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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Todd Phillips’ Due Date

With The Hangover might have put more money in Todd Phillips’ bank account, but I’m thinking it’ll give him more creative freedom to do as he pleases – and the best Phillips is an uncensored one. Galifianakis re-teams with Phillips, and the Monaghan and Downey Jr. reunion (Kiss KIss Bang Bang) assure the best chemistry possible for what Phillips does best: the road movie.

IONCINEMA.com Top 100 Films

#60. Due Date

Director: Todd Phillips
Writer(s): Alan R. Cohen, Alan Freedland and revised by Adam Sztykiel
Producers: Daniel Goldberg and Philips
Distributor: Warner Bros.

The Gist: This is about fatherhood, an expectant dad (Robert Downey Jr.) and his unlikely travel companion (Zach Galifianakis) race cross-country in hopes of making it home for the birth of his first child.….(more)

Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis, Michelle Monaghan, Juliette Lewis, Jamie Foxx and Alan Arkin.

Why is it on the list?: The Hangover might have put more money in Todd Phillips’ bank account, but I’m thinking it’ll give him more creative freedom to do as he pleases – and the best Phillips is an uncensored one. The Black List script would see Galifianakis re-team with Phillips, and the Monaghan and Downey Jr. reunion (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) assure the best chemistry possible for what Phillips does best: the road movie. 

Release Date/Status?Huge release on November 5th.

 
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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