THE PREMISE:

"When a sext to the wrong number sends a group of clueless men into a panic, they recklessly dive into an all-night journey through NYC to save their friend, revealing their own misguided and toxic views on women along the way." 

OUR MOVIE REVIEW:

Caper brings a tight knit, middle aged friend group together for a poker night that takes a deviant turn that tests the limits of their friendship and what they’re each willing to sacrifice to save one of their friends from a humiliating, life altering mistake.

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Phil is a successful accountant who has been in a heated affair with a woman at his work following a rough divorce. Phil goes into excruciating vulgar detail, as he describes his newfound lover and their proclivity for taboo and deviant sexual acts to one of his friends. Phil reveals that he has accidentally sent an explicit text message to his boss that will end his career and life as he knows it.  He quickly becomes depressed and suicidal over the incident, as his friends scramble to work together to find a way to delete the text message from Phil’s boss’s phone before she wakes up in a matter of hours.

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All of the characters are dynamic and unique with their own personalities, motivations, baggage and insecurities. One of the friends Billy (Sam Gilroy) serves as an open minded, philosopher type who elects to stay in the apartment and comfort Phil, while the other friends head out to attempt to save Phil from what he sees as a life-ending humiliation.

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I found myself laughing out loud many times throughout the film.  The combination of comical banter between longtime friends and the barrage of asinine, self-sabotaging actions throughout make for an amusing, chaotic hour and a half filled with goofy hijinks and unexpected surprises. Caper’s late night impromptu New York adventure reminded me of the insomniac tone of Martin Scorsese’s After Hours. It successfully balances laughs with some unsettling, cringe-inducing feelings for what the characters are going through to help their friend out of his predicament. Caper is offbeat, occasionally tense and effortlessly hilarious in its unorthodox approach to a buddy comedy gone wickedly awry.