About Last Night (2014)
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Critic Consensus: About Last Night wanders even further from the David Mamet play that inspired the original, but it benefits from an engaging cast and a screenplay that smartly balances romance and comedy.
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Cast
as Bernie
as Danny
as Joan
as Debbie
as Casey McNeil
as Alison
as Steven Thaler
as Ryan Keller
as Himself
as Asian Manicurist
as Isaac
as Trent
as Drunk Regular
as New Roommate
as Pretty Lady
as Ad Executive
as Ad Executive
as Ad Executive
as Chef
as Dog Walker
as Old Man
as Volunteer
as Derek
as Bernie's Trashy Date
as Boring Date
as Bartender
as Company Manager
as Cigarette Girl
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Critic Reviews for About Last Night
All Critics (99) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (68) | Rotten (31)
When your intention was always to use the cookie cutter, why bother nodding the head towards any largely imagined inspiration?
A date movie that could have been written by entertainment software, and quite divorced from real human beings and their experiences of sex.
The film's limp and bedraggled. No one looks good in it. You wonder if Mamet would even recognise what he once wrote.
The haunting sounds emanating from Kevin Hart taint this watered-down and glossy reinterpretation of a 1974 David Mamet play.
The new About Last Night clearly wants to honor the old, [but] it needs to embrace the new more often.
This may be watered-down David Mamet. But for Kevin Hart, it's 80 proof.
Audience Reviews for About Last Night
An average remake in which the two leads try their best but don't have enough charm or good chemistry to make us care (especially when most of the conflicts feel artificial), and they get, alas, overshadowed by Hart and Hall as the intrusive comic relief secondary characters.
Super Reviewer
The original 1986 film, of the same name, was much more dramatic and intent on analyzing the dysfunction and hypocrisy in relationships, and their inane pitfalls. This remake is much raunchier, placing an emphasis more on its supporting characters, and also still showing the problems with rushing into relationships. The cast is perfectly put together for this film, relying on Michael Ealy and Joy Bryant for a massive dose of chemistry. Regina Hall is an amazing comedic actress who is given a lot to work with and hits it out of the park, bringing an irresistible flavor to this film. This, of course, is the year of Kevin Hart, who steals the show time and again in over the top, hilarious scenes. There's very little good or bad to say about this romantic drama other than it's very funny, but the relationship portrayed is still boring and soapy to watch in between the funny bits.
Super Reviewer
If the chemistry these actors share does not make you smile, then I don't know what will. Kevin Hart and Michael Ealy are so believable as best friends it is not even funny, and they are funny as hell in these roles. I feel like I enjoyed this film much more than I should have, but sometimes a movie can do that to you. This is a very solid romantic comedy that I did not expect to work so well. Falling in love, growing apart and seeing where things go from there has been done in so many films before, but the script is well-written and actually cares about it's characters, and there wasn't really a time I found myself rolling my eyes. Overall, "About Last Night" is a romantic comedy I can easily watch more than once. Is it amazing? No, but it does everything you want it to and you will probably laugh pretty hard throughout it as well. It's not just your average chick flick, but it is a film that single men, single women, and couples can all enjoy. Definitely recommended, because there are very few good films left in this genre, and this being one of them.
Super Reviewer
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