Substitute teacher Rob Anderson is offered a full-time teaching job, but is reluctant to make that long-term commitment. He and his fiancée, physician Megan Swope, fly to Charleston, South Carolina for their wedding the next day. Megan's disapproving father, high-powered businessman Reginald, has invited Megan's successful ex-boyfriend Cody. Rob goes out drinking with his best man, Benny, only to wake up on his wedding day, naked in an elevator in a hotel far from the church. He is arrested for streaking, but when the church bells ring, he is pulled back in time, waking up in the elevator an hour earlier; Rob realizes he is stuck in a time loop, reliving this hour. Desperate to go through with the wedding, Rob gradually adapts to his situation. When he learns that no wedding at that church has ever been canceled, he concludes that God has intervened to make it so. Rob develops multiple ways to obtain clothing and travel to the church; gains the trust of a police duo, a biker gang, and singer Brian McKnight; learns that Cody is planning a hostile takeover of Reginald's company; and has meaningful conversations with his mother, Megan, and Reginald. He eventually discovers that Megan's jealous maid of honor Vicky abducted him and put him in the elevator after hiring a prostitute named Callie to seduce him; however, Rob did not cheat, and Callie only ended up helping Rob with his vows. In the final iteration of the loop, Rob enlists the cops to race across town. He calls Callie to invite her to the wedding and bring his suit from the hotel to the Church. He is able to expose Cody and Vicky, earns Reginald's approval, and marries Megan. He tells her he has accepted the teaching job and wants to have a stable, grounded life with her.
The film was released on Netflix on August 11, 2017.
Reception
Naked received generally negative reviews from critics upon release, criticizing the concept and humor. In his review of the film, Mike D'Angelo of The A.V. Club said, "For many, Groundhog Day qualifies as a near-perfect comedy. Apparently, though, there are some highly motivated people out there who think it’d be a whole lot funnier if the guy stuck in the endless time loop were constantly running around with his bare ass exposed and his hands covering his junk." He later added, "Let’s place the blame where it squarely belongs: on the moronic premise. Groundhog Day but he’s naked? Why?" and later said that the film "is so tickled by the very idea of public nudity that it squanders much of its energy on Rob’s efforts to find clothes." "The film clearly does not care about establishing a realistic world," Cody Schmitz of Decider said about the film, "It just wants to get Wayans in that magic elevator and in the nude." Renee Schonfeld of Common Sense Media called it a "lowbrow farce with action, swearing and partial nudity." The film holds 0% on the review aggregator websiteRotten Tomatoes based on 8 reviews.
