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THE NIGHT BEFORE

By Joyce and Don Fowler
Posted 11/25/15

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(Pornography and drug abuse with a message)

Poor Ethan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt); it’s Christmas Eve. His parents were recently killed in a car crash. He’s despondent and home alone. His …

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See it at the Movies

THE NIGHT BEFORE

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(Pornography and drug abuse with a message)

Poor Ethan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt); it’s Christmas Eve. His parents were recently killed in a car crash. He’s despondent and home alone. His buddies (Seth Rogen and Anthony Mackie) show up to cheer him up by taking him out on the town. Thus starts a 10-year tradition of drug use, drunkenness and debauchery.

Ethan’s girlfriend broke up with him, and his music career is going nowhere. Chris (Mackie) has become a football star, and Isaac (Rogen) is married and about to become a father. They decide that this will be the last year they continue their Christmas Eve tradition. Their goal is to get to one ultimate party.

What follows is a night of partying that includes drugs, booze, sex, lots of nudity, sexting, vomiting at Midnight Mass and an hour-plus of bad behavior. Of course, Ethan meets up with his old girlfriend.

But wait! There has to be a moral. After all, this is a Christmas movie, even though only one of the three is a Christian.

After a continuous romp through R-rated material, it is finally time for redemption, as the three find that friendship is the most important thing. After that, these three jerks live happily aver after.

Rated a big R.

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