North by East Village

Date Night

(2010)

Two brilliant TV comedians gives us about the 23 minutes of a small screen half-hour's worth of entertainment, mostly front-loaded, with some good bits in the end-titles outtakes and a very brief bump from James Franco about 2/3 of the way through. In between, a ponderous Wizard of Oz story, with a huge debt to the film that inspired me to classify all films as Wizard of Oz films or Not-Wizard of Oz films, After Hours. It also steals its potentially fatal misidentification in a tony dining/drinking establishment directly from Hitchcock.

Oh, "HBO?" you're asking; a free sample from DirecTV a while back; this was one of only two films, I believe, that seemed remotely worth recording.