Taglines: Teens out to have fun. Parents out to stop it.
Taglines: See how the mother half lives.
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.
Twelve years later, Julie shares with Kayla and Sam that she plans to lose her virginity to her boyfriend Austin at prom. Kayla pledges to do so as well, though on a casual basis with her lab partner, Connor. Sam, a closeted lesbian, joins the pact to cement the bond with her two best friends. She goes to prom with the harmless Chad.
Lisa sets up a pre-party for the parents and kids. The girls then head to the prom, texting each other about their sex pact. The three parents hear Julie’s laptop and intercept the messages. Hunter deciphers their emoji codes, and they realize the girls’ pact. Lisa and Mitchell rush to stop their daughters, but Hunter tries to stop them. Hunter shares his intuition that Sam is gay, but at the first party, he sees her force herself to kiss Chad. Wanting to protect Sam from doing something she doesn’t want to do, he joins Lisa and Mitchell’s crusade.
Having been told that the after-party would be at Austin’s house, the parents go there. Instead, they find Austin’s parents Ron and Cathy engaging in sex games. After some awkward moments, Ron reveals that the after-party is at a lake house, but refuses to give the address. The trio realizes that Mitchell’s wife Marcie may have it, and go back to his house. Against Marcie’s wishes, who defends their daughter’s rights, they retrieve the address.
As they follow the girls from party to party, it becomes clear that each parent has their own motivation. Mitchell is overprotective and in denial over his daughter growing up. Hunter feels guilty for neglecting Sam during his bitter separation from her mother, who cheated on him. Lisa is struggling to let go of her only child, and is offended by Julie’s plans to go to distant UCLA.
Knowing that Austin and Ron have been texting, the parents return to Ron’s house, intending to grab his phone. After barging in on the couple playing a blindfold sex game, Hunter is forced to go along with it as Mitchell grabs the phone, which reveals that the girls are at a hotel.
At the hotel, a drunk Sam goes to bed with Chad, but decides she does not want to have sex, though she does give him a handjob. Kayla and Connor go off together, but she also changes her mind upon realizing her flippant attitude to her virginity, and they limit their sex to Connor performing cunnilingus for Kayla.
Blockers is a 2018 American sex comedy film directed by Kay Cannon (in her directorial debut) and written by Brian Kehoe and Jim Kehoe. The film is set in Chicago and stars Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz, and John Cena with supporting roles by Kathryn Newton, Geraldine Viswanathan, and Gideon Adlon. The film tells about a trio of parents who try to stop their daughters from losing their virginity on prom night. The film’s title and posters are a reference to the act of “cockblocking”; the rooster icon was removed for advertising on broadcast television and cable networks that objected, with only the Blockers text being shown.
The film premiered at South by Southwest on March 10, 2018, and was theatrically released in the United States on April 6, 2018, by Universal Pictures. It grossed $94 million worldwide and received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for its “humor and performances”, as well as for “intelligence and empathy” not often found in the genre.
Blockers (2018)
Directed by: Kay Cannon
Starring: Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz, John Cena, Kathryn Newton, Graham Phillips, June Diane Raphael, Hannibal Buress, Sarayu Blue, Geraldine Viswanathan, Gideon Adlon, Ramona Young, Rhoda Griffis
Screenplay by: Eben Russell, Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, Brian Kehoe, Jim Kehoe
Production Design by: Theresa Guleserian, Brandon Tonner-Connolly
Cinematography by: Russ T. Alsobrook
Film Editing by: Stacey Schroeder
Costume Design by: Sarah Mae Burton
Set Decoration by: Melisa Jusufi
Art Direction by: Heather R. Dumas
Music by: Tracy Bonham
MPAA Rating: R for crude and sexual content, and language throughout, drug content, teen partying, and some graphic nudity.
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release Date: April 6, 2018
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