"Dirty Weekend" is a decent idea for a low-budget movie that never gets past the idea stage, and after a brief while, you may start to question whether it should have been a movie at all, much less a 90-minute one.
Dirty Weekend
Some things are better left unsaid.
2015 · 1h 33m · N/A
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Neil LaBute
Overview
During a layover in Albuquerque, work colleagues Les and Natalie discover more about each other than they ever thought possible. Anxious and irritable, Les is drawn back into the city by past experiences he can’t forget (even if he doesn't really remember the particulars of his previous drunken adventure). Natalie, refusing to leave his side, follows along as her own secrets are slowly revealed, leaving her feeling both vulnerable and unbound.
Director and cast
- Neil LaBute Director
- Matthew Broderick as Les Moore
- Alice Eve as Natalie Hamilton
- Phil Burke as Cabbie
- Gia Crovatin as Dylan
- Monique Candelaria as Dark Haired Beauty
- Charles Duran as Vince
- Fredrick Lopez as Proprietor
- Matthew Page as Bartender
- Kristen DeVore Rakes as Waitress
- Rob Tode as Flight Attendant
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
As always with LaBute's talkathons, dialogue is ever purposeful and oh-so-empty, less indicative of flesh-and-blood people than a dramatist's deliberateness, though Eve and Broderick make the most of their dully comic exchanges.
A fairly weak-tea story of conflicted self-discovery that would make for a mildly engaging evening on the stage.
Mr. LaBute is not a moralizer as much as a lamenter-his people usually bring unhappiness upon themselves. In the gently joyous "Dirty Weekend," though, they are capable of finding a flight path to contentment.
The only thing more boring than this comedy about two colleagues on a layover in Albuquerque might be an actual layover in Albuquerque.
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