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).
SYNOPSIS:
Due to a near - fatal accident that has left her incapacitated and depleted of her long - term memory, a temporarily
wheelchair -
bound woman returns home after being abroad for six years accompanied by -LSB-...]