A couple (Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani) experiences a defining moment in their relationship when they are unintentionally embroiled in a murder mystery.
The relationship between Leilani (Issa Rae) and Jibran (Kumail Nanjiani) starts out like many others where every moment of their time is spent in kissy-face mode. Fast-forward four years and they are on their way to a friend’s party and get into an argument that makes them suddenly realize they have grown apart and neither is happy with the other. Many of their issues are rooted in the fact that his career as a producer of documentaries and hers in Social Activism seem to clash at every level. Leilani also thinks marriage is problematic and Jibran definitely wants to be together for the long haul. At the very moment they concede to one another that this is an official breakup, a large thump on their windshield cuts the conversation short while they try to figure out what just happened. As they rush out of the car to figure out who they hit, the obviously wounded gentleman jumps back on his motorized bike in order to flee from another random guy name Mustache (Paul Sparks) who has been chasing him. They immediately put their relationship woes on the backburner after the guy who was chasing the guy they hit, identifies himself as an officer, basically kidnaps them, and drags them along to continue their pursuit. Once they catch up with the original guy, the chaser runs him over and kills him and the couple is left holding the bag. Still under a cloud about what happened, they realize they have instantly become fugitives and as they try to recover and plot out their future they realize along the way that they still have a great deal of respect and love for each other.
The plot thickens as they plan their strategy to take the dead guy’s phone that he left behind and try to figure out what he had that made the fake cop chase him in the first place. When they realize that the envelope he carried was full of blackmail materials, they each are fearful of their lives, yet their crazy ideas that come about from the past times they shared together make for a hilarious chase that leads to nowhere many times before they find a suitable plan to solve the mystery. In the end, when they both have exhausted all their resources and have run out of energy to evade the police, they find out that they were not suspects at all as they were just part of a means to an end as the police department had been tracking their movements hoping to catch their thief. They also find out that after working so hard together to solve the mystery, they are a lot more compatible than they thought and together they decide there are more reasons to be together than apart.
Actors Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani are excellent at what they do and director Michael Showalter really worked the plot to provide a wide array of hilarious and touching moments for the couple who seems to have a toxic relationship, and yet the struggles they go through together bring out the best in each other. This gives the audience something to look forward to as the myriad of twists and turns cover a full stretch of emotions that make it difficult to keep a straight face even when they are seriously cutting each other down or courageously trying to lift each other up.
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