The Overnight Red Band Trailer: Get the Biggest Towel You’ve Got ~ Cinenus

Thursday, 11 June 2015

The Overnight Red Band Trailer: Get the Biggest Towel You’ve Got

You probably heard about this movie during Sundance, as it received a whole lot of buzz for some of it’s more R-rated material. The most talked about of which still doesn’t make an appearance in this new Red Band trailer for The Overnight. I don’t know that you can even show frontal male nudity in a Red Band trailer. Or maybe that stuff is just being kept hidden so it’s all the more surprising to moviegoers who aren’t expecting it.

You also hopefully heard about this movie during Sundance because it was one of our favorites of the fest. “Come for the Jason Schwartzman Variety Hour, stay for the honest portrayal of marriage and parenting in one’s thirties,” wrote Neil Miller in our best-of post, and as I am a parent in my thirties, I’m very much looking forward to that angle. But really I’m excited to laugh my ass off, since the movie’s most notable buzz is that which hypes its hilarity.

In Rob Hunter’s review for FSR at Sundance, however, he stresses that it’s not just the riotous comedy that makes this movie so good:

The film offers up plenty of raunchy, adult laughs from all four leads as well as some creative nudity, but one of the film’s greatest successes is the balance it manages between its humor and its heart. This isn’t a Neighbors redux (2014 or 1981, your choice) where the goal is crass and awkward laughs. These four are given the opportunity to explore full-fledged characters, and the result is a quartet of people you come to care about even as you’re inundated with sex talk, hand jobs and pubic hair.

The Overnight is written and directed by Patrick Brice (Creep) and stars Schwartzman, Judith Godreche (Stoker), Adam Scott and Taylor Schilling, who also returns in the third season of Orange is the New Black, dropping on Netflix tomorrow. Be sure to make some room for this during or after your binge on that when the movie opens on June 19th.

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