2010 · comedy · action · adventure
Date Night
Directed by Shawn Levy1h 28m2010
Phil and Claire Foster fear that their mild-mannered relationship may be falling into a stale rut. During their weekly date night, their dinner reservation leads to their being mistaken for a couple of thieves—and now a number of unsavoury characters want Phil and Claire killed.
Our read: Date Night (2010) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy · action · adventure entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured comedy / action, grounded in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- warm
- kinetic
- tender
- epic-stakes
- funny
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