Due Date (2010)

Cautiously Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: Todd Phillips

Writers: Alan R. Cohen, Alan Freedland, Todd Phillips, Adam Sztykiel

Cinematographer: Lawrence Sher

Composer: Christophe Beck

Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis, Michelle Monaghan

Peter Highman, flying back to Los Angeles for the birth of his first child, is thrown off the plane after getting into an argument with a fellow passenger, the childlike Ethan Tremblay, who is heading for Hollywood in search of stardom, and with whom he is soon forced to share a car for a mammoth road trip, when he discovers that he has left his wallet on the plane, a trip that goes from bad to worse, in this sporadically funny and mildly amusing if somewhat mean-spirited comedy, which pales in comparison to the similar though far superior Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987). Iain.Stott