A good laugh for everyone. That's all I can say. I applaud Robert Downey Jr. for maintaining his looks and ability to act. He is indeed gifted. A flexible actor. Comedy, action, drama, horror.. You name it, he can do it. I also applaud Zach Galifianakis for his very comedic acting and sense of humor. Indeed a great comedian.
PLOT: Taken from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_Date
Peter Highman (Robert Downey, Jr.) is on his way home to Los Angeles so that he can be there when his wife, Sarah, gives birth to their child, but another car rips the door off his ride at the airport. A man stares at him, and they accidentally switch bags when his are knocked over. After finding marijuana in the bag and having it confiscated, he boards the plane and notices that the same guy he switched bags with is in the seat behind him. When passengers are told to turn off cell phones, Peter tries to finish his text message to his wife. The man, Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis), an aspiring actor headed to Hollywood who went to Atlanta for his father's death, tells him to turn it off because attendants might assume he is a terrorist that will bomb the plane. Peter tell him to not say those words, but Ethan repeats them and Peter is asked to step to the front of the plane. After trying to explain, he is shot by the air marshal with a rubber bullet.
After being questioned by security, he is put on the no-fly list. While looking to see if any of the rental cars are unlocked, Ethan finds him while driving in a red Subaru Impreza. He offers him a ride and Peter is forced to accept. Ethan asks Peter many, many questions, but on the road trip, they stop at a Waffle House.
Ethan tells Peter he is going to see a woman named Heidi (Juliette Lewis) in a nearby town in Alabama to buy weed. While they are there, Peter is asked to babysit Heidi's kids for five minutes while Ethan goes to her 'pharmacy' to buy his 'medical' marijuana. After Ethan is done, they leave and go to a motel to get a room. When Peter tells Ethan he has no money on his credit card, they decide to pay in cash. However, he discovers that they only have $60, about $200 being spent on the marijuana. Peter instead decided that he would have his wife send them $500 dollars. The plan succeeds at first, but when ID is needed, they realize that they used Ethan's stage name, instead of his real name, Ethan Chase, the one on his driver's license. Peter accidentally insults the man (Danny McBride) at Western Union, who is handicapped, and is beat up. They go to a rest stop.
It rains, and we discover that Peter's father left him in 1977. They sleep in the car. The next morning, while Ethan is in the bathroom, Peter grabs all of Ethan's stuff, puts them on the sidewalk, and drives off. While in the interstate, he realizes that Ethan's father's ashes, which are in a coffee container, was still in the car. He thinks about leaving it on the side of the interstate, but instead drives back with donuts and coffee, claiming to Ethan that he just went to Dunkin Donuts for food. Ethan drives while Peter gets some rest. After a while of driving, Ethan starts to fall asleep. Peter wakes up as he feels the vibration since they are on the side of the interstate, and they crash and fall over to the interstate beneath them. They go to the hospital, and Peter had a broken arm and three cracked ribs. Ethan is not hurt, but his dog has to wear a cone. Peter's other friend, Darryl (Jamie Foxx), comes to pick him up, and he wants to leave Ethan after all the trouble he has caused. But he calms down and takes him along, although he has to ride in the back of Darryl's pick-up truck. They go to his house where Ethan gets the idea that, while Darryl and Peter's wife bumped into each other in San Diego back in February, nine months ago, they had an affair. While drinking coffee, Peter asks what the coffee was made of, and Darryl tells them it was their coffee they brought, which were the ashes. Darryl tells Ethan to get out, and they leave.
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Darryl has lent them his Range Rover and money, and after taking a wrong exit while Ethan is smoking marijuana, they end up at the border of Mexico. The security notices their glassy eyes, and while he goes inside the toll booth, Ethan manages to escape with Sonny, while Peter is still in the car. Peter is handcuffed to a table inside a trailer that is connected to a truck. He is left in there while two officers take his marijuana, and smoke it outside. Ethan comes back, and manages to steal the truck. During a cop chase on the interstate, the trailer flips over. Ethan helps Peter out, and they drive away in the truck. They go to Arizona, and stop at the Grand Canyon, where Ethan spreads his father's ashes. Peter confesses that he did try to leave Ethan back at the rest area, and he is forgiven. Ethan then decides to confess, his being that he has had Peter's wallet the whole time, and didn't want to give it back to him because he didn't want to travel cross country alone. Peter moves to attack Ethan, smacking his face off a door, but his phone rings and his wife tells him that her water broke, and that she is going into labor. They leave quickly. It is nighttime, and Ethan is trying to find tissues for his bleeding nose. He checks in the glove compartment, and finds a gun. Unintentionally, he fires it, and it hits Peter in the thigh. They are close to L.A. now, and they go to the hospital in which his wife is giving birth in. After finding the room which she's in, she gives birth to a baby girl, which Peter mistakens for a boy. She is named Rosie. Ethan departs for his meeting with the talent director and they say goodbye.
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