Game Night Dvd

Game Night is a 2018 American action comedy film directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein and written by Mark Perez. It stars Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams, and follows a group of friends whose game night turns into a real-life mystery after one of them is kidnapped by apparent burglars. The film’s supporting cast includes Billy Magnussen, Sharon Horgan, Lamorne Morris, Kylie Bunbury, Jesse Plemons, Michael C. Hall, and Kyle Chandler.

Warner Bros. Pictures released the film on February 23, 2018. It was a commercial and critical success, grossing $117 million worldwide and receiving praise for its originality, humor, script and performances. Plemons was nominated for the Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Plot

Married competitive gamer couple Max and Annie are trying to have a child, but their attempts are unsuccessful due to Max’s stress surrounding his feelings of inadequacy when compared to his wealthy and successful brother Brooks. During Max and Annie’s routine weekend game night with their friends Ryan, and married couple Kevin and Michelle, Brooks shows up in a Corvette Stingray (Max’s dream car) and shares an embarrassing story about Max to throw him off during a game. Brooks offers to host the next game night at his home. Meanwhile, Max and Annie are trying to keep their game night secret from their neighbor Gary, a socially awkward police officer left distraught after his divorce from their old friend Debbie.

When the guests, including Ryan’s new date, Sarah, arrive at Brooks’ house the following week, Brooks says he has initiated an interactive role-playing mystery game, promising the winner of his Stingray. Suddenly, two masked men break in and violently kidnap Brooks. The guests believe the assault is part of the game, so they just watch as he is dragged away before beginning to solve the mystery game using the clues left behind by the actor.

Using his GPS location, Max and Annie track Brooks down to a seedy bar and, using a pistol left behind by Brooks during the struggle (which they believe to be fake), manage to take the keys to the storage closet, where Brooks is being held. After Annie mistakenly fires the gun and shoots Max in the arm, confirming the weapon is real and that they are in actual danger, the three escape. Brooks admits that he makes his living buying and selling illegal items on the black market, in particular a Fabergé egg sought by a man known only as “the Bulgarian” that he instead sold to another man using the alias “Marlon Freeman.” With his captors in pursuit, Brooks exits the moving car to guarantee Max and Annie’s escape.

Eventually, the others learn what they have become involved in, and avoid alerting the police because of Brooks’ warnings about the Bulgarian having moles in the government. Believing that the Bulgarian is responsible for Brooks’ abduction, the group tries to determine the identities of the Bulgarian and Marlon Freeman. They show up at Gary’s house, under the pretense of a game night, to use his police computer, where Max discovers the address of Marlon Freeman, whose real name is Donald Anderton. The group leaves Gary’s house and arrives at Anderton’s address, where he is hosting an underground fight club. As the others search the house, Ryan spots the egg in a wall safe and is caught trying to steal it. The group escapes with the egg but accidentally breaks it. They discover the egg secretly concealed a Witsec list inside, and realize this was what the Bulgarian wanted.

The group finds Brooks and his captors on a bridge and move in to rescue him, only to be captured themselves. Brooks reveals to Max that he feels guilty, and intended for him to win the Corvette Stingray all along. Before the captors can kill them, the group is saved by Gary, who is then shot in the chest. Max and Annie try to encourage him to pull through by promising to invite him to every future game night. Gary then reveals that he faked the entire scenario – including hiring the thugs that kidnapped Brooks – in an attempt to trick them into letting him join game night again. He is, however, unaware of the egg, and they are immediately attacked by the real Bulgarian, who captures Brooks after he swallows the list. Max and Annie use Brooks’ Corvette to drive to the airport and stop the Bulgarian from taking off with Brooks in his jet. They eventually knock the Bulgarian out and dispatch his henchmen, freeing Brooks.

Three months later, Brooks, now under house arrest for his crimes, has managed to sell the list for $3 million (having also tipped off the witnesses for $20 thousand each). Meanwhile, Annie has finally become pregnant. While the group – including Gary – are continuing their game night, men with guns get ready to storm the building.

Cast

Jason Bateman as Max Davis, Annie’s husband.
Rachel McAdams as Annie Davis, Max’s wife.
Billy Magnussen as Ryan Huddle, one of Max and Annie’s friends.
Sharon Horgan as Sarah Darcy, Ryan’s co-worker and love interest
Lamorne Morris as Kevin Sterling, Michelle’s husband.
Kylie Bunbury as Michelle Sterling, Kevin’s wife.
Jesse Plemons as Gary Kingsbury, Max and Annie’s neighbor.
Chelsea Peretti as Glenda
Danny Huston as Donald Anderton
Michael C. Hall as The Bulgarian
Kyle Chandler as Brooks Davis, Max’s brother
Additionally, the film’s directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein cameo as Carter and Dan, respectively. Kenny (credited as “Not Denzel”) is portrayed by Malcolm Hughes, a part-time Denzel Washington impersonator. Jeffrey Wright makes an uncredited cameo as an actor playing Agent Ron Henderson, an FBI Agent.