When a person reaches middle age, it’s natural to try and prove that you’re still young. That you can hang with the kids half your age. Kevin Hart tries to do just that by partying with a bunch of twenty-year-olds in the Netflix comedy, 72 Hours.
Hart reunites with Tim Story, director of Think Like a Man and Ride Along, for a film in which he plays a struggling exec in his 40s, who is accidentally added to a bachelor party group text chat. Rather than ignoring it or quietly removing himself, he decides to join the twenty-somethings on a wild three-day rager.
Hart is joined in the cast by Marcello Hernandez, Mason Gooding, Kam Patterson, Ben Marshall, Kevin Dunn, Zach Cherry, Teyana Taylor, and Andy Garcia. It’s an interesting mix of SNL sketch artists, stand-up comedians, and veteran actors.
From the trailer, it looks as if Hart has traded jokes about his height (or lack thereof) for jokes about his age.
The script is by Jon Hurwitz & Hayden Schlossberg and Kevin Burrows & Matt Mider. Hurwitz and Schlossberg are best known for the Harold & Kumar movies, as well as for co-creating Cobra Kai.
SYNOPSIS: A forty-year-old executive hopes to save his flailing career by joining a group of twenty-somethings on a wild three-day bachelor party, after he’s inadvertently added to their group text.
72 Hours hits Netflix on July 24th.
