Sentences with phrase «kidnapping mystery game»

Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams strike comic gold — or at least silver plate — as a hyper - competitive game - crazy couple whose suburban couples gaming party goes way off the rails when an equally competitive globe - trotting / high rolling brother to the husband (Kyle Chandler, cast against type) comes home, initiates a murder / kidnapping mystery game that is in turn hijacked by real hoodlums who play for keeps.

Not exact matches

After some provocation from Max's equally competitive brother Brooks (played by Kyle Chandler), our main couple and their close friends (Billy Magnussen, Sharon Horgan, Lamorne Morris, and Kylie Bunbury) meet up for a mystery game played within the real world, where someone gets kidnapped by actors and everyone else has to compete to find him.

He's arranged for everyone to play a real - life mystery game requiring them to solve a kidnapping.

Brooks has arranged for the group to play an immersive murder - mystery game, wherein actors come to your house and «kidnap» one person and the others compete in deciphering clues to save him.

Of course Brooks proposes the best game night ever: a murder mystery where someone is realistically kidnapped from the party.

For the group's most recent game night, Brooks has hired a murder mystery company to playact a kidnapping scenario.

The game in question turns out to be one of those interactive mystery - themed evenings when a guest is murdered or kidnapped and the players must solve a string of puzzles in order to figure out the solution.

True to form, Brooks bigfoots the weekly game night with an elaborate staging of a faux kidnapping and murder mystery, involving hired actors, fake blood and a race to see which of the three couples involved can crack the case first.

Instead of playing Charades, Pictionary, or any of their go - to board games, he's signed them up for an interactive «murder mystery,» where one of them will be kidnapped and the winner who finds the missing person will get the keys to his Corvette Stingray.

Max, no longer content to play Donnie to Brooks» Mark Wahlberg, is determined to beat his brother at his own game: a staged mystery which includes Brooks» kidnapping.

The hook of the film comes when Max's brother Brooks (Kyle Chandler), a charismatic alpha male and bane of Max's existence, attempts to one - up the normal game night proceedings by arranging a pricey murder mystery event where one person is kidnapped and the rest have to try to solve it.

A simple murder mystery game quickly leads to a kidnapping, a heist to break into a safe and even the discovery of an underground fight club.

While not uproariously funny, this story about a kidnapping game gone real brings the fun through charming characters and a zigzagging mystery plot.

The only downside is that Brooks» murder mystery game just so happens to coincide with his own real - life kidnapping.

As they proceed through the games in hopes of reaching the exit, they will also tackle the mystery of who kidnapped them and why.

The beginning of the game starts with a bit of mystery: who are the girls being kidnapped and what is the point behind murdering the cop?