The Night Before is a new holiday comedy that brings actors Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Anthony Mackie together for holiday fun.
The new film opens in theaters on Friday, December 4. But will we laugh about it a lot over the holidays?
Here’s everything you need to know about The Night Before (15).
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Santa Claus (Tracy Morgan) tells the sad story of Ethan Miller (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Isaac Greenberg (Rogen) and Chris Roberts (Anthony Mackie) who have been together since 2001, the day Ethan was orphaned after his parents spent Christmas Eve . died.
Fourteen years later, the men grew apart and realized they had to say goodbye to this festive tradition.
Chris is an American football superstar who secretly injects steroids to compete with teammates, Isaac has a beautiful wife, Betsy (Jillian Bell), who couldn’t be more proud of his transition from jerk to fatherhood not. Ethan recently broke up with his longtime girlfriend Diana (Lizzy Caplan) because he refused to commit.
The boys decide to go out in the glow of fame by attending the most exclusive party in New York, armed with weed they obtained from their father’s local dealer, Mr Green (Michael Shannon). Needless to say, the celebrations don’t go as planned.
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The premiere of The Night Before
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The protagonists are Batman’s Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who plays Ethan Miller, Knocked Up’s Seth Rogen, who plays Isaac Greenberg, and Captain America’s Anthony Mackie, who plays Chris Roberts.
Other stars include Mean Girls’ Lizzy Caplan, 22 Jump Street’s Jillian Bell, The Mindy Project’s Mindy Kaling and Revolutionary Road’s Michael Shannon.
Is it worth a watch?
Seth Rogen plays Isaac Greenberg in the festival film
3/5
There is a glimmer of genuine sweetness amidst the silliness in The Night Before, occasionally casting a warm glow on the characters as they learn valuable lessons about the power of friendship to overcome any obstacle.
However, we have seen this insanity many times in lead character Seth Rogen, most notably in the delightful buddy comedy Pineapple Express, which showed a similar penchant for illegal drugs as an escape from reality.
Isaac’s hallucinogenic misadventures tire at an alarming rate, and his madcap theft of a horse-drawn carriage misses a beat. Rogen plays to tap, but Gordon-Levitt and Mackie bring a touching vulnerability to their big boys, who are their own worst enemies.
Jonathan Levine’s film is a Christmas cracker that misses its punch.
Where can I buy tickets?
The Odeon, Cineworld and Vue theaters are now accepting bookings for First Friday screenings.
