Rough Night
Jess is an engaged politician who reunites with three of her college friends for a wild bachelorette weekend in Miami, but the unimaginable happened when the male stripper they hired died.
11 November 1962, Roswell, New Mexico, USA
3 January 1984, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
31 March 1978, Coon Rapids, Minnesota, USA
1 December 1988, Los Angeles, California, USA
June 21, 2017
Most of the laughs are generated by the fact that the girls' old rivalries and grudges re-surface at the most inopportune moments.June 21, 2017
While there is an ever present ickiness in its premise of murder equals laughs, Rough Night has enough fun with its lowbrow gags to place it above similar comedies.June 16, 2017
Formulaic feminism makes for a rough watch in this chick retread of The Hangover. For this we got liberated?June 19, 2017
Sensible, envious, posh, feisty, kooky Aussie: the women here have about as much dimension as members of a '90s girl band.June 16, 2017
The women in Rough Night are terrific company. They never wear out their welcome. Too bad you can't say the same for the movie.June 16, 2017
Some of the best jokes are belly busters. My favorite involves a slow car and a speed bump.June 16, 2017
The movie falls apart, and flounders to the end, because it doesn't know what its funny is supposed to be.June 16, 2017
This should have been funnier. Rough Night is a comedy with a great female cast, but the women were given nothing to do.June 21, 2017
Rough? The night in question is dangerously splintered -- and therein lies its intermittent charm.June 18, 2017
In a word, Rough Night is patchy, which is disappointing considering its pedigree.June 17, 2017
Orchestrating a gender reversal on this concept isn't especially liberating; you might actually get more laughs out of the cutaways to the lame bachelor party of Jess's fiancé, where sensitive men get "wild" at their private wine tasting.June 20, 2017
Rough Night is a film of few surprises and fewer delights, a one-idea film that has difficulty filling out its overly generous 101 minutes.