Delightful sex comedy ‘The Overnight’ hits all the right notes

An unpredictably weird and delightful sex comedy, "The Overnight" has a sly take on contemporary coupledom.

Written and directed by Patrick Brice, who was once a festival driver here in Park City, the movie centers on a somewhat sexually frustrated but essentially happy couple (Adam Scott, Taylor Schilling, both excellent) who have recently moved to L.A. from Seattle and don't have any friends. Alex (Scott) wonders if it's okay to ask parents he meets at a kid's birthday party if they would like to be friends.

And yet the couple's son, a boy of about five, is exactly how they make friends. The lad plays with another boy in the park and the other father, Kurt (Jason Schwartzman) comes over to chat. He turns out to be cool, if a little odd, and Alex and Emily (Schilling) accept a dinner invitation, bringing their boy along. When it's time to go home, Kurt and his French wife Charlotte (Judith Godreche) suggest the boys simply crash while the parents stay up talking and drinking some more. Sure, why not? Also, Kurt turns out to be a genius at putting little boys to sleep, employing a piano and a light machine to that purpose.

Kurt is so charismatic, talented and rich (his home looks palatial to the more middle-class Alex and Emily) and his wife so beautiful and sweet-tempered that you know things have to go completely bonkers, and they do. Smoking weed and watching videos of Charlotte starring in a breast-pump instructional video are just the beginning; soon there is skinny-dipping, and it turns out Kurt's most awesome accomplishment of all is his Louisville Slugger-sized manhood, a prop (I think) that not only earns major laughs but causes distress and plot complications.

This is a fresh, sharply observed, zany, offbeat adult comedy (somewhat reminiscent of Scott's "Friends with Kids" as well as of "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice") that I'm guessing will attract a top-tier distributor and also heralds a bright future for Brice.

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