Review: Date Night
Loving but overworked married couple Steve Carell and Tina Fey leave their kids with a sitter (Leighton Meester) one night a week to have dinner together, the title ‘Date Night’. Well this one night...it all goes to pot. Having a hard time getting a table at a fancy restaurant but too hungry to go home (sounds like a “Seinfeld” episode to me), they claim to be the ‘Tripplehorns’ when said name is called out, and promptly take the no-show couple’s table. This proves a poor decision as the Tripplehorns are apparently thieves who have gotten on the wrong side of mobster Ray Liotta, who has sent two corrupt cops (Jimmi Simpson and Common) to deal with them. They plead ignorance to the ‘flash drive’ Liotta needs, but the thugs aren’t buying it, thinking they’re pretending to be a mild-mannered couple to shirk responsibility and not get ‘whacked’. They manage to somehow ditch these goons, but now they’re scared and on the run in a New York full of seemingly unsympathetic people. Mark Wah...