The Daytrippers (1997)
Directed by Greg Mottola
Eliza D'Amico thinks her marriage to Louis is going great until she finds a mysterious love note to her husband. Concerned, she goes to her mother for advice. Eliza, her parents, her sister Jo, and Jo's boyfriend all pile into the station wagon and go to the city to confront Louis with the letter. On the way, the five explore their relations with each other and meet many interesting people.
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What critics compared The Daytrippers to
Yet here’s an uproarious and touching picture on that theme, directed by Greg Mottola, who made the 1997 independent film “The Daytrippers,” and co-produced by Judd Apatow, who wrote and directed “Knocked Up.” Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who were high-school buddies in Vancouver, began working on the script when they were thirteen.
Greg Mottola, who made the terrific Manhattan picaresque "The Daytrippers," directs "Superbad" with his characteristically light touch, even if it's used in the service of filthy sight gags, endless profanity and an inordinate obsession with bodily fluids (the ante started with the hair gel gag in "There's Something About Mary" has now been upped to menstrual blood).
"Superbad" was directed by Greg Mottola, best-known for "The Daytrippers" (1996) and some episodes of the "Arrested Development" TV series — good things to be known for, actually.
The winning new teen romp Superbad was written by Evan Goldberg and Judd Apatow's protégé Seth Rogen, and directed by The Daytrippers' Greg Mottola, but it still feels like the concluding film in Apatow's trilogy of raunchy, big-hearted, improvisation-heavy comedies about man-children torn between the pleasures of eternal adolescence and the relentless pull of adult responsibility.
Greg Mottola -- who hasn't directed a movie since his 1996 Slamdance Film Festival indie hit, "The Daytrippers" -- is on surer ground when he follows the bizarre, even dangerous coming-of-not-quite-age quest of Seth and Evan, whose friendship proves as sweet as it is convincing.
Directing his first feature since the indie gem "The Daytrippers," Greg Mottola takes care to ground the improbable plot in a realistic, low-rent neighborhood and authentic characterizations.
His previous movies - "The Daytrippers," "Superbad" and "Adventureland" - demonstrated his capacity for depicting the longings of misfit characters, an ability that comes into play here.
Pineapple Express is this summer’s precise equivalent to Superbad : a Judd Apatow-produced buddy comedy directed by a proxy from the indie world (last time around, it was The Daytrippers ’ Greg Mottola; this time it’s All the Real Girls ’ David Gordon Green).