"Date Night"

I picked up a few DVD's at the library for this long holiday weekend - not that our life changes much because the banks and post offices are closed on Monday for President's Day! Tonight we watched "Date NIght" with Steve Carell, Tina Fey and Mark Wahlberg. Tina and Steve play a married couple whose life consists of 2 working parents, two kids and a household to maintain. While the husband of one of their friends confides to Steve's character that he and his wife are divorcing and asks him to keep it a secret, his wife is confiding the same info to Tina's character. As they ponder what might have happened in that "perfect" relationship, each begin to think of how they might prevent that happening to them. Steve's character decides to take his wife into the city for a nice dinner and make date night a little more special than usual. When they show up late at an exclusive restaurant and learn that reservations are made at least a month in advance, they decide to wait in the bar and hope that a table opens up. When the hostess comes through the bar calling a couple's name and doesn't receive a reply after several attempts, Steve tells her they're that couple and they are seated for dinner. That's when the fun begins as midway through dinner a couple of guys show up wanting to speak to them outside. These two are after the blackmailing couple who originally made the reservation and they won't believe that Steve and Tina aren't that couple. This is the start of a more exciting date night than they'd ever expected and, in the end, it does add a little spice to their life but first there are some twists, turns, and evasions along the way. Although it's not quite as hilarious as the movie trailers led me to believe, it's a fun movie and this couple (the Fosters) also begin to look at what's really important! Enjoy!

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