Rough Night (released in some countries as Girls’ Night Out) is a 2017 American black comedy film directed by Lucia Aniello (in her feature debut) and written by Aniello and Paul W. Downs. It stars Scarlett Johansson, Zoë Kravitz, Kate McKinnon, Jillian Bell, Ilana Glazer, Paul Downs, Ty Burrell, and Demi Moore, and follows a bachelorette party that goes wrong after a male stripper dies.
The film was released in the United States on June 16, 2017, by Sony Pictures Releasing to goes through Columbia Pictures, received mixed reviews and grossed $47 million worldwide against a production budget of about $26 million.
Plot
In 2006, four friends, Jess, Alice, Frankie and Blair, bond during their first year of college. A decade later they reunite as Jess is about to marry Peter. Alice decides that the four should spend the weekend in Miami partying. They are also joined by Pippa, Jess’s friend from her semester in Australia. The friends get high and party at a club and then decide to hire a male stripper. When the stripper arrives at the door, he makes Jess uncomfortable with his rough talk. Alice decides to take a turn and jumps on him, causing them to both fall and the stripper to hit his head on the edge of the fireplace, killing him. Before they decide what to do, Jess takes a call from Peter and mentions that her friends hired a stripper and she is confused. Peter takes this to mean that Jess is leaving him and decides to race down to Miami to convince Jess to take him back.
The friends purchase a burner phone and call Blair’s uncle, who is a lawyer. After telling them they moved the body, he tells them they could face up to fifteen years in prison unless no body is found. The friends decide to dispose of the body by throwing it into the ocean. After doing so, they realize that their neighbors’ security camera caught them on tape and send Blair to seduce them to get the footage only to have her discover the cameras don’t work after she has slept with them. By this point, the body has washed up on the shore and they must come up with a new plan to dispose of it.
A police officer knocks on their door and Frankie knocks him out after he gropes her, only for the friends to realize that he was the actual stripper they had ordered, leaving them to wonder who they killed. They use the stripper’s car to try to dispose of the body again only to return home defeated after a car accident. Then when Alice finds out Jess invited Frankie and Blair to a bridal shower over her, Jess verbally berates her for her obsessive clinginess and storms off to prepare for the consequences.
At this point, two police officers arrive and tell the women they are not in trouble as the man they killed was a violent criminal who had been on the run from the police. As they interrogate the women Pippa realizes that the “police” are actually the accomplices of the man they killed. Realizing that they are caught, the men tie up the women and the now-awakened stripper and threaten to shoot them. Jess meanwhile has missed most of the drama due to being upstairs taking a shower in preparation for her mugshot. Realizing what has happened, she manages to subdue one of the captors using hairspray and handcuffs and fights off the other one as he prepares to kill Blair. After Alice shoots the second captor, the first one reappears having freed himself from the toy handcuffs only to be run over when Peter, high on the drugs he took to keep him awake on his roadtrip to Miami, crashes into the front of the house and kills him.
Jess reaffirms that she wants to marry Peter and the two marry that weekend at a foam party with their friends in attendance. Frankie and Blair decide to reunite as a couple and Alice hooks up with Scotty, the police officer stripper that she met at Jess’s bachelorette party.
In a mid-credits scene, Pippa sings a song with lyrics that allude to the evening.
In a post-credits scene Alice finds the thief’s stolen diamonds.
Cast
Scarlett Johansson as Jessica “Jess” Thayer
Kate McKinnon as Pippa/Kiwi
Jillian Bell as Alice
Ilana Glazer as Frankie
Zoë Kravitz as Blair
Paul W. Downs as Peter
Demi Moore as Lea
Ty Burrell as Pietro
Ryan Cooper as Jay (“Scotty”), the fake stripper
Colton Haynes as Scotty McBody, the real stripper
Dean Winters as Detective Frazier
Enrique Murciano as Detective Ruiz
Bo Burnham as Tobey
Eric Andre as Jake
Hasan Minhaj as Joe
Patrick Carlyle as Patrick
Karan Soni as Raviv
Peter Francis James as Uncle Jack
Bob the Drag Queen as himself
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