The D Train2015
The D Train (2015)
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Critic Consensus: The D Train offers Jack Black a too-rare opportunity to showcase his range, but its story and characters are too sloppily conceived to hold together as a film.
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Cast
as Dan Landsman
as Oliver Lawless
as Stacey
as Randy
as Jerry
as Craig
as Zach Landsman
as Bill Shurmur
as Lucy
as Taj
as Renina
as Alyssa
as Dale Harkin
as Heather
as Himself
as Holly
as Classmate (Wendy)
as Hotel Employee
as Steve
as Employee #1 - Reggie
as Employee #2 - Older
as Ross Clark
as Flight Attendant
as Stripper #1
as Stripper #2
as Hot Girl
as Hollywood Bar Waiter
as Cab Driver
as Paul Flaim-Sports Talk Host
as Sports Talk Host
as Sports Talk Host
as Sports Talk Host
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Critic Reviews for The D Train
All Critics (130) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (67) | Rotten (63)
Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul, making their directorial debut, manage the difficult task of keeping the audience engaged even though both of the main characters are unlikable.
"The D Train" may be a scant and rather unconvincing comedy, but it deserves credit for taking a risk.
Nothing about "The D Train" feels the least bit authentic, and worse, little about it is funny. That's a deadly recipe for a dark comedy.
The last act of The D Train becomes a hilarious, deeply weird, and ultimately touching medley of delusion, humiliation, and friendship.
The movie goes for grin-and-cringe-inducing, and instead achieves "excruciating."
The movie flirts with a great darkness about disillusionment and self-loathing even as it races around spinning comedic plates. Too bad the filmmakers lose their nerve by film's end.
Audience Reviews for The D Train
Jet black comedy drama with two standout performances and a hard R rating.
Super Reviewer
The least awkward part of the movie was the gay sex.
Super Reviewer
The D Train is an odd movie. It's an interesting one, don't get me wrong, but it's an odd one for sure. I'm a rather faithful comedy fan and have said many times on this site before that I carried a rather rabid affinity for the fan appointed "Frat Pack" that originally consisted of Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Owen and Luke Wilson, Vince Vaughn and Will Ferrell. Any time any of these guys decided to head up a film there was a desperate hope they would include a couple of the others in the proceedings. Soon, Judd Apatow and his gang emerged and the universe has been expanding ever since. In the wake of this merger it always felt like Black was somewhat left behind. This was obviously unfortunate given Black is one of those guys who can make you laugh with a simple facial expression, but his output has become increasingly stale since hitting a high mark in 2008 with Tropic Thunder and Kung-Fu Panda. Looking back through his filmography it is almost alarming how little he has done in the past few years with his last out and out feature being the horribly marketed and little-seen The Big Year in 2011. With The D Train, Black seems to be making something of a statement in that, at the very least, he'd like to see his career go in a more mature way, one that puts him in the position of actually investing in his characters and developing his skills rather than simply cashing the quick check and making the same faces. We've seen this before from the comic, especially in the underrated Bernie, but here it is more of a concentrated effort than the seemingly haphazard way in which Black picked projects prior. read the whole review at www.reviewsfromabed.net
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