'Stuber' NSFW Trailer: Kumail Nanjiani & Dave Bautista Take A Violent & F-Bomb Laden Uber Trip

I’m not sure I understand the strategy of releasing a trailer, late on a Friday night when no one’s around for a comedy that probably doesn’t have the awareness factor of say a big Judd Apatow movies, but maybe 20th Century Fox knows what they’re doing with “Stuber.” Directed by Michael Dowse, known for a diverse group of comedies like “Take Me Home Tonight” and “Goon,” and Canadian indies (where he’s from) like “FUBAR” and “What If?,” “Stuber” centers on a police detective, recovering from LASIK eye surgery, who recruits his Uber driver into an unexpected night of adventure.

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The film stars the unexpected duo clash of Kumail Nanjiani as the mild-mannered Uber driver, Stu (Stu + Uber= Stuber apparently) and Dave Bautista as the emotionally cut off, bull-in-a-China-shop, kind of blind cop, as they but heads on a 24 case that takes them all over Los Angeles.

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We saw “Stuber” at the SXSW Film Festival in March, and it’s a strange mix of really funny, really violent and grizzly and attempting to take on toxic masculinity and the way men don’t access their feelings.

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The movie also stars Natalie Morales, Betty Gilpin, Jimmy Tatro, Mira Sorvino, Karen Gillan and “The Raid” action star Iko Uwais as the criminal they’re trying to catch (cue some very violent, but kind of funny fight and action scenes).

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Here’s the official synopsis:

When a mild-mannered Uber driver named Stu (Kumail Nanjiani) picks up a passenger (Dave Bautista) who turns out to be a cop hot on the trail of a brutal killer, he’s thrust into a harrowing ordeal where he desperately tries to hold onto his wits, his life, and his five-star rating. Directed by Michael Dowse, this action-comedy from 20th Century Fox also stars Iko Uwais, Natalie Morales, Betty Gilpin, Jimmy Tatro, Mira Sorvino, and Karen Gillan.

Screenwriters Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, are the producers, which isn’t a surprise because the movie does have shades of the somewhat similar crime comedy “Date Night.” “Stuber” arrives in theaters July 12, and Fox has released an F-bomb laden NSFW trailer as the movie enters its home stretch of marketing.