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If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly. The film’s production design is smart, and for the most part thankfully doesn’t overdo its fashion choices for cheap sight gags and laughs, instead merely creating a backdrop. Finally, as mentioned, the soundtrack, packed with highly impressionable ’80s tunes and supported by a synth-laden score from Trevor Horn, gooses one in pleasing ways. Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. We've been spoiled by some comedies lately that have you laughing when you enter til you leave, and the newest movies that are coming out are trying to replicate that and usually fail by going way over the top.
Her story has been widely followed across the nation since Medina's appearance on American Idol. On March 3, 2011, while being interviewed on Ryan Seacrest's 102.7 KIIS FM radio show, Topher Grace announced to former American Idol contestant Chris Medina that 1% of the film's box office revenue would be donated to the care of Medina's injured fiancée, Juliana Ramos. Wendy, realizing Matt was right, breaks up with Kyle, who experiences a crying breakdown. Pondering his future while talking to Ashley, a Goth girl he met at the party, who tells Barry that maybe he should go to college.
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When Matt's high school crush, Tori Frederking, walks into the store, he lies that he works at Goldman Sachs. Tori invites Matt to a Labor Day party, hosted by his twin sister Wendy's boyfriend, Kyle. The script — which is essentially about the panicked onset of a second puberty in its twentysomething characters, all experiencing occupational or personal malaise — also locates uncertainty in a nice cross-section of its characters.
Outside, Matt boldly kisses Tori goodbye for the night cause he still has her phone number to call. Matt's dad, investigating the giant ball in the pool, smirks proudly when he finds his son's name tag. Matt, Barry and Wendy stagger out of the party house, leaving together as the sun is rising.
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The film stars Topher Grace, Anna Faris and Dan Fogler. Script sat down with the writing team to find out what it takes to make it work on the big screen. Principal photography was completed in 2007, but Universal Studios shelved the film until its 2011 theatrical release. Topher Grace posted that the release of the film was delayed when the studio did not know how to handle and promote a youth comedy film with portrayals of cocaine use, as the drug was prominent in the 1980s. When Matt, Wendy, and Matt's best friend, Barry Nathan, head to the party, Barry steals a Mercedes-Benz from the car dealership he got fired from earlier that day, saying Matt needs it to impress Tori.
A police cruiser arrives, and it turns out to be Matt's dad. Already disappointed with his unwillingness to choose a career path, he further damages the convertible, coercing Matt to get a better job to pay off the damages. He apologizes for being such a failure, to which his dad replies that, as he's never tried, he has never reached failure. The film unfolds in 1988, centering around Matt Franklin , a recent MIT grad who’s returned home to Los Angeles, and taken a job at a video store while trying to figure out what to do with his life. When his unrequited high school crush, Tori Frederking , wanders by and invites him to an end-of-summer party, Matt and his voluble best friend Barry , just fired from his job at an auto dealership, head out into the night to have a good time. The married writing team -- Jackie and Jeff Filgo -- of That '70s Show fame (they were long-time showrunners) are back in the biz of reminiscing about those painful coming of age years in the new '80s comedy Take Me Home Tonight.
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His quarry, as played by Teresa Palmer, is a complete blank, and the film has a hard time convincing us that this generic Barbie doll is worth even half the headaches found in this tiresome chore of a movie. Oh, and this thing somehow makes Anna Faris into a humorless, generic, obnoxious subplot. I could forgive this terrible movie for many of its sins, but I cannot abide this sort of Faris abuse.
A few weeks ago, I subjected myself to an outlandishly terrible piece of farce entitled Due Date. I took to the Twitter and opined that if screenwriters were legally required to appear in their own films , then we'd never get movies as bad as Due Date -- a film so bad that it manages to make Robert Downey Jr. unlikable. That's some serious filmmaking talent on Bizarro World. Much of the dialogue, crafted by Jackie and Jeff Filgo, former small screen collaborators with Grace on That ’70s Show, has a shaggy specificity that helps mark the film as a bit off-kilter, and not drab or corporate-vetted. Tori is sometimes referred to as “The Frederking,” as if an object of worship placed high on a shelf, and Wendy and Kyle repeatedly share the same salty anecdote, in the way couples sometimes do, to explain to friends their decision to move in with one another.
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Barry snorts some cocaine he found in the glove box of the stolen car and gets involved in a dance-off, and Kyle proposes to Wendy in front of everyone. Matt is disappointed she accepted, as he doesn't think Kyle will support her attending graduate school. At times its outlandishness toes the line between the ribald and contrived, but lively interplay and a great, evocative soundtrack more or less consistently impose a mood of effervescent, if slight, amusement. Knowing Tori has left her car at the party, Matt and Barry go back, where bets are being placed on who will "ride the ball", a giant, steel sphere that someone rides inside as it's rolled down a hill.
Near the end of the yearbook credits, the phrase "don't worry, be happy" appears with a yellow happy face. "Don't Worry, Be Happy", the Bobby McFerrin song that popularized the phrase, wasn't released until 1988. The film debuted at #11, with $3,464,679 during its opening weekend in 2,003 theaters in North America. The film grossed $6,928,068 in North America, failing to recoup its $19 million budget. Matt Franklin is a recent MIT graduate, working at a Los Angeles Suncoast Video store in 1988 while trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, something that his police officer father has grown impatient with.
Decent word-of-mouth will help Take Me Home Tonight connect with younger audiences to the tune of modest eight-figure grosses, though those expecting a more straightforward lampooning of 1980s movies will be disappointed. Discover the stars who skyrocketed on IMDb’s STARmeter chart this year, and explore more of the Best of 2022; including top trailers, posters, and photos. Four years after graduation, an awkward high school genius uses his sister's boyfriend's Labor Day party as the perfect opportunity to make his move on his high school crush. The title comes from the 1986 Eddie Money song of the same name, also played in the theatrical trailer and on the menu screen of the Blu-Ray and DVD releases. Despite having the same name, it never actually appears in the film. This page is about the voters of the script Take Me Home Tonight.
In the 1984 yearbook, there are several anachronisms. There's a clip of A-ha's video for "Take On Me", which wasn't released until 1985. There's a photo of ALF, a video clip of the California raisins, and a photo of four girls with the inscription "walk like an Egyptian". Alf, the California Raisins and the song "Walk Like an Egyptian" are all from 1986.
97 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$19 millionBox office$7.4 millionTake Me Home Tonight is a 2011 American romantic comedy film directed by Michael Dowse and starring an ensemble cast led by Topher Grace and Anna Faris. The screenplay was written by Jackie and Jeff Filgo, former writers of the television sitcom That '70s Show, of which Grace was a cast member. The film follows a recent college graduate who wants to change his career plans after his old high school crush invites him to a party. Matt confesses that he doesn't work at Goldman Sachs. Barry chastises Matt for not trying to have just one night of enjoyment and offers him a line of cocaine while driving. He tries to snort the cocaine, but ends up driving the convertible into a ditch.
Matt finds Tori and tries to apologize, but she is unwilling to forgive him. Feeling he has nothing to lose, Matt volunteers to "ride the ball", hitting several parked cars then flying off an embankment, landing in a backyard swimming pool. Now imagine re-reading that paragraph for 93 consecutive minutes without being allowed to talk or tweet or scream for mercy and you're halfway to understanding what a cinematic affront this thing is. As is, Take Me Home Tonight locates deeper feeling only in fitful fashion, as its players part and reconnect at various times. That 1% of the film's box office revenue would be donated to the care of Medina's injured fiancée, Juliana Ramos. Juliana was involved in a serious car accident in 2009 and suffered a traumatic brain injury.
