Take Me Home Tonight is a 2011 American comedy-drama film directed by Michael Dowse and starring Topher Grace and Anna Faris alongside Dan Fogler and Teresa Palmer.

The screenplay was written by Jackie and Jeff Filgo, former writers of the television sitcom That '70s Show, of which Grace was a cast member.

The film follows a recent college graduate who wants to change his career plans after his old high school crush invites him to a party.

The title comes from the 1986 Eddie Money song of the same name, also played in the theatrical trailer and on the menu screen of the Blu-ray and DVD releases.

Matt Franklin is a recent MIT graduate, working at a Los Angeles Suncoast Video store in 1988 while trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, something that his LAPD officer father has grown impatient with.

When Matt's high school crush, Tori Frederking, walks into the store, he lies that he works at Goldman Sachs.

Barry snorts some cocaine he found in the glove box of the stolen car and gets involved in a dance-off, and Kyle proposes to Wendy in front of everyone.

Propelled down the hill, it ends up hitting several parked cars, flys off an embankment, and crashes through a wooden fence into a backyard swimming pool.

Matt's dad, investigating the giant steel ball in the pool, smirks proudly when he finds, and then pockets, his son's name tag.

[9] Its release remained delayed until Relativity Media subsidiary Rogue acquired the film from Universal Pictures for $10 million.

The site's critical consensus reads, "It has a charming sweetness about it, but Take Me Home Tonight is neither funny nor original enough to live up to the comedies it evokes.

[12] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade C on scale of A to F.[13] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote that "Take Me Home Tonight has just enough heart and retro party spirit to hold the line before familiarity breeds contempt.

David Denby of The New Yorker wrote: "The movie is amiable enough: the young Australian actress Teresa Palmer is lovely and crisp, and the Canadian writer-director Michael Dowse manages the party traffic well.