Not exact matches
The film - which follows a trio of friends (Bradley Cooper's Phil, Ed Helms» Stu, and Zach Galifianakis» Alan) as they attempt to piece together just what transpired during a pal's drunken
bachelor party (where it inevitably becomes clear that said pal has mysteriously vanished)- strikes all of the wrong notes virtually from the get - go, as screenwriters Jon Lucas and Scott Moore offer up a series of broadly - portrayed caricatures that could only exist within just such a low - rent comedy (with Galifianakis» aggressively off - the - wall
turn as Alan undoubtedly the most apt example of this).
A weekend in Vegas takes a very interesting
turn when three best friends wake up in their Caesar's Palace penthouse the morning after a wild
bachelor's
party to find that their fourth friend is missing.
For me, Cruise's best moments are silently responsive — the way he drunkenly stares at Rod (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), his only client, after another of the wide receiver's rants; his puzzled delight at the little - kid rambles of Dorothy (Renee Zellweger)'s son; the moment (beautifully noted by Nicholson) when he watches his
bachelor party video, and his face
turns from good sport to dismayed as more women mention his inability to commit.
Writer - Director (and actor) Peter Berg takes the premise of «Stag,» a small film about a
bachelor party gone horribly astray, and
turns it into one long macabre joke.
With Lone Survivor, based on the memoir of Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell, the titular lone survivor of a botched four - man special forces mission in Afghanistan, Berg's examinations of the masculine take their logical
turn from
bachelor parties to football to superheroes to military action.