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Carole and I met Mandy at the Mall this afternoon to see this one.  I liked it.  A lot.

From Time Magazine:

Every weekend all across America, couples find a babysitter and head out for a romantic evening, intent on creating "us time" amid the distinctly unromantic morass of parenting. At some point, almost everyone does it, from suburban spouses to Michelle and Barack Obama. As a concept, then, director Shawn Levy's film Date Night is genius: not only does it validate this parents-need-playdates-too impulse, but it also gives such couples something to do on an actual date night. The movie is like cinematic happy hour for Mom and Dad. It barely needs a pulse to draw an audience.

Fortunately, Date Night has a bit more than a pulse. It's a lively, often astute piece of marital sociology wrapped up in an action frolic involving an extremely average New Jersey couple. Claire Foster (Tina Fey) is a real estate agent, her husband Phil (Steve Carell) a tax consultant. They wake too early, make lunches, pack their two kids off to school and themselves off to work and return home at night too exhausted for anything but sleep.