-party,

every party.

Congrats, baby, you coming up big time.

What we do, baby. That's what we do!

Tell him to bring some green with him.

C-Money, while I got you on the phone...

I hate to even ask, but you think

maybe you could bring us some weed?

Yeah, I can get weed.

Look who you're talking to, baby.

- Come on. It's Chris Money.

- Smoke it up!

I'll see you at the Nutcracker Ball.

I'll bring you a half a pound...

and we gonna roll. Much love.

One. Chris love out. Peace.

How much weed you got in that box?

I don't know. Why don't we check?

Check it out, playa.

Someone call Snoop D-O-double gezzank,

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Jonathan Levine

Jonathan A. Levine (born June 18, 1976) is an American film director and screenwriter. He is well known for directing 50/50 in 2011. more…

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