I thought it was above average LMN movie to be honest. Andrea Bowen plays the bored sexless housewife who of course still madly loves her husband who seems to be too involved with his work (medical equipment salesman) and sports on TV than making love to his bored and neglected wife.
So. CarrIe (Bowen) has two besties/coworkers who seem to be a bit naughty.. On a girls' night in Beth tells the other two about the hall pass thing, which apparently has saved a number of marriages. It involves a one time only cheating on the spouse to help spruce up the marriage. Carrie dismisses it. But when all three go on a conference trip, in the hotel bar Carrie notices her teen idol Dante from her favourite band. So the other two girls see the opportunity for Carrie to use her hall pass and leave her with him. After a number of drinks and seemingly interesting conversation with Dante he tries to seduce her, but as they're in a heated passionate kiss, Carrie comes to her senses and rejects him. This is as far as I'm going to say not to spoil the movie, altough a number of the contributors already have.
I just have one message for one contributor who thought the title was off-putting Hall Pass Nightmare. A hall pass has nothing to do with high school or anything like that. It's an expression like getting the green light etc. Or other expressions with other meanings such as ghosted or catfished etc.
One other thing which I found to be the only unrealistic thing in the movie was in the bar scene where Dante tries to pick up a woman who's waiting for her partner. Now a celebrity fighting in public would in real life get into a heap lot of trouble. But here he beats on the woman's partner with patrons just looking on and the couple do not press charges. That was the movie's downfall to me.
Anyway I thought the movie was good. No one cheated on anyone for a change as for LMN movies goes. Andrea did a great job. Matt Magnusson overdid his part. Justin the hubby reminded me of Dick Van Dyke not facially but in movie characters. I'll give this one a seven.
