Question 1

Is Game Night woke?

Accepted Answer

Game Night has a woke score of 7/100, which means it is not especially woke compared with higher-scoring titles. Game Night is a 2018 studio comedy about a competitive married couple and their friends whose regular game night turns into a real kidnapping and black-market chase after a staged murder mystery party goes wrong. The story follows sibling rivalry, mistaken identities, car chases, and teamwork to recover a Faberge egg from criminals. No identity politics, activist dialogue, gender or racial messaging, or social-justice themes appear in the plot, characters, or marketing. It plays as straightforward escapist entertainment centered on personal competition and slapstick humor.

Question 2

Is there DEI in Game Night?

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The biggest factors in our score are Representation / casting choices, Creator track record context. Max and Annie's weekly game night gets kicked up a notch when Max's brother Brooks arranges a murder mystery party -- complete with fake thugs and federal agents. So when Brooks gets kidnapped, it's all supposed to be part of the game. As the competitors set out to solve the case, they start to learn that neither the game nor Brooks are what they seem to be. The friends soon find themselves in over their heads as each twist leads to another unexpected turn over the course of one chaotic night.

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