Take Me Home Tonight

Movie: Take Me Home Tonight

Genre: Romantic comedy

Synopsis: In the 1980’s, Matt Franklin (Topher Grace) is a recent M.I.T. graduate.  Much to the frustration of his father, Matt cannot decide what he wants to do with his engineering degree and is content to work in a video rental store until he figures things out.  One day Tori Frederking (Teresa Palmer) walks in to the store.  Matt has been in love with her since middle school, but never had the courage to ask her out.  On the spur of the moment, to impress her, Matt tells her he works for Goldman Saks. The boyfriend of Matt’s twin sister,Wendy (Anna Faris) is throwing his annual labor day party.  Matt decides to go to the party when he finds that Tori is going.  So, Matt, his best friend, Barry (Dan Fogler) and his sister all go to the party together. The rest of the movie follows the exploits of Matt and Barry as Matt tries to finally start a relationship with his long-time crush and ends up having the best night of his life.

My two cents: I am a sucker for romantic comedies and I really enjoyed this movie.  I am a big fan of Topher Grace and Anna Faris – and they did not disappoint. What I thought set this apart from other movies if its type is that it never descended into the realms of gross-out humor.  It had a lot of funny scenes, but never anything that made me cringe.  The awkwardness of Matt was easy to identify with and Topher Grace made him seem awfully likable.  And . . . there was some great 80's music.

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