The Layover movie storyline. After countless lonely nights over a bottle of wine and “The Bachelor”, Seattle longtime friends Kate, a high school English teacher, and Meg, an ambitious cosmetics saleswoman, realize that they are going through a rough patch.
To take a break, the pair take an impromptu flight to Fort Lauderdale and find themselves seated next to handsome blond Ryan, who is on his way to a friend’s wedding. Suddenly the best friends get sucked into a destructive spiral of relentless competition and cut-throat one-upmanship with Ryan as the prize, especially when a Category 4 hurricane reroutes their flight to a St. Louis layover. They say all is fair in love and war, but is Ryan worth Meg and Kate’s years of friendship?
The Layover is a 2017 American sex comedy[1] film directed by William H. Macy and written by David Hornsby and Lance Krall, starring Alexandra Daddario, Kate Upton, Matt Barr, Matt L. Jones, Rob Corddry, Kal Penn, and Molly Shannon. Filming began early May 2015 in Vancouver, St. Louis, and parts of Florida, and was completed early June 2015.
Filming began in the first week of May 2015 in Vancouver, St. Louis, and parts of Florida, and wrapped in the second week of June 2015. The film was released on DirecTV Cinema on August 3, 2017, followed by a limited theatrical release in the United States on September 1, 2017, by Vertical Entertainment.
About the Story
Kate (Alexandra Daddario) and Meg (Kate Upton) are childhood friends and roommates in Seattle going through stressful times. Kate is a high school English teacher, bored of her regular curriculum and under pressure to quit by Principal Moss (Rob Corddry) who believes she should be in a different profession. Meg is a cosmetics saleswoman trying and failing to sell North Korean beauty products.
After a night of drinking away their stress, the adventurous Meg suggests they go on vacation to get their groove back. The reserved Kate is reluctant, but ultimately acquiesces as Meg had already booked non-refundable tickets to Fort Lauderdale using Kate’s frequent flyer miles. At night there is a tiff between the girls where Meg insinuates that Kate is not sexy enough to bag the really handsome guys.
Barely making it to their flight on time, Kate is put in a window seat and Meg gets an aisle seat. The middle seat is eventually occupied by Ryan (Matt Barr), a handsome firefighter on his way to a wedding. Both Kate and Meg are immediately attracted to him and begin to shamelessly flirt with him, but Kate eventually passes out having taken too many anti-anxiety pills.
A few hours into the flight, the plane is diverted to St. Louis due to a hurricane warning. The girls are taken to the local Sheraton and bump into Ryan, who invites them to drink and the hotel club. When Ryan learns the hurricane will delay his trip even further, the girls attempt to cheer him up with a dance competition. Before going to bed, Kate tells Meg that she will fight her for Ryan’s affections.
Their following day is unfortunate when during their ride in a hot air balloon, Kate is having a panic attack due to fear of heights and Meg accidentally pops a champagne cork into the only eye of the one-eyed pilot; and Meg ends up injuring her eye after a risky flip into the swimming pool. When it is learned the hurricane will move away from Florida, Ryan is able to get a ride from Craig (Matt Jones), a jewelry salesman who had taken a liking to Meg but had been continually rebuffed by her, and the girls ask to tag along.
Kate shows embarrassing childhood photos of Meg to the guys for their amusement and in response, Meg locks Kate in a messy gas station bathroom, forcing Kate to escape through a high window covered in feces. Back in the car, Kate fakes an injury to get a massage from Ryan, prompting Meg to put sleeping pills into a bottle of wine to give to Kate. When Kate declines to drink, Craig, who is driving, takes it instead, much to Meg’s horror. After a few hours, Craig eventually passes out and crashes the car, forcing the four to spend the night at a motel.
When Kate sees the pills in the bottle, she asks for a hotel room for herself. Meg says that she can have Ryan, but Kate proclaims she never wanted Ryan, just that she didn’t want Meg to have him. Meg decides to go to a local bar where Craig joins her. When Craig fails to impress Meg, he suggests to her that she should be open to the qualities of other guys. Back at the hotel, Ryan makes a pass at Kate, who gives in and has rigorous sex with him.
In the morning at breakfast, Meg tells Kate they should stop ruining their friendship over a guy, but when Meg lets slip that Ryan has a misshaped penis, something Kate had seen from having sex with him, Kate realizes Meg had sex with Ryan as well and reaches breaking point with her, with the two getting into a physical fight over their issues with each other, Meg’s selfishness and Kate’s unwillingness to take chances, making a mess of the motel lobby in the process. Their fight ends when the motel manager calls the police on them.
The Layover (2017)
Directed by: William H. Macy
Starring: Alexandra Daddario, Kate Upton, Matt Barr, Matt L. Jones, Rob Corddry, Kal Penn, Molly Shannon, Jennifer Cheon Garcia, Eric Gibson, Carrie Genzel, Roark Critchlow, Angela Moore
Screenplay by: David Hornsby, Lance Krall
Production Design by: Christopher Stull
Cinematography by: Mark Irwin
Film Editing by: Wendy Greene Bricmont
Costume Design by: Aieisha Li
Set Decoration by: Tamara Gauthier
Art Direction by: Roger Fires
Music by: Daniel James, Leah Haywood, Rob Ellmore
MPAA Rating: R for language throughout, sexual content and some drug material.
Distributed by: Vertical Entertainment
Release Date: August 3, 2017 (DirecTV Cinema), September 1, 2017 (United States)
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