THE DELIVERY MAN MOVIE REVIEW

The movie begins by showing David Wozniak’s (Vince Vaughn) apartment. He has dozens of overdue notices and such. He goes off to work as a meat delivery man for his father’s meat store and ends up with at least 3 parking tickets. He is clearly the loser of the family and tells his brother, who is expecting a child, that he has started growing pot for extra cash. He offers the family to pick up the jerseys for the family basketball game. No one trusts him and he promises he’ll come through. He gets the jerseys, but has his truck towed and lets the team down.

Later that night he goes to his ex girlfriend’s house. Emma (Cobie Smulders) is tired of David never calling and being irresponsible. She also thinks he’s hiding something in his apartment. She reveals she is pregnant and David freezes up. She tells him its fine; she’ll raise the baby on her own. David goes to his friend Brett’s house who is also his lawyer. Brett (Chris Pratt) has 4 kids and tells David to run from the kid while he can, kids are a nightmare. David realizes he wants a chance to grow up, be responsible, and raise the baby.

When David gets home there is a lawyer in his apartment. David pretends to be a Spanish speaking working and the lawyer tells him that the clinic that David donated sperm to used his sperm 533 times. He has 533 children and 142 of them are suing to know his identity. They only currently know him as his code name “Starbuck.”

David brings the papers to Brett who tells him not to look at the identities of the children, it will make them harder to beat in court. Brett is excited to pick up such a high profile case.

David decides to look at just one profile. It turns out his son is an NBA champion. Then he looks at another and helps his next son get an acting career. He helps his daughter get a job so she’ll stop using drugs. He identifies and follows about 20 of his kids without ever revealing his actual identity. He tells Brett he doesn’t want to be their father, but he’d love to be their guardian angel.

Meanwhile David attempts to apply for a loan for the 100,000$ he owes some drug dealers who will drown him if he does not pay. He is denied. He also visits Emma at work and takes responsibility for the baby, offering to attend an ultrasound with her. She tells him he can come as a friend.

David is overjoyed at the ultrasound. He pulls out his next child who turns out to be a physically and mentally handicapped boy names Ryan who lives in a home. David sees him there and is too scared to talk to him. Instead he pushes him around the home all day. The staff thank him for his commitment.

David is following a gay son of his into a hotel when he unwittingly walks into a meeting for Starbuck kids. David gives an impassioned speech about the power of siblings under the guise of being Ryan’s adopted father. Many of the kids recognize him from their various encounters and they marvel at the coincidence.

Brett picks David up and David talks about revealing himself. Little does he know his alternative nerdy son is behind them listening to everything.

The son follows him home and says he won’t reveal David’s identity if he can stay with him for awhile. Their personalities clash as the boy is a philosophy loving vegetarian and David is a coarse meat worker. David eventually tells the boy to leave because he needs to be dedicated to Emma and his “real family”. The boy is stung by this comment.

Later David tries to make it up to his son by promising a day to do whatever they want. The boy takes him hiking and they end up in a reunion for Starbuck kids that the kids are having in the park. The kids have a great time playing soccer and taking pictures. David picks up Ryan from his home and brings him to see the sunrise with his siblings. Before he leaves David tells Ryan his secret: he is Ryan’s father.

Brett is furious at David for being photographed with the kids. He tells him he was supposed to stay as far away from the impending court case as possible.

When David gets home he is water boarded by the drug dealers who want money for their pot. David threw out the pot previously and is now 100,000$ in debt with nothing to do about it but despair. He wants to tell the kids who their father is but he needs the money the suit will give him if he wins. 

David brings Emma to his father’s house for dinner. David’s father tells how before his wife died David somehow recovered the money to bring the whole family to Italy-a dream come true for her before she died. Emma later asks David how he got the money. He responds “a lot of manual labor. But good manual labor. “ The Starbuck children were made so David could give his mother her dream.

The Starbuck coverage has grown and people make fun of the “masturbateour” in every punch line. Emma thinks the entire thing is ridiculous, and David grows worried.

The drug dealers water board David’s father. He is greatly weakened and disappointed in David.

The trial begins. Brett is awkward and uncomfortable but eventually succeeds in making David the victor. David gets 200,000$ for his image being decimated. In his TV interview following the trial Brett says “David we did it!” and has to cover up by pretending David is his lover.

David has the money to pay back his debts but would rather continue to live in debt if he could tell his kids who he is. He will lose his winnings if he does however. He goes to his father’s house to talk and his father talks about building the meat business on 10$. He gives David a 10 and then says “but you also need your portion of the business and gives him a bag filled with thousands of 10$ bills.

The next day David logs onto the Starbuck facebook page and admits that he is Starbuck. He goes to tell Emma only to find an ambulance waiting outside of her apartment. He rushes to the hospital where she has gone into pre term labor. Luckily both her and the baby (a boy) are fine. He tells her he is Starbuck. She is shocked at first, but comes to accept it.

He goes out to the waiting room to see 142 of his children, plus his brothers and father, waiting for him laden with gifts. He shares the good news and thanks them all for being such a wonderful family. They go in to see their new baby brother, albeit in small groups