The long night that is the subject of the film's title is a desperate search of a middle-age man for his adult daughter, who has failed to return his phone calls. Out of concern, the father enlists the woman's ex-boyfriend to follow a set of dead-end leads in the search for the daughter. In this process the two buddies create mayhem and madness during the long night's journey into day.The film is worth seeing for the deadpan style of J. K. Simmons as the father. His one-lines and facial responses are priceless, as he and the young man named Martin encounter a wide assortment of weird characters and situations.Young Martin is a musician, who is still recovering the the end of his relationship with the daughter. As the film progresses, we feel more and more sympathy for the father and especially Martin. The closing scene that shows Martin as a gifted banjo player and vocalist is a nice close to the film.While "All Nighter" is not a terribly original film, the situations and the dialogue were nonetheless engaging, especially with the stellar work of Simmons. Ironically, the nondescript daughter who was the object of the long night's journey into day, was the least developed character in the film.

There was no point to this story. It's low budget. The script is bad. At least it's short (only one hour and twenty minutes), but it's not enjoyable. Complete waste of time. The actors were nice. But you are kind of waiting for something to happen, some development, and it never comes. It isn't a comedy either (we didn't laugh once).

Absolutely boring. I saw a trailer and it seemed like something worth seeing. First 20 minutes and it's obvious, that the trailer was the best part. J.K. Simmons was not enough, though he did his best. Ginnie and Martin were really bad. And all the exhibition of friends was not funny at all.

A small, little indie comedy about a father who has to team up with his daughter's ex-boyfriend in order to find out where she is after it appears to be missing. J.K. Simmons plays the smart ass, witty father; Emile Hirsch takes the role of the "down on his luck", well intentioned but simple ex-boyfriend. Both of which are phenomenal actors and they do fine work here, but I feel as though their talents were almost wasted in this movie. Do not get me wrong however, I thought that this was a decent movie and I do recommend it as a light movie that you could pop on in the afternoon or early evening if you wanted to kill some time. However, I felt as though these two actors should be given much more challenging material than something like this which doesn't supply much depth in terms of character. Putting that aside though, I thought they did a good job and probably kept me from declaring this movie as something forgettable. The film has some laughs and does capture the awkward moments of their circumstance very well without falling into "Meet the Parents" styled humor territory. It does have a secondary character, played by Taran Killam, that after a while I found to be slightly grating but I never found it to ever completely break the movie. The two leads run into some quirky characters and cumbersome scenarios that kept me entertained. I should clarify though that this movie isn't quite like most shenanigans movies where the characters go through their personal arches over the course of a single night a la "Adventures in Babysitting", "License to Drive", "Hollywood Knights", or "Stretch". This plays the shenanigans a tad bit more low-key and realistic rather than completely over-the-top or all that wacky. It still does show the leads run into a pickle or two and have a few colorful characters along the way; and they do have their own character arches that they go through which are done well enough here.All around, I thought that this was a passably entertaining movie with a good moral or two. Has a good amount of chuckles. Good actors that may have actually elevated the film to be as decent as it is. It's well made, the narrative is relatively predictable but I like that it never makes anyone the villain when it so easily could have in some cases. So if you feel like watching a quirky, innocent comedy that will entertain you for an hour and a half then I think this will do.