I saw "Tag", starring Ed Helms-Chappaquiddick, Semi_Pro; Jon Hamm-Baby Driver, The Town; Isla Fisher-Nocturnal Animals, Hot Rod and Jeremy Renner-Arrival The Town.
Believe it or not, this is based on a true story about a group of guys that played the game of tag, as kids, and made it an annual game they continued playing for 30 years, into their 40's. They claimed that it kept them close as friends and their motto was 'You don't stop playing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop playing'-and I may not have the exact wording of it right but that was the gist of it. They had their rules. It was only in the month of May. No girls could play-remember, they were kids when they wrote it. Whoever was tagged last at the end of the month, had to start the next game the following year-you could say he was 'It' for a year. And sometimes, they would travel all over the country-some may have moved-and they would have to get inventive in their means of tagging their prey. Ed, Jon and Jeremy are 3 of the guys and Isla is Ed's wife. She likes to tag along for the fun-Ha Ha, I said tag along-plus she gets super charged up during the game, as she coaches on her husband, using strings of profanity. Jeremy has never been tagged-he is real athletic and has a super human Spidey sense as he moves like a ninja-and when Ed tells the rest of the gang that Jeremy is getting married and retiring from the game, they go all out in trying to get him before it's too late. During the end credits, they show the actual guys in action-I guess they used to film themselves at work-tagging each other in unexpected ways. One is caught in a shower and there is some brief nudity.
It's rated "R" for language, drug use and sexual content-brief nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 40 minutes.
I enjoyed it and would buy it on DVD.
Review of Tag
