Hollywood is filled with great scripts that are forever stuck in development hell, struggling to find the right of talent and people willing to take a risk to make it happen. And then there are movies like “Crash Pad,” which somehow get made without any problems, even though they feel like a low-grade rehash of about a half dozen movies you’ve seen before. Oh wait, maybe that’s exactly why they get made.
Domhnall Gleeson, Christina Applegate, Thomas Haden Church, and Nina Dobrev all star in the movie, produced by director Alexander Payne (“Sideways,” “The Descendants“) of all people, that follows a young man who has a one night stand with a married woman. The twist? Her husband finds out, and decides to move in the with the fellow, and recapture his youth or something. Honestly, it’s a bit ridiculous, even for this kind of fluff, no-stakes comedy. Here’s the synopsis via Yahoo:
In director Kevin Tent’s film, Gleeson plays Stensland, a young man who finds himself bitterly disappointed to learn that the woman with whom he’s just had a one night stand (Christina Applegate’s Morgan) is, in fact, married. Moreover, she slept with him just to get revenge on her two-timing husband Grady (Thomas Haden Church). Making things far weirder, Grady responds to this situation by moving in with Stensland so the two of them can heal their equally wounded hearts by drinking booze, smoking marijuana, and bedding strangers — thus sending the proceedings into a twisted tailspin that, by the looks of the first trailer, will revolve around Gleeson’s perpetual awkward befuddlement.
“Crash Pad” hits Digital HD on September 26th, theaters on October 27th, and DVD on December 5th.
