Due Date

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Originally produced as a feature film in 2010.
Special feature: gag reel.
Robert Downey, Jr., Zach Galifianakis, Michelle Monaghan, Juliette Lewis, RZA, Jamie Foxx.
"Expectant first-time father Peter Highman (Robert Downey, Jr.) looks forward to his new child's due date five days away. As Peter hurries to catch a flight home from Atlanta to be at his wife's side for the birth, his best intentions go completely awry when an encounter with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis) forces Peter to hitch a ride with Ethan on a cross-country trip that will ultimately destroy several cars, many friendships and Peter's last nerve"--Container.
DVD; region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround; widescreen presentation; dual-layer.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Hilarious submitted by kooifish on July 6, 2011, 12:43pm This movie is hilarious--we had tears coming out of our eyes from laughing so hard. (Just had to look over some of the language)

awesome! submitted by codyson159 on July 10, 2011, 7:03pm this is an awesome show! i love it!

Hilarious submitted by ColeenT on July 13, 2011, 5:45pm Amazing Movie

FUnny! submitted by LuckyDuck on July 13, 2011, 7:41pm Great.

great movie submitted by Ele Z. on July 29, 2011, 9:42am but sad in some parts

Due Date submitted by emjane on July 14, 2012, 8:36pm The initial concept seemed all too familiar. In their attempts to fly from Georgia to LA, Peter Highman (Downey Jr) and Ethan Tremblay (Galifianakis) get placed on a no-fly list thanks to Highman's angry reaction to Tremblay's idiotic antics. Highman needs to make it home to LA in three days for the birth of his son, but is unable to rent a car because his wallet is with his luggage on the plane. Enter Tremblay, a wannabe actor headed to "Hollywood," ready to save the day with his rental car (and complicate it with the coffee can filled with his dad's ashes). Despite Tremblay's clear deficiencies as a travel companion, he is Highman's only option, so the two embark on a cross-country roadtrip. Hijinks ensue.

For the first half hour of the movie, I was thinking, "Yeah, yeah, this is funny, but nothing new." And then, with a surprise sucker-punch, the movie starts to go a little nuts. Highman gets a little crazier than initially presented, Tremblay continues to become wackier, and the problems their trip poses stop being typical travel mishaps. It was just what the movie needed to become its own.

One of the things that impressed me the most about Due Date was how it dealt with the more tender scenes that most comedies stumble over. Due Date sneaks into them: what starts as a joke morphs into a moment where you really feel for one of the characters. Then, just as you start to get in a little too deep, Galifianakis says something ridiculous and you're laughing again.

Due Date is doomed to be compared to The Hangover, as they're both directed by Todd Phillips. Though I did like The Hangover better, Due Date is certainly worthy of being packaged with it in the nostalgic comedy box-set that will be released in another 15 years.

Kind of Stale submitted by ima_rom on July 15, 2012, 5:07am Planes, Trains, and Automobiles did it much better.

due date submitted by a2sue on July 25, 2013, 7:23pm funny stuff! love comedy

Oh! So inappropriate! submitted by Kikumatsu97 on July 13, 2015, 7:22pm you're laughing at the silliest, yuckiest, stuff, blushing and giggling. lots of humor in this movie tht ive never seen before.