Product Description
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Hall Pass (DVD)
Wedding Cers' Owen Wilson and Going the Distance's Jason
Sudeikis star as best friends who have both been married for a
long time. They love their wives, but, like some guys, just can't
help checking out every other woman who crosses their paths. Fed
up with this habitual rubber-necking, their wives take a bold
approach to revitalize their marriages by granting their husbands
a "hall pass" -- one week of freedom to do whatever they want --
no questions asked. At first, it sounds like a debauched dream
come true for the newly sprung bachelors, but they quickly
discover that their expectations of the single life -- and
themselves -- are completely and hilariously out of sync with
reality. Produced, directed and co-written by the outrageous
Farrelly Bros., this marital comedy of errors also stars Alyssa
Milano , Curb Your Enthusiasm's JB Smoove, O® nominee Richard
Jenkins and more.
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Anyone familiar with the work of writer-directors Bobby and
Peter Farrelly, especially There's Something About Mary, will be
neither surprised nor shocked by the raunchy, gross-out gags that
permeate Hall Pass. But what Farrelly fans might not expect is
what comes at the other end of the spectrum--namely, a tender,
even sentimental point of view in which marriage is sanctified
and even a couple of delusional doofuses end up on the right side
of righteousness. Buddies Rick (Owen Wilson) and Fred (Jason
Sudeikis) have attractive, loving wives (Maggie and Grace, played
by Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate, respectively) and, in
Rick's case, a couple of cute kids. But boys will be boys, and
after catching their husbands eyeing other women's butts, making
rude remarks in front of friends, and so on, the ladies decide to
offer them "hall passes"--an entire week during which they can
pretend they're not married and do whatever they want, no
questions asked, while the wives head for Cape Cod. Rick, for
one, is nonplussed; here is a decent guy who refuses to buy
for his underage babysitter (not to mention resisting her
flirtatious come-ons) and generally tries to do the right thing,
and he suspects there's more than meets the ear to Maggie's offer
(Fred, on the other hand, expects to spend the week scoring young
hotties with lines like "You must be from Ireland, 'cos when I
look at you my penis is Dublin"). But while Maggie and Grace find
themselves courted by some studly minor-league baseball dudes,
Rick and Fred mostly just strike out. Their shenanigans are
accompanied by a parade of typically sopric Farrelly gags:
penis jokes (and a couple of real penises), masturbation jokes,
scatological jokes, "I'm so stoned" marijuana jokes, and sexual
terms (like "eye banging" and "fake chow") that can't be
explained on a family website. Some of this is funny, most merely
dumb; some viewers will think the humor goes too far, others not
far enough. But the overriding impression is that a decade or
more past their biggest hits, the Farrellys, who are now in their
50s, have grown up--at least a little. --Sam Graham