Due Date (2010)

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Wikidata Q569941, film, IMDb tt1231583, TMDB 41733: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Robert Downey Jr. as star (Judging The Judge); 1 more episode agrees.

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Who talked about it

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check — Patreon

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

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Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Iron Man 3: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Iron Man 3 → Due Date. Both films interrogate Downey's star persona: we love him being an ass; here are the people he wronged.
    “This movie is interested in Robert Tank Jr.'s star persona and how weird it is.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:22:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Judge: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career-pattern): Due Date → The Judge. After Iron Man the only non-franchise outliers Downey signed on to were Due Date and The Judge.
    “and the 2 exceptions, the outliers are due date and the judge.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:24:46 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Todd Phillips: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (director-experiment): Due Date → Todd Phillips. Phillips, fresh off The Hangover, wanted to test how far he could push Downey's prickliness and still be liked.
    “I want to try to experiment with how far I can push Danny Jr. in a film and still have audiences like him.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:25:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career-pattern): Due Date → The Judge. After Iron Man the only non-franchise outliers Downey signed on to were Due Date and The Judge.
    “and the 2 exceptions, the outliers are due date and the judge.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:24:46 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (director-experiment): Due Date → Todd Phillips. Phillips, fresh off The Hangover, wanted to test how far he could push Downey's prickliness and still be liked.
    “I want to try to experiment with how far I can push Danny Jr. in a film and still have audiences like him.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:25:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): Iron Man 3 → Due Date. Both films interrogate Downey's star persona: we love him being an ass; here are the people he wronged.
    “This movie is interested in Robert Tank Jr.'s star persona and how weird it is.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:22:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Due Date: Todd Phillips said he made Due Date to see how far he could push Downey's oddness and prickliness before audiences stopped liking him. One host calls the film a secret masterpiece.
    “I think is a secret masterpiece”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:24:14 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.