Due Date (2010 film)
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| Directed by | Todd Phillips |
| Produced by | Todd Phillips Daniel Goldberg Susan Downey |
| Screenplay by | Alan R. Cohen Alan Freedland Adam Sztykiel Todd Phillips |
| Story by | Alan R. Cohen Alan Freedland |
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Robert Downey Jr. Zach Galifianakis Michelle Monaghan Juliette Lewis Jamie Foxx |
| Music by | Christophe Beck |
| Cinematography | Lawrence Sher |
| Edited by | Debra Neil-Fisher |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $65 million |
| Box office | $211.8 million |
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| Soundtrack album by Various Artists | |
| Released | November 2, 2010 |
| Recorded | 2010 |
| Label | WaterTower Music |
Due Date is a 2010 American comedy film directed by Todd Phillips, co-written by Alan R. Cohen, Alan Freedland, and Adam Sztykiel, and starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Zach Galifianakis. The film was released on November 5, 2010. The film was shot in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Atlanta, Georgia, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Peter Highman (Robert Downey, Jr.), a successful architect, is due to fly home to be with his wife Sarah (Michelle Monaghan), who is about to give birth. On the way to the airport, he has a chance encounter with Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis), who is going to LA to be an actor and is planning to scatter his recently deceased father's ashes at the Grand Canyon. When Ethan misuses the words "terrorist" and "bomb" while talking to Peter, they are both escorted off the plane. This is only the first of a series of misadventures caused by the drastically dysfunctional Ethan. Peter, now on the No Fly List and missing his wallet, agrees to drive with Ethan to Los Angeles.
Ethan stops to buy marijuana, and Peter discovers that they are nearly out of money. Since Peter has no I.D., he gets his wife to wire the money to Ethan, but discovers Ethan had the money wired to his stage name instead of his legal name. When the Western Union employee (Danny McBride) refuses to accept Ethan's "Stage name I.D." it leads to a violent altercation.
After a night at a rest stop, Peter decides to drive off and abandon Ethan, but realizes that he still has Ethan's father's ashes, having forgotten to unload them with the rest of Ethan's stuff when he left. This causes him to wrestle with his conscience, and he decides to return. Ethan drives so Peter can get some rest, but he falls asleep at the wheel and crashes the car. After Peter and Ethan are picked up by Peter's friend Darryl (Jamie Foxx), Peter again decides to part company with Ethan. Darryl initially persuades him otherwise, but then throws Ethan out after mistakenly drinking some of Ethan's father's ashes, which were stored in a coffee tin.
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