The Night Before

The Night Before

2015 "Their past, present and future. All in one night."
The Night Before
The Night Before

The Night Before

6.4 | 1h41m | R | en | Adventure

In New York City for their annual tradition of Christmas Eve debauchery, three lifelong best friends set out to find the Holy Grail of Christmas parties since their yearly reunion might be coming to an end.

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6.4 | 1h41m | R | en | Adventure , Fantasy , Comedy | More Info
Released: November. 20,2015 | Released Producted By: Columbia Pictures , Sony Pictures Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: https://www.facebook.com/NightBeforeMovie
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In New York City for their annual tradition of Christmas Eve debauchery, three lifelong best friends set out to find the Holy Grail of Christmas parties since their yearly reunion might be coming to an end.

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Cast

Joseph Gordon-Levitt , Seth Rogen , Anthony Mackie

Director

Chris Shriver

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Columbia Pictures , Sony Pictures

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tomsawyerau In short, one of the worst movie that I have seen. I couldn't even finished the movie. If you just take it as a simple comedy movie, it has the worst script and really pathetic comedy sketches. But it doesn't look like a simple comedy movie. It is one of those movie that subtly promote the Apartheid state Israel.
leethomas-11621 Succeeds only because of the charisma and talents of its leads. Inhabits a world and logic of its own. A fantasy/picaresque combination. Forget the basic plot - the dialogue and characters are what make this movie different. One scene that is hard to forget though is the punch-up with the Santa Clauses. This violent scene is shocking and spoils the spirit of the movie. Joseph Gordon- Levitt physically resembles the great Heath Ledger more and more. Best line: "Friends come and go but fans last forever."!
pippaalves-56797 not gonna give anything away but i had to pause the film sometimes because i was laughing too hard... yeah, there's a lot of drugs in the movie but i kinda fell high while watching so that's a thing. different movie in the Christmas "genre" and it's funny - definitely will re- watch while stoned, should be fun. peace, y'all
jimbo-53-186511 Friends Ethan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) Isaac (Seth Rogen)and Chris (Anthony Mackie) are 30 something men who decide to spend the night before Christmas out on the tiles in New York City. Isaac is settled down now so this is intended as one last 'hurrah' for the men and when they hear about the best party in town known as the 'Nutcracker' they make it their mission to get to this party, but when you're high this seemingly straight-forward task becomes increasingly difficult for the three men.Accepting from an early stage that this is nothing more than The Hangover at Christmas I was initially happy to take it for what it is and it actually begins OK. The three men are all at different stages in their lives and join together to try to re-live their glory years. I found I could identify with the men and was prepared to accept that a predictable journey of self-discovery was going to ensue for all of the men...What I wasn't prepared for was just how much mush and sentimentality director and writer Jonathan Levine managed to cram into this film. Now don't get me wrong I'm prepared to accept that many Christmas films have some sentiment in them and I appreciate that Levine was trying to highlight the importance of love and friendship, but it felt like he had no real faith in his audience and it seemed that he had to spell out his message at virtually every single plot turn. Nearly every amusing moment and scene is rounded off with soppiness and morality and in themselves these things are not negatives, but when they're featured in nearly every scene it really starts to grate and become repetitive. I think the worst example of this was the weed-thief who despite being a self-proclaimed Grinch still had to have a sappy moment before the pretty amusing Die Hard parody that followed. It was like Levine was too frightened to take any risks and thought 'Oh no!!! I better put some sentiment in at the end of this scene in case I upset the audience.' I honestly don't believe I ever seen so much sap in one film and it really does drag the film down.It's actually ironic that Levine loads his film with so much mawkish sentiment about love and friendship in order to get the audience to understand what Christmas is all about, but then crams the film with shameful amounts of product placement and advertisements which effectively commercialise Christmas which negates what Christmas is all about; seriously a stretch Limo with Red Bull plastered on the side of it in huge letters is hardly subtle not to mention the number of times Red Bull itself is mentioned and Anthony Mackie announcing that his Sony Experia phone is the biggest phone on the market. When scrutinised this all seems rather hypocritical.Even if you overlook the mawkish sentiment and the ridiculous product placement the story is only really effective on odd occasions. The plot itself is incredibly thin and is painfully stretched over 90 odd minutes. It's actually past the hour mark before they reach the party and up to this point the narrative is rather scattershot and unfocused. The scene where Chris gets his weed stolen is actually repeated twice and Seth Rogen's drug-induced stupor is amusing at times, but again becomes a one-note concept that becomes repetitive and tiresome and Mackie and Gordon-Levitt are never really given any funny material to work with. One thing I will concede is that their friendship is generally believable which is one thing that does work in the film's favour.The Night Before is at its best when it is parodying other films such as Big, Home Alone and Die Hard and its self-awareness like this that is one of its biggest strengths. It isn't a complete laugh-dodge either and there are some genuinely funny moments dotted about here and there - Michael Shannon as Mr Green is responsible for some of the best moments in the film and manages to be funny, but in a low-key and subtle way. However, the relentless mush and sentiment just gets too much and in some ways it shows a lack of bravery on Levine's behalf - it really could have been a great anti PC Christmas film like Bad Santa. The fact that it sells itself as a raucous film about three grown men getting wasted and off their face on drugs and then suffocating the film with sentiment ultimately results in a tonal clash which left me rather unsatisfied when the credits finally started rolling.