The Overnight

The Overnight joins The D Train, While We're Young and The Wedding Ringer (and many more) as yet another 2015 comedy that explores the sexual frustrations and embarrassments of straight white guys approaching middle age (note to self: write memoir, ignite Hollywood bidding war). Adam Scott and Taylor Schilling play a boring married couple who spend an unhinged night at the home of new neighbors Jason Schwartzman and Judith Godrèche. As the night rages on, deeply guarded secrets are revealed—a sequence of two men with vastly different penis sizes dancing next to each other is the stuff of NSFW meme legend—and it becomes increasingly apparent that Schwartzman and Godrèche are playing a game of seduction. Writer-director Patrick Brice squeezes some nervous laughter out of the premise, but The Overnight is more naughty than funny, and it pulls back from the edge just when it should be leaping off. D.B.