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D Train (The)

Country: USA, Language: English, 97 mins

Original Title

Bad Bromance
  • Director: Andrew Mogel; Jarrad Paul
  • Writer: Andrew Mogel; Jarrad Paul
  • Producer: David Bernad; Jack Black

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Vicarious popularity...high school reunions...hero worship...latent closets - daunting stuff!

First: why would anyone want to attend a high school reunion?

Two reasons: either to show-off a well-earned success, or...teetering on the sinister, to re-kindle an unrequited love/friendship...i.e. unpopular.

Let's face it, any high school friend - worth their salt - stays in contact...all the others are mere forgettable acquaintances thrown at you by a locational circumstance.

Why would anyone want to organise such a tortuous affair? The successful. The lovelorn.They say the difference between a straight man and a gay man - wholly dependent on one's constitution - is alcohol.

Black (unpopular) and Marsden (faux successful) re-unite, get rat-arsed and f**k...the unlikeliest coupling in the known universe...copious amounts of cocaine can turn a handsome man feral.

Although billed as a comedy...the imperceivable humour dissipates rather rapidly into an intoxicating bleakness. For one, emotions run deeper than a one-off, one-night bang...

For the other is was a one-off, one-night bang. Or, was it?

And that's where the film - sadly - fails. The stage is set for some serious soul-searching...but, swerves - this is more of a prang than a fatal collision.

If it had been a collision, the fatalities would have piled high...death to youthful idealism, to sugar-coated memories, to self-awareness, to all that you hold dear, to high school reunions.

What a mindf**k that would have been.


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The(ir) Blurb...

All his life, Dan Landsman (Jack Black) has never been the cool guy. That's about to change - if he can convince Oliver Lawless (Marsden), the most popular guy from his high school who's now the face of a national Banana Boat ad campaign, to show up with him to their class reunion. A man on a mission, Dan travels from Pittsburgh to LA and spins a web of lies to recruit Lawless. But he gets more than he bargains for as the unpredictable Lawless proceeds to take over his home, career, and entire life. Showcasing Jack Black and James Marsden's most outrageous performances to date, THE D TRAIN serves up the question: how far would you go to be popular?

Cast & Characters

James Marsden as Oliver Lawless;
Jack Black as Dan Landsman;
Kathryn Hahn as Stacey;
Mariana Paola Vicente as Hot Girl;
Mike White as Jerry;
Kyle Bornheimer as Randy;
Henry Zebrowski as Craig;
Patrick Kearns as Reunion classmate;
Steffie Grote as Reunion Classmate;
Denise Williamson as Alyssa