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		List Price: $14.98		Label: LIONSGATE Salesrank: 16801 Released: April 14, 2009
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		MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: DVD

Editorial Review:
You lost your father's car, you sold your prom date, and a guy named "Tito" wants you dead!

The Night Before (The Lost Collection) Reviews:
A wrong side of the tracks story
2009-11-14 - Winston Connelly (Keanu Reeves) wakes up disheveled and with out any memory of what happened the night before. Evidently he was supposed to take a date (Lori Laughlin) to the prom and has misplaced her, misplaced his father's car. Now he is being told that he is to have a showdown with Tito (Trinidad Silva) on Bacon or rather Beacon Street at sunrise.

Watch for the obligatory car chase and Tara (Lori) is caught wearing an out dated tube top and a vinyl mini-skirt.

Now he must regain his memory and piece together events before sunrise. This has the feel of the movie "D.O.A."


Simply one of the best movie of the 80'
2009-11-02 - If you want to enjoy a simple, family movie, then The Night Before is the one for you. It's one great movie with Keanus Reeves when he was young, and Lori Loughlin. This a mishap of young boy that get to take to the prom nothing less than the most popular, prettiest girl in high school to the prom due to a bet that Lori Loughlin lost. You won't believe what happen outside of a prom night.
Enjoy this delightful movie from the '80s, I recommended for the whole family. If you enjoyed it in VHS, you sure gonna love it in DVD.

Great Comedy Lacking Widescreen
2009-05-23 - Originally I got this great 80's comedy from an HD rip online, but this is just as good and with a decent cover. Sadly, like all of the "Lost Collection" series, it is in full screen and has a fake 5.1 soundtrack. For those who want to know, all of the "Lost Collection" films are supposed to be in 5.1 Dolby Digital audio. This is not true. Every channel sounds the same as track 3, which is all of the music, dialog and special effects mixed together. A perfect 5.1 DVD has music in the first channel, sound effects with some dialog in the second, everything mixed together in the third, track 4 is base, and the last two channels are for rear sounds, sometimes containing a clearer isolated music track. None of the "Lost Collection" discs are like this, making them fake 5.1 audio and that really hurts my view of Lionsgate. "The Night Before" is still a must-have comedy, but don't look for awesome sound or anamorphic widescreen.

The Night Before
2009-05-15 - I'm a fan of Keanu Reeves. He's the right person to fill this shy, backward, timid boy role. I like the premise of the movie. It really captures the spoof of the tug versus the clueless boy. Even though the violence was there this movie made me laugh almost all the way through.

Oh, What A Night!
2009-05-06 - I've never been much for Keanu Reeves. I'd always thought the guy was a throwaway schmuck who somehow got lucky and impressed the right people to get to where he is today. Not to mention a lousy actor! Can anyone honestly buy Reeves as an Englishman(in Bram Stoker's Dracula) or a southern lawyer(in The Devil's Advocate)? Then someone got the hot idea of trying to make Reeves into some kind of action star like in Point Break, Speed and The Matrix! I don't know who thought this was a good idea, but Reeves is as convincing playing a tough guy or cop as he would be playing Cab Calloway.
But it's not so much Reeves' fault, he just isn't put in the right roles. That's where the Night Before comes in. This is the ultimate Keanu reeves film. I used to watch it over and over back when it was constantly played on HBO. I even had the one sheet poster hanging in my bedroom at one time!
It's the best acting Reeves has ever done. Why? Because he's totally believable in this role. This dorky kind of character is what Reeves is born to play. He's so good in this, he carries the whole film. Bill & Ted is a close second, and I'll give the guy credit, he was good in River's Edge. But this is Reeves' masterpiece.
It's kinda like a lighter version of Scorsese's After Hours. Reeves is high school nerd, Winston Connelly. He wakes up in an alley in a slum part of L.A. and can't remember how he got there. As he wanders around the streets and has run ins with various characters, bit by bit he remembers what had happened earlier that night. He had taken the most popular girl in school, Tara, to the prom(she had lost a bet with her friend and as the loser, she had to go to the prom with the school geek. It's funny coz she pretty much tells Winston this flat out, but he either doesn't care or is too dumb to understand the situation), but through a series of goofy events, he ended up selling her to a pimp and winding up on that pimp's hit list. Now Winston must find Tara in the wee hours of the morning before he ends up dead, either at the hands of the angry pimp, or Tara's detective father. During his quest he meets a bunch of odd characters, including a helpful prostitute played by Teresa Saldana. A subplot appears to have been cut from the film. I think the idea is that Winston had had sex with Saldana's character the night before, as she hints at this when we first see her. Plus, I remember the plot description on the back of the VHS box saying that Winston had lost his date, his car, and his virginity all in one night! Oh, well, it woulda been cool. I know I'd do Teresa Saldana(and Lori Loughlin for that matter). In the club scenes we're treated to George Clinton, Bootsy Collins and the P-Funk All stars. In fact, it's because of this movie that I even know of George Clinton. If I hadn't had seen The Night Before, I'd probably never had bought a Parliament or Funkadelic album. They have some awesome songs for the film. If anyone knows if these songs are available on cd, please let me know.
By the end of the night, Winston has gone through a period of self discovery and has become a tougher and more confident guy. Not to mention Tara now has the hots for him!
This is quite the entertaining movie. I gave it five stars, mostly due to childhood nostalgia, but this film is actually pretty good. I'm surprised it never became more popular. Again, Reeves is terrific in this part. This is a part he was born to play, and as absurd as many of the situations are, he's believable as this character. Even when he becomes more of a tough guy throughout the night, it really works coz he's so clumsy when trying to be a hero. Lori Loughlin is a snotty little turd, but man, is she a cutie.
The film was directed by Thom Eberhardt, who also made the quirky and fun, Night of the Comet.
It's great that Lionsgate has released a batch of "lost" films of the 80s, I hope to see more released over time. The DVD is pretty much bare bones except for an optional Trivia Track which is very disappointing because it barely pertains to the movie at all! I was hoping for some cool The Night Before fun facts, but it was all lame-o information. But it is still great to finally have this one out on DVD. Thankfully I never bit the bullet and bought that bootleg copy on Ebay!