Director Rawson Marshall Thurber steers the material with a steady hand. The editing keeps the jokes brisk; the tone rarely lingers long in sentimentality, but when it does, it lands. Cinematographer Barry Peterson frames most sequences with a roving, daylight-friendly palette that underlines the film’s road-movie bones: stretches of interstate, motel fluorescence, and the cramped intimacy of a van that becomes both refuge and pressure cooker. The film’s soundtrack and scoring choices accentuate the comic rhythm without ever trying to do the heavy emotional lifting for the actors.