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** Max and Annie decide to [[DungeonBypass [[TrackingDevice track Brooks' phone phone]] [[DungeonBypass to find him instead.]]
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** Ryan and Sarah find Brooks' wallet, which gives Sarah the idea to [[NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught call the credit card company and find out the company running the game, so they can bribe someone there to give them the answers.]]
** Max and Annie decide to [[CuttingTheKnot track Brooks' phone to find him instead.]]
** Max and Annie decide to [[CuttingTheKnot track Brooks' phone to find him instead.]]
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** Ryan and Sarah find Brooks' wallet, which gives Sarah the idea to [[NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught [[SequenceBreaking call the credit card company and find out the company running the game, so they can bribe someone there to give them the answers.]]
** Max and Annie decide to[[CuttingTheKnot [[DungeonBypass track Brooks' phone to find him instead.]]
** Max and Annie decide to
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The film will be released on February 23, 2018.
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* CompetitionFreak: Both Max and Annie get ''very'' competitive, to the point that their mutual competitiveness was part of what attracted them to each other.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: A lot of Max's stress stems from the fact that Brooks manages to effortlessly outdo him at everything. [[spoiler: Although it's ultimately subverted, as it turns out that the only reason Brooks manages to constantly win is through cheating.]]
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* BrickJoke: When Max and Annie are talking about Brooks and the stress his success causes Max with Dr. Chen, Dr. Chen asks if Brooks is single. [[spoiler: In the Three Months Later epilogue, she's present at Brooks' game night, assumedly as his date.]]
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* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: Much of Max's stress stems from being second fiddle to his older brother Brooks. Max has a decent successful life with a beautiful loving wife, but it's peanuts compared to Brooks' jet-setting life as a successful venture capitalist, that nets him enough money to buy (or give away) Max's dream car on a whim. Brooks even beats him every time they play a board, card or party game. [[Subverted: Max learns during the adventure that all of Brooks' gains are ill-gotten and criminal - the secret of his success is to cheat like hell. Brooks actually looks up to Max because even though his life is not as flashy compared to his, he came by it '''honestly'''.]]
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* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: Much of Max's stress stems from being second fiddle to his older brother Brooks. Max has a decent successful life with a beautiful loving wife, but it's peanuts compared to Brooks' jet-setting life as a successful venture capitalist, that nets him enough money to buy (or give away) Max's dream car on a whim. Brooks even beats him every time they play a board, card or party game. [[Subverted: [[spoiler: {{Subverted}}; Max learns during the adventure that all of Brooks' gains are ill-gotten and criminal - the secret of his success is to cheat like hell. Brooks actually looks up to Max because even though his life is not as flashy compared to his, he came by it '''honestly'''.]]
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* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: Much of Max's stress stems from being second fiddle to his older brother Brooks. Max has a decent successful life with a beautiful loving wife, but it's peanuts compared to Brooks' jet-setting life as a successful venture capitalist, that nets him enough money to buy (or give away) Max's dream car on a whim. Brooks even beats him every time they play a board, card or party game. [[Subverted: Max learns during the adventure that all of Brooks' gains are ill-gotten and criminal - the secret of his success is to cheat like hell. Brooks actually looks up to Max because even though his life is not as flashy compared to his, he came by it '''honestly'''.]]
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* LetsSplitUpGang: After Brooks is taken (with the others still believing nothing has gone wrong) each couple takes a different strategy to find Brooks and win the car:
** Kevin and Michelle are the first to figure out the game's first riddle, so they decide to keep playing the game to find Brooks.
** Ryan and Sarah find Brooks' wallet, which gives Sarah the idea to [[NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught call the credit card company and find out the company running the game, so they can bribe someone there to give them the answers.]]
** Max and Annie decide to [[CuttingTheKnot track Brook's phone to find him instead.]]
** Kevin and Michelle are the first to figure out the game's first riddle, so they decide to keep playing the game to find Brooks.
** Ryan and Sarah find Brooks' wallet, which gives Sarah the idea to [[NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught call the credit card company and find out the company running the game, so they can bribe someone there to give them the answers.]]
** Max and Annie decide to [[CuttingTheKnot track Brook's phone to find him instead.]]
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* TheBadGuysAreCops: The Bulgarian is said to have moles in the police force, so the protagonists don’t dare go to the cops for help.
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* TheBadGuysAreCops: The Brooks tells Max that the Bulgarian is said to have moles in the police force, so the protagonists don’t dare go to the cops for help. If that wasn't the case, Max and company's part of the action probably would have ended halfway through the movie.
* BookEnds: The movie starts with a quick overview of Max and Annie's meeting, courtship, then Max's proposal in Charades to Annie during a game night, followed by Max and Annie's wedding reception where they duel on a dancing video game. [[spoiler: The last scene is at a game night where Annie draws for Max the phrase "Bun in the Oven," revealing she is at last pregnant.]]
* BookEnds: The movie starts with a quick overview of Max and Annie's meeting, courtship, then Max's proposal in Charades to Annie during a game night, followed by Max and Annie's wedding reception where they duel on a dancing video game. [[spoiler: The last scene is at a game night where Annie draws for Max the phrase "Bun in the Oven," revealing she is at last pregnant.]]
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''Game Night'' is 2018 American mystery thriller film with BlackComedy elements directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein and written by Mark Perez.
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''Game Night'' is an 2018 American mystery thriller film with BlackComedy elements with some mystery and thriller elements, directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein and written by Mark Perez.
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* AffablyEvil: The Bulgarian is built up as a CompleteMonster, and he does have a long list of crimes including murder, torture, and human trafficking, but he’s very polite when confronting the players and seems willing to let them walk away unharmed, until [[spoiler: Brooks [[EatTheEvidence eats the]] MacGuffin. Even then, he only kidnaps Brooks and leaves the rest alone.]]
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* AffablyEvil: The Bulgarian is built up as a CompleteMonster, and he does have a long list of crimes including murder, torture, and human trafficking, but he’s very polite when confronting the players and seems willing to let them walk away unharmed, until [[spoiler: Brooks [[EatTheEvidence eats the]] MacGuffin. Even then, he only kidnaps Brooks and leaves the rest alone.]]
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** ''Then'' it’s DoubleSubverted: [[spoiler: Gary actually didn’t know anything about the MacGuffin that Brooks cheated The Bulgarian out of; when he shows up and shoots Gary for real, the players initially assume it’s yet another plot twist. It isn’t, and The Bulgarian kidnaps Brooks for real.]]
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Max Davis (Creator/JasonBateman) and his wife Annie (Creator/RachelMcAdams) are a HappilyMarried suburban couple with a mutual love of competition, which has led them to host a long-running couples’ game night at their home. Unfortunately, Max and Annie are [[TheLawOfInverseFertility having trouble conceiving]], which their doctor attributes to stress, due in no small part to the sudden arrival of Max’s [[BigBrotherBully overbearing]], [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter one-upping]] brother Brooks in town. Brooks crashes game night and invites his brother’s group over to his house the following week for a game night that he promises will “raise the stakes.” Annie encourages Max to attend and beat Brooks at his own game as a means of getting over his mental block.
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Max Davis (Creator/JasonBateman) and his wife Annie (Creator/RachelMcAdams) are a HappilyMarried suburban couple with a mutual love of competition, which has led them to host a long-running couples’ game night at their home. Unfortunately, Max and Annie are [[TheLawOfInverseFertility [[LawOfInverseFertility having trouble conceiving]], which their doctor attributes to stress, due in no small part to the sudden arrival of Max’s [[BigBrotherBully overbearing]], [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter one-upping]] brother Brooks in town. Brooks crashes game night and invites his brother’s group over to his house the following week for a game night that he promises will “raise the stakes.” Annie encourages Max to attend and beat Brooks at his own game as a means of getting over his mental block.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Max and Annie have to communicate through charades in the climax. Like nearly everything else in the movie, it’s {{Lampshaded}}.
-->'''Max:''' ''(exasperated)'' Charades. What a cute full circle.
-->'''Max:''' ''(exasperated)'' Charades. What a cute full circle.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Brooks ends up with three years of house arrest when all is said and done, which is an awfully light price to pay for his illegal activities... especially after he reveals that he sold the [=WitSec=] list on the black market for three million dollars. And then tipped the witnesses off, so they wouldn’t be in any danger... for $20,000 each.]]
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*AffablyEvil: The Bulgarian is built up as a CompleteMonster, and he does have a long list of crimes including murder, torture, and human trafficking, but he’s very polite when confronting the players and seems willing to let them walk away unharmed, until [[spoiler: Brooks [[EatTheEvidence eats the]] MacGuffin. Even then, he only kidnaps Brooks and leaves the rest alone.]]
* AllPartOfTheShow: The movie runs absolutely wild with this trope, PlayingWith it several different ways:
** Initially played straight: An “FBI agent” enters the house and sets up the mystery, when two very real armed thugs burst in and attack both him and Brooks before abducting the latter. These thugs aren’t the mystery company’s actors, but Max and the rest of the party guests assume they are and that the abduction is scripted.
** {{Inverted}} when the fake kidnappers arrive, brandishing prop guns. They’re initially mistaken for real assailants but quickly break character when they realize something has gone awry.
** {{Subverted}} later on, when it turns out [[spoiler: the abduction and subsequent chase ''was'' part of the show— Max’s neighbor Gary hijacked Brooks’ game to find his way back into the weekly game night. The thugs are real felons, but Gary convinced them to add some realism to the game, including his own fake death by gunshot.]]
** ''Then'' it’s DoubleSubverted: [[spoiler: Gary actually didn’t know anything about the MacGuffin that Brooks cheated The Bulgarian out of; when he shows up and shoots Gary for real, the players initially assume it’s yet another plot twist. It isn’t, and The Bulgarian kidnaps Brooks for real.]]
** Finally {{parodied}} by the film’s end: [[spoiler: Max declares that he’s ready to have kids with Annie and accept the responsibility of being a father, to which Brooks leans in and tells them that he engineered the ''entire night’s events,'' including millions of dollars’ worth of property damage and at least one death, to teach his brother the lessons he needed to learn. As Annie and Max stare in shocked silence, Brooks tells the unconscious Bulgarian to get up and break character; he doesn’t, and Brooks admits after a {{beat}} that he’s [[ItAmusedMe just fucking with his brother.]]]]
* TheBadGuysAreCops: The Bulgarian is said to have moles in the police force, so the protagonists don’t dare go to the cops for help.
* AllPartOfTheShow: The movie runs absolutely wild with this trope, PlayingWith it several different ways:
** Initially played straight: An “FBI agent” enters the house and sets up the mystery, when two very real armed thugs burst in and attack both him and Brooks before abducting the latter. These thugs aren’t the mystery company’s actors, but Max and the rest of the party guests assume they are and that the abduction is scripted.
** {{Inverted}} when the fake kidnappers arrive, brandishing prop guns. They’re initially mistaken for real assailants but quickly break character when they realize something has gone awry.
** {{Subverted}} later on, when it turns out [[spoiler: the abduction and subsequent chase ''was'' part of the show— Max’s neighbor Gary hijacked Brooks’ game to find his way back into the weekly game night. The thugs are real felons, but Gary convinced them to add some realism to the game, including his own fake death by gunshot.]]
** ''Then'' it’s DoubleSubverted: [[spoiler: Gary actually didn’t know anything about the MacGuffin that Brooks cheated The Bulgarian out of; when he shows up and shoots Gary for real, the players initially assume it’s yet another plot twist. It isn’t, and The Bulgarian kidnaps Brooks for real.]]
** Finally {{parodied}} by the film’s end: [[spoiler: Max declares that he’s ready to have kids with Annie and accept the responsibility of being a father, to which Brooks leans in and tells them that he engineered the ''entire night’s events,'' including millions of dollars’ worth of property damage and at least one death, to teach his brother the lessons he needed to learn. As Annie and Max stare in shocked silence, Brooks tells the unconscious Bulgarian to get up and break character; he doesn’t, and Brooks admits after a {{beat}} that he’s [[ItAmusedMe just fucking with his brother.]]]]
* TheBadGuysAreCops: The Bulgarian is said to have moles in the police force, so the protagonists don’t dare go to the cops for help.
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* FightClubbing: Ryan insists, to ridicule from his friends, that this is a secret pastime of the ultra-wealthy. [[spoiler: It turns out that he’s absolutely correct.]]
* JugglingLoadedGuns: "Is this gun real?"- Cue It is, and Annie shoots not only a light fixture, but [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace her husband]] through reckless mishandling.
* MacGuffin: The plot is triggered by Max’s brother Brooks screwing a notorious crime lord known only as The Bulgarian out of a very expensive Faberge egg. When Brooks is kidnapped, Max sets out to recover theshot.egg in exchange for his brother’s life. [[spoiler: The egg itself is actually a worthless fake. The real MacGuffin is hidden inside: a list of names and addresses of people in the Federal Witness Protection Program.]]
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* MacGuffin: The plot is triggered by Max’s brother Brooks screwing a notorious crime lord known only as The Bulgarian out of a very expensive Faberge egg. When Brooks is kidnapped, Max sets out to recover the
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* CelebrityParadox: The Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse exists in that film's world, since ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' is mentioned, along with the two actors who play Hulk in it. Creator/RachelMcAdams plays in said movie universe, as Christine Palmer, Film/DoctorStrange's LoveInterest.
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* CelebrityParadox: The Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse exists in that film's world, since ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' is mentioned, along with the two actors who play Hulk Bruce Banner/Hulk in it. Creator/RachelMcAdams plays in said movie universe, as Christine Palmer, Film/DoctorStrange's LoveInterest.
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* CannotTellFictionFromReality: The players are specifically told by Brooks that they're not gonna know what's real and what's fake in the mystery game. Right after telling them that, Brooks gets kidnapped right under their eyes, and they consider that kidnapping as part of the game.
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* TurbineBlender: A man holds Annie at gunpoint right next to a private jet plane. The turbine turns on and said man gets sucked in it.
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* TurbineBlender: A man holds Annie at gunpoint right next to a private jet plane. The turbine turns on and said man gets sucked in it. There are no LudicrousGibs coming out of it, however.
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* CannotTellFictionFromReality: The players are specifically told by Brooks that they're not gonna know what's real and what's fake in the mystery game. The guy who told Right after telling them that that, Brooks gets kidnapped right under their eyes, and they consider this that kidnapping as part of the game.
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* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Nobody bar Max knows that Creator/EdwardNorton played [[Film/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner/Hulk.Banner/Hulk]].
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* CannotTellFictionFromReality: The players are specifically told that they're not gonna know what's real and what's fake in the mystery game. And they The guy who told them that gets kidnapped right under their eyes, and they consider this as part of the game.
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''Game Night'' is 2018 American mystery thriller film with comedy elements directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein and written by Mark Perez.
The film stars Creator/JasonBateman and Creator/RachelMcAdams and the supporting cast includes Creator/KyleChandler, Billy Magnussen, Sharon Horgan, Lamorne Morris, Kylie Bunbury, Creator/JessePlemons, Creator/MichaelCHall and Creator/JeffreyWright.
A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselves trying to solve a murder mystery.
The film will be released on February 23, 2018.
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* CelebrityParadox: The Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse exists in that film's world, since ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' is mentioned, along with the two actors who play Hulk in it. Creator/RachelMcAdams plays Christine Palmer, Film/DoctorStrange's LoveInterest.
* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Nobody bar Max knows that Creator/EdwardNorton played Bruce Banner/Hulk.
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''Game Night'' is 2018 American mystery thriller film with comedy elements directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein and written by Mark Perez.
The film stars Creator/JasonBateman and Creator/RachelMcAdams and the supporting cast includes Creator/KyleChandler, Billy Magnussen, Sharon Horgan, Lamorne Morris, Kylie Bunbury, Creator/JessePlemons, Creator/MichaelCHall and Creator/JeffreyWright.
A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselves trying to solve a murder mystery.
The film will be released on February 23, 2018.
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* CelebrityParadox: The Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse exists in that film's world, since ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' is mentioned, along with the two actors who play Hulk in it. Creator/RachelMcAdams plays Christine Palmer, Film/DoctorStrange's LoveInterest.
* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Nobody bar Max knows that Creator/EdwardNorton played Bruce Banner/Hulk.
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