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What you will—and won't—find in this movie. Apple, Dawson's Creek, eBay. Parents need to know that Crash Pad is an odd-couple comedy about an alpha-male man (Thomas Haden Church) who temporarily moves in with the slacker younger guy (Domhnall Gleeson) with whom the first man's wife (Christina Applegate) had an affair.
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Stensland (Gleeson), is distraught to discover that Morgan (Christina Applegate), the older woman he has spent the weekend having sex with after a heated encounter in a soft furnishings store, is married. He’s even more distraught when he finds out that Morgan’s husband is Grady (Thomas Haden Church), a successful, moustachioed lawyer – twice his a...
One possible reason for Gleeson choosing Crash Pad is the presence ofThomas Haden Church. What young actor wouldn’t relish the prospect of stepping into Paul Giamatti‘s shoes and trying to recapture that odd-couple comedy magic of Sideways? There’s a further link between the two films – Crash Pad‘s director Kevin Tent is Alexander Payne‘s long-time...
The MVP of Crash Pad is Domhnall Gleeson. He needn’t have put in much effort, and yet he attacks the role with as much gusto as he does his more prestigious characters. Stensland is, for the most part, a pretty pathetic person, and a lesser actor could have played him whiny and unlikeable. Gleesoneasily avoids that trap, and portrays a man that any...
Crash Padis fine. These actors are all too good for the film, but no one phones it in, and subsequently they raise the level of the material. Whilst the conceit is as unbelievable as it is dull, the dialogue is of a better standard than you might expect in a film of this type. It isn’t a laugh-riot, but neither is it boring. It’s a perfectly fine w...
Oct 26, 2017 · Crash Pad. Directed by Kevin Tent. Comedy. R. 1h 31m. By Monica Castillo. Oct. 26, 2017. The sin of poor comedic timing is almost an unpardonable one. Kevin Tent, Alexander Payne’s longtime ...
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Oct 26, 2017 · “Crash Pad” is still a Hollywood movie, however, so it follows the typical romantic-comedy path to happily ever after in the end. Because of the surprise that came before it, though, it doesn ...
Oct 27, 2017 · TRAILER. Suburbicon. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. A man thinks he has found true love with an older woman until he finds out she is married and using him to get revenge on her husband.
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CRASH PAD. Comedy. , Drama. , Romance. A hopeless romantic (Domhnall Gleeson) thinks he's found true love with an older woman (Christina Applegate) only to learn that she's married and their encounter was merely an instrument of revenge against her neglectful husband (Thomas Haden Church).
Oct 16, 2017 · True to its transient title, this is a stopover of a movie, a chance to try on a kind of retrograde behavior, and find it wanting, before happily moving on. Rated R, 92 minutes. Alexander Payne's ...
