Inventing a nonexistent business deal for the benefit of his loving but long-suffering wife (Kathryn Hahn) and his technophobe boss (Jeffrey Tambor), Dan heads off for Los Angeles determined to seduce party-animal actor Oliver (James Marsden, never so good in a film) into attending their 20th high-school reunion. Newcomers Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul’s darkly hilarious “The D Train” dares to take the homoerotic subtext of bromantic comedies to its logical conclusion without resorting to the cheap gay panic humor so closely associated with the genre.įour years after his deservedly lauded work in “Bernie,” Jack Black gives another terrific performance as Dan Landsman, a socially maladroit family man given to casually fibbing.īarely tolerated by the other members of the alumni association at his suburban Pittsburgh high school (one played by Black’s longtime collaborator Mike White), their self-appointed president Dan thinks he’s found a way to become a hero when he spots the most popular in the guy in their class in a suntan-lotion commercial.