Amateur Night

    Amateur Night
    2016

    Synopsis

    Guy Carter, an insecure expectant father unable to find work in his field, accepts a job driving hookers around Los Angeles. One long and crazy evening proves to our hero that he is, in fact, up to the task of fatherhood.

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    Cast

    • Jason BiggsGuy Carter
    • Janet MontgomeryNikki
    • Jenny MollenAnne Carter
    • Ashley TisdaleFallon
    • Bria L. MurphyJaxi
    • Steven WeberDr. Kurtz
    • Adrian VooBest Man Dan
    • Robert HoffmanDevon
    • Cedric YarbroughZoley
    • Rusty JoinerCocky Dude

    Recommendations

    • 50

      Los Angeles Times

      The film insistently asserts its autobiographical roots at the expense of sharper plotting and characterizations, not to mention more energetic pacing.
    • 42

      The Playlist

      Here is a film about truly extraordinary events that is mostly autobiographical and true to the lives and experiences of writers and directors Joe Syracuse and Lisa Addario which never manages to feel personal, and instead is reduced to coming off as just another raunchy comedy.
    • 40

      Village Voice

      Besides the narrative reversal, Montgomery is the only interesting part of the film — smart, obstinate, and ambitious. The gross-out scenes and raunchy banter between the film's sex workers are funny, but its world is pretty small and unsurprising.
    • 40

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Biggs is appealing in the central role, although for him, conveying mortified embarrassment doesn't exactly qualify as an acting stretch. But he does have good chemistry with Montgomery.
    • 38

      Slant Magazine

      The film is peppered with interesting true-life details, but these are overwhelmed by frantic comedic sequences.