All Nighter (2017)
Storyline
When a globe-trotting, workaholic father trying to visit his daughter on a last minute layover in Los Angeles discovers that she’s disappeared, he forces her awkward, nervous ex-boyfriend, still nursing a broken heart, to help him find her over the course of one increasingly crazy night.
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Cast
Emile Hirsch, J.K. Simmons, Eddie Perez, Kristen Schaal, Analeigh Tipton, Taran Killam, Hunter Parrish, Tom Waite, Meta Golding, Shannon Woodward, Xosha Roquemore, BoJesse Christopher, Jon Daly, Stephanie Allynne, Trenton Rostedt, Rebecca Drysdale, Jon Bass, Milana Vayntrub, Connor Barrett, Blake Perlman, Mindy Chon, Eddie Alfano, Sarah Adina, Corey Reynolds
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Reviews
50
It’s all feather-light, low-stakes stuff where it’s about the journey not the destination, and not judging a book by its cover. It skates by on the charisma of its stars but evaporates on contact.
40
The part may be tailor-made for Simmons’ no-nonsense persona, and his performance reliably rock solid, but the bland execution of director Gavin Wiesen and the uninspired scripting of Seth Owen have no comic zing.
40
All Nighter feels way too much like its own title, a soporific exercise in style over substance.
25
All Nighter is an alleged comedy that doesn’t know how to be funny. But at 80 minutes long, it does know how to be merciful.
