Due Date

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Due Date
A man in a ragged blue shirt with his wrist in a cast, and his arm around a smiling bearded man holding a bulldog that is wearing a protective cone around its neck.
Theatrical release poster
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
Starring Robert Downey Jr.
Zach Galifianakis
Michelle Monaghan
Juliette Lewis
Jamie Foxx
Music by Christophe Beck
Cinematography Lawrence Sher
Editing by Debra Neil-Fisher
Studio Legendary Pictures
Green Hat Films
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
  • October 31, 2010 (2010-10-31) (Night Visions Film Festival)
Running time 95 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $65 million[1]
Box office $211,780,824



Peter Highman (Robert Downey, Jr.) is on a plane, flying home to be with his wife Sarah (Michelle Monaghan), who is due to give birth. When an actor sitting behind Peter, Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis), misuses the words "terrorist" and "bomb", Peter and Ethan 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 he is nearly out of money. Since Peter has no I.D., he gets his wife to wire the money to Ethan, but Western Union (Danny McBride) refuses to accept Ethan's stage name I.D.

After a night at a rest stop, Peter decides to drive off and leave Ethan there, but returns after wrestling with his conscience. Peter gets Ethan to drive so Peter can get some rest, but Ethan 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 Ethan's father's ashes.



Sarah delivers the baby safely, and Peter expresses his discomfort at his new daughter being named 'Little Rosie Highman'. Ethan leaves while telling Peter to call him. At the end, Ethan guest stars on an episode of his favorite television program, Two and a Half Men with Peter and Sarah watching it in bed with their daughter.









Due Date (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Soundtrack album by Various Artists
Released November 2, 2010
Recorded 2010
Label WaterTower Music

iTunes version[edit]

No. Title Artist Length
2. "New Moon Rising"   Wolfmother 3:45
4. "People Are Crazy"   Billy Currington 3:51
5. "White Room"   Cream 4:58
7. "Sweet Jane"   Cowboy Junkies 3:35
8. "Amazing Grace"   Rod Stewart 2:02
10. "Glaucoma"   Christophe Beck 2:13
11. "A Good Sign"   Christophe Beck 1:36
12. "Ethan's Theme"   Christophe Beck 1:19
Additional songs



Critical response[edit]

Due Date received average reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 40% "rotten", or a 5.2/10 rating, based on 178 reviews. The site's consensus is: "Shamelessly derivative and only sporadically funny, Due Date doesn't live up to the possibilities suggested by its talented director and marvelously mismatched stars."[4] Metacritic gives the film a "mixed or average" score of 51%, based on reviews from 39 critics.[5]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times awarded the film two and a half stars out of a possible four, noting "The movie probably contains enough laughs to satisfy the weekend audience. Where it falls short is in the characters and relationships." Ebert compares Due Date to the 1987 film Planes, Trains and Automobiles but bemoans that Due Date could have learned and offered more.[6]

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Home media[edit]



  1. ^ Fritz, Ben (November 4, 2010). "Movie projector: Hollywood looking for huge weekend as 'Megamind,' 'Due Date' and 'Colored Girls' open". Los Angeles Times (Tribune Company). Retrieved November 5, 2010. "The movie is relatively expensive for a comedy, with a budget of about $65 million split between Legendary Pictures with Warner." 
  5. ^ "Due Date Reviews, Ratings, Credits". Metacritic. CBS. Retrieved September 18, 2011. 

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