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This weekend at the movies feels like a trip back to the 1980s in Doc Brown’s DeLorean, with remakes of “RoboCop,” “Endless Love” and “About Last Night.” Happily, one of them rediscovers a bit of the old magic. Though it’s based on a David Mamet play now 40 years old, “About Last Night” feels as fresh and vital as any romantic comedy hot off the script pile.
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The film boasts a black leading cast, but it hasn’t been rewritten to pigeonhole characters by race. The cheerful, fluffy story is about the universal fundamentals of coupledom. When does casual sex tip over into commitment? Can the volatility that fuels hot infatuation be maintained? Or will it inevitably lead to tears and tantrums? What are the broader implications of a guy giving a girl a drawer of her own in his bedroom dresser? Mamet wrote his play in the early days of no-strings intimacy,(Download About Last Night) and the issues are as relevant, funny and current for today’s hookup culture.The film follows the highs and lows of two parallel friends-with-benefits relationships, one bickering and raunchy, the other dreamy and soulful, both entertainingly turbulent.
Bickering Kevin Hart and Regina Hall ricochet across the screen, peppering each other with snarky one-liners. Their straight foils Michael Ealy and Joy Bryant bring breezy energy to their plot line, with his past romances and vague plans for the future colliding with her uptight, jealous careerism. In outline they sound like Tyler Perry clichés, but director Steve Pink (“Hot Tub Time Machine”) and screenwriter Leslye Headland render them as vivid individuals (especially Hart,(Download About Last Night) who could wring laughs from an eviction notice).The filmmakers know exactly what the audience wants in this kind of picture: attractive stars, big-city eye candy and breezy montages cut to funk and soul classics to keep the pace zipping along. Though there are some current references, like a throwaway line about John Legend (who contributes a tune to the soundtrack) and a good deal of improv from Hart and Hall, the story sticks close to the spirit of the 1987 film version.
(Download About Last Night) There’s even a nice nod to the original film as Bryant and Ealy watch it in bed, Chinese takeout cartons on their stomachs, debating whether it’s a chick flick or a guy flick.This new edition also aims for that kind of all-demo appeal, and it largely succeeds. Though it peddles the obligatory wish fulfillment of friction-free social mobility and happy-ever-after finales, it doesn’t simply pander to viewers’ favorite fantasies.The story bangs the characters up a bit along the way.(Download About Last Night) Ealy gets fired from his job in a restaurant-supply company for secretly helping a bar owner friend behind on his payments. Hall, for all her snake-necked sass, gets treated badly enough by Hart that you feel her hurt. The entire cast drinks up in scene after scene after scene to the point that an intervention seems appropriate. Still, the movie’s industrial-strength good cheer and irrepressible energy percolate along.
Hart is appearing in his third feature in two months (after “Grudge Match” and “Ride Along”), but he’s in no danger of wearing out his welcome. He’s a comic triple threat, creating relatable if outrageous characters, ad-libbing like a champ and fearlessly throwing himself into physical comedy.In a Halloween bar scene he bops around energetically in a Chippendales bow tie and thong,(Download About Last Night) declaring to the room, “I’m Channing Tatum!” His bedroom scene involving Hall and a rubber chicken mask is a panic. Here’s hoping he soon breaks out of ensembles and gets a lead role, and a film, to call his own.Everyone who says Hollywood doesn’t make strong romantic comedies anymore really needs to check out “About Last Night.” It turns out doing something special with the genre requires remaking a 28-year-old Hollywood movie, which was itself based on a now-40-year-old David Mamet play called “Sexual Perversity in Chicago.”
The new film, directed by “Hot Tub Time Machine”‘s Steve Pink, retrofits the 1986 Rob Lowe/Demi Moore/Elizabeth Perkins/Jim Belushi movie “About Last Night…,” while utilizing a cast that’s black and a bit older, dropping the ellipses, and moving the action from Chicago to Los Angeles, while amping up the sexual perversity. The characters, though, are still named Danny, Debbie,(Download About Last Night) Bernie and Joan.Kevin Hart stars as Benny, the usual motor-mouthed Kevin Hart character who falls into a volatile love-hate relationship with Regina Hall. Meanwhile, his best friend (Michael Ealy) and hers (Joy Bryant) get into more of a conventional relationship. The film follows the characters’ relationships over the course of the four seasons- what theater types call the “dying god motif“- through the characters’ ups and downs.
The plot is pretty standard, well-trodden battle-of-the-sexes stuff, but it’s elevated by a witty script (by “Bachelorette” director Leslye Headland, adapting both the play and the original film), a vibrant energy and pace for the bulk of the film and, best of all, fantastic performances by the four main actors. Their chemistry is fantastic and the play off each other beautifully.(Download About Last Night) Hart is an undeniable talent who has often been ill-served in his film roles with lackluster material, but he’s just great here, handling hilarious, often wildly sexual explicit dialogue with both Ealy and Hall. And some of his Hart’s dialogue is just uproarious, especially a bit when he pretends to be Jewish- a nod, perhaps, to the characters being Jews back in the original Mamet play?
Hall, one of the more subdued members of the ensemble in the “Best Man” movies, really gets to play broader her, and the way she and Hart bounce off of each other is just sublime. The real breakout, though, is Bryant, best known for her part on Parenthood. I can’t think of a good reason why she’s not a huge movie star.Sure, there are some missteps. Like just about every Hollywood comedy,(Download About Last Night) it loses momentum in a big way around the second act. There’s a brief gag, involving an androgynous roommates, that’s both grossly crude and not in keeping with the film’s tone. A subplot involving a bar owner (Christopher McDonald) who doesn’t charge his customers makes no sense, and the considerable talents of Paula Patton are largely wasted in a single-scene cameo as Ealy’s drunken ex.
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Then there’s the strange scene in which we see Ealy and Bryant eating Chinese takeout together, naked, which raises all kinds of troubling questions. Did they pick up the food naked? Did they pick it up fully clothed and then get naked? And who wants to eat Chinese food naked? And even more strangely,(Download About Last Night) in the same scene they’re watching the 1986 “About Last Night” Doesn’t it give away the ending of their own lives?I’ve never seen the play and I admit I don’t remember a lot about the original movie- I tend to confuse it with the other Lowe/Moore movie from that period, “St. Elmo’s Fire”- and all I recall is a lot of softball, and the use of the Gold Coast bar Mother’s for many of the scenes. But I can say without any doubt that the 2014 version is funnier and more entertaining, not only because Kevin Hart is such a better performer than Jim Belushi. I’m just trying to imagine what David Mamet would make of it.
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