There's little doubt that Due Date gets off to an
almost disastrously underwhelming start, as director Todd Phillips, working from a script cowritten with Alan R. Cohen, Alan Freedland, and Adam Sztykiel, offers up a series of eye - rollingly broad comedic set pieces that are both unfunny and without any basis in reality (ie Peter receives a beating from a
wheelchair -
bound redneck, Ethan laughs hysterically after Peter tells him a sad story about his father, etc).