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Synopsis: In Atlanta on business, straight-laced and overly analytical architect Peter Highman is flying home to Los Angeles and his wife Sarah for the imminent birth of their first child. However, traveling by plane no longer becomes an option when he and a fellow passenger, aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay, are kicked off the plane, which was caused by Ethan's social inappropriateness, due to being generally unaware, exacerbated by Peter's temper at a situation against his sensibilities. Peter, who ends up without money or his suitcase, is forced to accept Ethan's offer of a shared car ride to Los Angeles, Ethan who is looking for his big acting break. For Peter, this partnership is one made in hell, but he feels he has no other choice. Peter obviously wants to take as direct and as quick a route as possible, while he is at Ethan's mercy as the person with the driver's license, car rental and money. They get into one misadventure after another on this trip, with the same issue at each misadventur
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Todd Phillips
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
51
Rotten Tomatoes:
40%
R
Year:
2010
95 min
$100,448,498
Website
5,458 Views


I might e-mail you.

Please don't take it personally.

No, no, e-mail's fine.

[DOG WHEEZES]

-Bye, Sonny.

-Do you mind if Sonny and l take the truck?

Feel free.

-lt's been a real pleasure, Peter.

-Been a lot of things.

Thanks.

Hey. Ethan.

Welcome to Hollywood.

What? You want me

to come back and talk to you?

I was just saying

in the most general sense.

The city welcomes you.

Just make sure you call me tomorrow.

I'll call you.

[DOORBELL RlNGS]

MAN:

Be right there.

[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

Hello?

Oh, hey. I'm Stu, the tutor.

Are you Jake?

No, I'm his father.

Oh.

I'm Stu, the tutor.

Right.

Have you been smoking pot?

No, sir. Not at all.

Perhaps you're smelling my cat.

[LAUGHS]

ALAN:
Your cat?

ETHAN:
Yes, sir. He's an outdoor cat.

You know what, he's really funny.

Don't get crazy.

I'm telling you, the show's funny.

Come on. You love him.

You know you love him.

I survived him. There's a difference.

Um, uh, Charlie, this is Jake's tutor, Stu.

-Hey.

-I'm not high, man, it's my cat.

[CELL PHONE VIBRATES]

CHARLlE:

Relax, Stu. We're not cops.

ETHAN:

Oh, really? He sure looks like the heat.

Like clockwork. l told him

we'd call him after we watched it.

SARAH:

He's excited.

If she says his name, I'll freak out.

ETHAN:

Pita bread?

Hummus?

Again, no thank you.

You got any more pot?

Not for $9 an hour I don't.

I mean, I don't know

what you're talking about.

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