In New York City, a case of mistaken identity turns a bored married couple's attempt at a glamorous and romantic evening into something more thrilling and dangerous.
Phil and Claire Foster are a couple who have been married for several years. Their days consists of them taking care of their children and going to work and coming home and going to bed. But they find time to have a date night wherein they go out and spend some time together. When another couple they know announce that they're separating because they're in a rut, Phil feels that he and Claire could be too. So when date night comes Phil decides to do something different. So they go into the city and try to get into a new popular restaurant. But when it's full and still wanting to do this, Phil decides to take the reservation of a couple who doesn't show up. While they're having dinner two men approach them and instructs them to stand up and go with them. They think the men are with the restaurant and want to talk to them about taking someone else's reservation. But it appears the couple whose reservation they took crossed someone and the two men work for this person. The men are after something, but whatever it is they don't have it.—[email protected]
Married with two children, the loving couple of Phil and Claire Foster--he, a tax lawyer; she, a real estate agent--watch the passion and the desire in their marriage wane, week after week. Is it possible that the daily routine, parenting, and the endless to-do lists are beginning to shake the foundation of this normal, yet overworked couple from New Jersey? Undoubtedly, a proper date night at a chic restaurant in Downtown Manhattan could put some zing into their lacklustre relationship; however, a desperate decision and a hopeless case of impersonation will have the Fosters running from the police and a ruthless crime kingpin. Could this unforeseen misadventure finally reinvigorate Phil and Claire's stale love life?—Nick Riganas
A married couple, tired of the mundanity and domesticity of their lives, try to liven things up by going on date night. They try to get into a restaurant without a reservation but when this proves problematic they take on the identity of a couple without a reservation. This has some unforeseen, unpleasant consequences.—grantss
Phil and Claire Foster (Steve Carell and Tina Fey) are a married couple from New Jersey with two children, Ollie and Charlotte, and whose domestic life has become boring and routine. Their sex life is perfunctory and demystified. Phil is a tax lawyer while Claire is a Realtor. They are motivated to reignite their romance after learning that their best friends, Brad and Haley (Mark Ruffalo and Kristen Wiig), are planning to divorce to escape the married-life routine and to have more excitement in their lives.
To avoid the routine that had become their weekly "date night", Phil decides that he will take Claire to a trendy Manhattan restaurant, but they cannot get a table. On the way in Phil gives $20 to a couple who shares a sob story about how their car got towed and wont be released unless they pay $15. Phil & Claire say they know its a scam but agree to give $5, but Phil only has a 20. Phil steals a reservation from a no-show couple, the Tripplehorns, despite Claire's misgivings. While eating they are approached by two men, Collins (Common) and Armstrong (Jimmi Simpson), who question them about a flash drive they believe Phil and Claire stole from mobster boss Joe Miletto (Ray Liotta). Phil and Claire explain that they are not the Tripplehorns, but the men threaten them at gunpoint and don't believe them (They think Phil and Claire were using the Tripplehorn alias to blackmail Miletto and had written a ransom note to him under that name). Not seeing any other way out, Phil lies and tells them it's in a boathouse in Central Park.
At the boathouse, Claire pretends to search; while Collins and Armstrong's backs are turned, Phil hits them with a paddle and escapes with Claire on a boat. At a police station, Phil and Claire talk with Detective Arroyo (Taraji P. Henson), but discover Collins and Armstrong are also detectives, presumably on Miletto's payroll. Realizing they cannot trust the police, they decide to find the real Tripplehorns. They return to the restaurant and find the cellphone number of the Tripplehorns.Phil and Claire find themselves in a position with no money and ask money from strangers, who call it a scam. They make a collect call home and ask the babysitter to take the kids to her home.
Claire remembers a former client, Holbrooke Grant (Mark Wahlberg), a security expert and James Bond-like action hero. Claire knows the real estate firm from which Grant bought his apartment and breaks into its office to get Grant's address. He is consistently seen never wearing a shirt. At his apartment, Grant traces the cellphone signal to an apartment owned by Thomas Felton. Collins and Armstrong arrive (the police get info on the breaking in at the real estate office and the file that Phil and Claire were looking at), but Phil and Claire escape in Grant's Audi R8.
They arrive at Felton's apartment and break in. They question Felton, nicknamed "Taste" (James Franco), and his wife "Whippit" (Mila Kunis) about the flash drive and Joe Miletto. It turns out that they went to the restaurant, but left when they spotted Collins. Realizing they are in danger, the couple give the flash drive to Phil and flee. When Phil and Claire get back in the Audi, Armstrong and Collins shoot at them. Phil and Claire crash the Audi head-on into a Ford Crown Victoria taxicab, resulting in their Audi and the Ford being attached at the bumpers. Phil and the cab driver (J. B. Smoove) decide to drive off to get away. Phil climbs into the Ford to navigate while Claire navigates the Audi. Phil checks the flash drive on the driver's Amazon Kindle and finds pictures of district attorney Frank Crenshaw (William Fichtner) with prostitutes. After evading Collins and Armstrong, they are eventually hit and are separated by an SUV. The cab falls into the river; Phil and the driver escape, but without the flash drive. The cab drowns with the flash drive.
On the subway, Phil determines that the pics were from a strip-bar called the Peppermint Hippo where Whippit worked. Miletto owns the Hippo. He made the flash drive so that Crenshaw cant prosecute him on his other illegal businesses. Phil thinks that Whippit stole the flash drive from Miletto but were blackmailing the DA.
They return to Grant's apartment, and Grant is reluctant to help after becoming exhausted by their incompetence, but Phil begs and he agrees. Phil and Claire go to an illegal strip club that Crenshaw frequents, with Claire under the guise of a new prostitute and Phil as her pimp. After doing a pole dance for Crenshaw, they confront him and tell him they are the Tripplehorns.
Collins and Armstrong come in and hold them at gunpoint and take them up to the roof with Crenshaw. Miletto arrives with henchmen and it is revealed that Crenshaw has been paid by Miletto to keep him out of jail. When Phil mentions the photos (Crenshaw didn't know that Miletto made a flash drive of his photos), an argument escalates between the mobsters and Crenshaw, Collins and Armstrong talk. Phil asks Claire to count to three (her typical method of calming their children). When she does, a helicopter appears and Arroyo (who had been running into Collins and Armstrong on the trail of the Fosters all night and had gotten suspicious) and the SWAT team arrest Miletto, Crenshaw, and everyone else, as well as Collins and Armstrong. Arroyo reveals to Claire that she was notified by Grant, who supplied Phil with a wire.
After being declared heroes, Phil and Claire enjoy breakfast at a diner, where Phil admits he would marry Claire and have their kids all over again if given the chance. When they return home, they engage in enthusiastic kissing on their front lawn before lying on their backs and watching the sky.
