After their best friends, Joan and Bernie, hook up with one another, Danny and Debbie find themselves drawn to one another. One night together leads to something more, and soon the couple is navigating commitment and all the problems that it entails.

About Last Night is a remake of the 1986 film starring Demi Moore and Rob Lowe. Admittedly, I can’t remember if I’ve ever watched that movie, so I can’t accurately compare the two… yet. But I did enjoy this version of the film, primarily because of Regina Hall and Kevin Hart, who play Joan and Bernie.

Like many romantic comedies, About Last Night’s highlight is the side plot involving best friends fighting and/or falling in love.

Hall and Hart provide some much-needed chaos to offset the more bland relationship between Danny and Debbie. They’re passionate, snarky, and fight over everything… not to mention some of the truly weird kinks they seem to have in the bedroom, but their relationship certainly feels more authentic to me, if you can believe that!

Danny and Debbie are fine. They’re not super dull, just… nothing exciting either. Neither of them is looking for a relationship, but after one night… there’s a relationship blooming, even if they both deny it for a little while. But Danny has doubts, and Debbie seems to be all in, which, of course, will create conflict.

Joy Bryant and Michael Ealy have enough chemistry to keep Danny and Debbie from dragging the movie down entirely. Still, it’s hard to focus on them as the couple we need to care about when you’ve got Regina Hall and Kevin Hart stealing every scene they appear in, apart and together.

In any case, About Last Night has plenty of laugh-out-loud moments that make it worth watching. I’m eager to watch the 1986 movie to see how it inspired its remake and if Rob Lowe and Demi Moore’s characters are any more interesting than Danny and Debbie. I realize I’m being a bit harsh, but something was missing between the two that made me honestly care whether they would end up with their HEA.

Watched: 01/16/2023
Notable Song: So Far, So Good by Sheena Easton