Due Date (2010)

Directed by

Todd Phillips

Genre

comedy film, road movie, buddy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

R

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 5,868 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man needs to get to Los Angeles before his wife gives birth. He gets stuck on a cross-country road trip with a strange and annoying aspiring actor who makes everything harder.

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What happens

Due Date is a 2010 American black comedy road film directed by Todd Phillips, who wrote the screenplay with Alan R. Cohen, Alan Freedland, and Adam Sztykiel. The film follows a man (Robert Downey Jr.) who must get across the country to Los Angeles in time for the birth of his child and is forced to road-trip with an aspiring actor (Zach Galifianakis). Michelle Monaghan, Juliette Lewis, and Jamie Foxx also star. Shot in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Atlanta, Georgia, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the film premiered at Night Visions on October 31, 2010 and was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on November 5, 2010. It received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $212 million worldwide against a $65 million budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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