Blockers(2018)
Universal Pictures Apr 6, 2018 | Wide
Three parents try to stop their daughters from losing their virginity on prom night.
Releases
Original Release | Apr 6, 2018
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Technical Specifications
Sound Mix: Aspect Ratio 2.39:1
Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1
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Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Summaries
Plot Summary
- On the day of prom, Julie (Kathryn Newton) shares with her best friends Kayla (Geraldine Viswanathan) and Sam (Gideon Adlon) that she plans to lose her virginity to boyfriend Austin (Graham Phillips). Kayla immediately pledges to do so as well, though on a casual basis with her lab partner and school drug cook Connor (Miles Robbins). Sam, a closeted lesbian confused about her feelings, is reluctant but joins the pact out of a desire for a shared experience that will bind her to her two best friends as they go on to college. She goes to prom with the harmless, Fedora-wearing Chad (Jimmy Bellinger).Julie's mother Lisa (Leslie Mann) puts on a Pre-party for the parents and kids. Julie got admission to UCLA, where Austin is also going, but hides that from her mother as she is not very supportive of her going there. When Julie leaves, Lisa finds the UCLA acceptance letter in her bedroom.Mitchell (John Cena), Kayla's father, greets Lisa and notes that she has been evading his attempts to catch up. Sam's free-spirited father Hunter (Ike Barinholtz), divorced from her mother after his infidelity, arrives in a limousine for the girls and pledges to make this night the best of her life. The girls head to prom and text each other about their sex pact; back home, Mitchell and Lisa hear Julie's still-open laptop and intercept the messages. Hunter helps them decipher the emoji codes and they realize the girls' pact. Lisa and Mitchell rush to "cock block" their daughters, and Hunter tries to stop them. Hunter shares his intuition that Sam is gay and that Chad is a beard, but at the first party, he sees her force herself to kiss Chad. Wanting to protect his daughter from making a mistake, he joins Lisa and Mitchell's crusade.As they follow the girls from party to party, it becomes clear that each parent has an unresolved problem behind their motivation. Mitchell is overprotective and in denial over his daughter's sexuality, and thinks she needs protecting from men like Connor. Hunter feels guilty for neglecting Sam during his bitter separation from her mother Marcie (Sarayu Blue), who cheated on him and assaulted him in public to his humiliation. Single mother Lisa is struggling to let go of her only child, in denial over Julie's plans to go with Austin to UCLA instead of to University of Chicago forty-five minutes away. This culminates in an angry phone call between Lisa and Julie, who claims that UCLA is the furthest she can get from her imposing mother and that she is not following Austin, it is the other way around.A drunk Sam goes to bed with Chad but decides she does not want to have sex after all. Chad is caught up in the moment and prematurely ejaculates. Kayla and Connor go off together, but Kayla changes her mind about her flippant attitude to her virginity and they mutually agree to get to know each other better. The parents arrive and Mitch storms into the room and throws Connor through the wall; Kayla is initially furious but ultimately touched by her father's good intentions and reveals that she does not need protecting, as he already taught her everything about protecting herself. Sam and Hunter share a tender moment where he reveals that a good night was the best he could give her in return for his neglect; Sam officially comes out to her father, who is deeply moved at being the first person she told. Sam goes to indulge Hunter in his much-sought prom night photo, but Hunter declares that he will remember the moment without one. Lisa sneaks into Julie and Austin's room and is moved by how much the two clearly love each other. She sneaks out of the hotel room unnoticed and leaves the two of them alone.Lisa promises to keep in touch with Mitchell more, whose friendship she had been spurning because he represents her daughter's youth. The two of them also make Hunter welcome, acknowledging his emotional pain of being ostracized. The three girls share prom night stories and Sam (following Hunter's advice) comes out to them, to which Julie and Kayla are extremely supportive. They leave Sam with her crush, Angelica (Ramona Young); the two share a romantic kiss. Chad raps for the crowd and everyone dances. Three months later, Julie goes off to college, with Sam and Kayla driving with her to California. As they drive away, Lisa realizes she's been added into their group text, which is filled with plans to get marijuana, cocaine and other drugs. As the three parents run for the car, the girls reveal it was a prank and text a final "I love you" to them.
Storyline
- Single mother Lisa Decker drops off her young daughter, Julie, for her first day of kindergarten. She watches on as Julie is joined by two other girls, Kayla and Sam. Kayla's dad Mitchell and Sam's dad Hunter introduce themselves and become close friends after seeing the bond between their children.. In suburban Chicago, Great Lakes High School seniors Julie, Kayla and Sam, who have been best friends since they met the first day of their school life, are preparing for prom night. The parent that took each to school that first day - Lisa, Mitchell and Hunter respectively - had the potential to match their daughters' friendship, but it has not materialized in quite the same way. Despite brawny, sports-minded Mitchell - who nonetheless is prone to emotional tears - texting her to do things all the time with his wife Marcie, Lisa, the single mom who has devoted her entire being to only offspring Julie, quietly ignores those attempts to be buds for her own personal reasons. Julie and Mitchell don't as quietly ignore overgrown adolescent Hunter's messages, he who they have not kept in touch with since he and Sam's mother, Brenda, split. Hunter has generally been a non-existent part not only of the social circle around their daughters and their daughters' friends, but of Sam's life. Without telling their parents, the three girls have entered into a pact to lose her respective virginity on prom night, each having a different reason for wanting to lose her virginity that night. While Julie wants it to be a special night with her boyfriend of six months Austin, Kayla feels it's a rite-of-passage she will eventually go through, her prom date, Connor, as good a person as any. Sam, still in the closet to everyone, wants to feel part of the crowd and will go along with testing the straight waters with her date Chad, while she truly has her heart for Angelica, who is openly out. As the three couples head off on prom night, Lisa, Mitchell and Hunter learn of their daughters' pact, each who has his or her own reason to try and stop them. Lisa doesn't want Julie to make the same mistake she made with her first, Julie's father - who dropped out of her life shortly after their sexual encounter - that encounter which resulted in Julie. Lisa also does not want to lose Julie, who is the entire focus of her life. Mitchell is not emotionally ready for Kayla to do anything besides the sports related goals to be the best they have worked on together their entire lives. And Hunter, while wanting Sam to have a fun, sexual life, wants her to have it with someone of the correct gender, he deep in his heart knowing of Sam's homosexual orientation. The teen couples and Lisa, Mitchell and Hunter, as two groups, get into one misadventure after another as the parents try to track their daughters and their dates before they feel the girls will be making the biggest mistake of their young lives. — Huggo Three parents of three daughters who are best friends with each other do everything that they can to stop their daughters from losing their virginity on the night of their prom. What begins as a mission ends up being a wild night to remember. — RECB3
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