The story: Emily Hirsch is a total f9ck up who fails at everything. His girlfriend breaks up with him and she suddenly disappears afterwards. The father (brilliant role by J. K. Simmons) starts searching for her.

The good: excellent acting performances, which are constantly witty and surprising. Lots of hilarious twists and turns. Simply a good fun movie about a search for a daughter, which turns into a rollercoaster disaster hunt!

Any bad? Cant think of any. Enjoy the ride!

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.

So Emile Hirsch and JK Simmons ... now that is a pairing that sounds fun. And I do understand if some may have expected something different from this. But as it is, this is a low budget comedy, dare I say road movie(?),that has a couple of things for it. And that's not just the actors themselves but the set up.

While it's simple, it's also very effective and it does draw quite a few talented actors in smaller roles to rub shoulders with our lead actors. None of us is without fault, so it's not easy seeing others people misery. But when done in a light and funny way (mostly) like in this movie right here, it is quite enjoyable to take that ride. Don't expect this to have Academy Award performances though. Still decent enough overall