Here we have Topher Grace, Anna Faris, Dmitri Martin, and Dan Fogler in the trailer for Michael Dowse’s Take Me Home Tonight, which doesn’t look terrible, just like a more generic version of Adventureland.
As the summer of 1988 winds down, three friends on the verge of adulthood attend an out-of-control party in celebration of their last night of unbridled youth. Recent MIT grad Matt Franklin (Topher Grace) should be working for a Fortune 500 company and starting his upward climb to full-fledged yuppie-hood. Instead, the directionless 23-year-old confounds family and friends by taking a part-time job behind the counter of a video store at the Sherman Oaks Galleria. [Cinematical]
Not to be confused with Greg Mottola’s 80s period piece from two years ago…
Unable to afford the European vacation he’d dreamed of, recent college grad James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg) reluctantly takes a gig at a local amusement park, only to learn that the dead-end job is, in fact, excellent preparation for the real world.
And just when you’re like, “Whoa, aren’t they gonna put the Eddie Money song in the trailer?” BOOM! There’s the f*ckin’ Eddie Money song, right in the f*ckin’ trailer! Meanwhile, Adventureland had the New York Dolls, Husker Dü, and the Velvet Underground, was rated R, and made no money. Stupid Greg Mottola, what were you thinking, not naming your movie after a song, giving it a cheesy tagline, and making it look like a Glee episode? Were you trying to not make money? Ugh, I hate people.
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This 80′s Blows?
Hmmmm. I guess I’m just gonna say good for Topher Grace. I know he’s trying real hard to be in movies. Dmitri isn’t though.
My dog leaves more creativity in tightly coiled piles on the lawn
I loved the ’80s. Just like Ronnie Say – Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
“Look, Danny McBride and Jonah Hill are busy guys. So have I got a fat actor for you!”
- Dan Fogler’s agent
I can’t hardly wait to see this movie.
Adventureland also had Ryan Reynolds.
Shut up, you knew it was coming.
The blonde girl in the poster is pretty. Your argument is irrelevant.
’88 was a dark time for Trekkers, and the taint of Dr. Pulaski still stabs at the hearts of viewers from the grave.
Heh, taint-stab…
Good thing Dmitri Martin glossed over the chapter in the career guidebook about enjoying popularity.
“Topher is even Topherer, and Faris has never been more wheel!” – Pete Hammond.
Looks like it’ll make hundreds and hundreds of dollars.
Railing coke in a bathroom during a party is so 1973.
But she can’t marry that guy – he has a popped collar!
Thank god they used a song lyric for the title, otherwise I wouldn’t know to AVOID THIS MOVIE LIKE THE FUCKING PLAGUE!
Michelle Trach as a skeezed out goth? I hate it when films, for no good reasons, take really hot chicks and fuck up their hair and makeup and make them look hideous. Oh, it’s the 80s. Carry on then.
They had passenger side air bags in 1988 ??
This was shot in late 2007 in Phoenix. I’m not saying this as a way of pointing out that it was actually made before Adventureland (technically it was), i’m just saying it to point out that this stinker has been lying around collecting stink on studio shelves for 3 and half years. why bother now? Is eddie money coming back? Speaking of which, his jam “I Wanna Go Back” made me cry once when i was high on coke and ecstasy. true story. does that make me cool now, daddy? does it?
whose dick does Topher have to grace to get a decent role these days? *wink, fart*
Jessie Eisenberg was in Adventureland? Sorry, I’ve blocked that film out of my mind since I was let down by it. I expected so much funny in it. For me it’s was the Angus of my the aught years.
*of the aught decade.
All right! My first post and I f**k it up.
I thought blonde girl was Kristen Stewart at first, so i didn’t bother watching past the first 5 seconds.
I want to destroy that blonde’s flesh star.
I mean her sphincter, see.