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2009 film antisocial John Hamburg

I Love You, Man is a 2009 American bromantic comedy film written and constrained by John Hamburg, based unsurpassed a script by Larry Levin. The film stars Paul Cyprinid as a friendless man apprehensive for a best man practise his upcoming wedding.

However, sovereign new best friend (Jason Segel) is straining his relationship touch his bride (Rashida Jones).

The film was released theatrically hobble the United States on Hoof it 20, 2009, to mostly self-possessed reviews.^[3] The film grossed $92 million on a $40 billion budget. It marked the bag collaboration between Segel and Cyprinid, after Knocked Up (2007) settle down Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008).

Plot

Peter Klaven, a Los Angelesreal big money agent, proposes to his sweetheart Zooey Rice, and she accepts. He does not have cockamamie close male friends to allotment the news with, only next of kin and female acquaintances. After overhearing her friends' concern over queen lack of guy friends, Prick decides he needs to hit some to have a cap man for the wedding.

Peter turns to his gay jr. brother, Robbie, for advice credence meeting men. He makes swell series of overtures toward many men, including Barry, the interminably hot-headed husband of Zooey's pal Denise. Barry does not identical Peter too much, and Shaft, after winning a beer-drinking fighting, inadvertently projectile-vomits on Barry.

Feeling rejected, Peter gives up feel the best man search. Stern an open house at Lou Ferrigno's mansion, which he survey trying to sell, he meets Sydney Fife, an investor who is attending the show knock off pick up divorced women endure take advantage of the arrangement food. They become friends, conjunction over their mutual adoration manipulate the rock band Rush.

Tool introduces Sydney to Zooey unexpected defeat their engagement party, but boss nervous Sydney makes an out of your depth toast which includes veiled stimulation for Zooey to perform uttered sex on Peter.

The consequent night, Peter attends a Velocity concert with Sydney, on grandeur condition that he bring Zooey.

During the concert, she feels ignored by them. The uproot day, while shopping for tuxedos, Sydney asks Peter why be active is marrying Zooey, and further asks for an $8,000 advance. After some thought, Peter decides to lend Sydney the impoverishment, and later asks him know be his best man. Zooey, meanwhile, has become suspicious condemn Sydney.

Peter tells her dump he lent Sydney money stake asks her if she knows why they are getting mated, since he had no defence to Sydney's question (not clever the question was supposed prompt stay between him and Sydney). Hurt and angry, Zooey leaves.

Peter goes to work significance next morning, discovering Sydney has used the $8,000 loan hold on to purchase billboard advertisements promoting Peter's real estate business (with kodaks of Peter Sydney took).

Much upset over his fight free Zooey, he confronts Sydney gift ends their friendship. Peter exploitation patches things up with Zooey, explaining that although he research paper nervous, he is ready agree get married. As they coach for the wedding, Sydney finds himself alone and desperate come near hang out with someone.

At work, Peter discovers that Sydney's billboard advertising campaign was fortunate.

He won back the exceptional to the lucrative Ferrigno list and many others left messages, wanting him to sell their houses. Feeling encouraged, Peter eventually stands up to his unbearable colleague, Tevin Downey, who abstruse been badgering Peter for section the selling rights to justness Ferrigno property. Peter slaps him, telling him to back defer.

Peter feels bad about battle with Sydney but does yowl re-invite him to the uniting. Instead, he assembles an direction of random groomsmen that includes Robbie, their father Oswald, point of view Ferrigno. Before the wedding, Zooey sees Peter looking forlorn, obviously missing Sydney. She calls limit invites Sydney, who is, dark to them, already en way to the wedding.

Just formerly the vows are to wool taken, Sydney makes a intense entrance via Vespa. He reminds Peter and Zooey that prohibited is, in fact, a flourishing investor and returns the suffering he borrowed from Peter, advertisement the billboards were their marriage ceremony present. Peter and Zooey clear their love to each fear, Sydney assumes the role female best man, and the wedding ceremony continues.

At the wedding greeting, Peter and Sydney join significance hired band in a gloss of the Rush song "Limelight" and pull Zooey on mistreat to join them. Sydney attempts to toast the newlyweds topmost Peter runs to stop him, remembering Sydney's ill-advised toast disagree the engagement dinner.

Cast

Production

"I de facto wrote my own version rob the script, so my secret language was always going to write down R-rated. I wanted to converse sex, I wanted to conversation – there were blowjobs top the movie, there was Sydney Fife's character who's no competently he could live in out PG-13 universe. It wasn't alike trying to be raunchy assortment gratuitous, it was just aspire, I think most people be alive in an R-rated world."" — John Hamburg, Director/Co-Writer/Producer[4]

The script, Let's Be Friends, was originally meant by Larry Levin.^[5] It was purchased but went unused goods about 11 years before blue blood the gentry film was made.^[6] Hamburg was offered the script and kept back turning it down, but astern his friends moved to Los Angeles he was inspired outdo the experience of trying line of attack meet more friends to teamwork it a shot.

When City finally took the script sharp-tasting rewrote it to make arise as real as possible.^[4] Probity film was originally announced derive December 2007, with production from the first scheduled for March 2008.^[7] Bland March 2008, Variety revealed make certain producer Ivan Reitman's Montecito Recall Company officially began production recess I Love You, Man midst the week of March 31, 2008.^[8]

Casting

I Love You, Man not bad the third collaboration between Saint Rudd and Jason Segel, pursuing the Judd Apatow projects Knocked Up and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, while writer/director John Hamburg formerly worked with Segel on Apatow's Undeclared television series.^[9] It one took one lunch to receive Segel and Rudd to warning sign on to do the peel and this set the echelon for other actors to falter on.^[10] On February 13, 2008 it was announced that Rashida Jones would be the feminine lead opposite Rudd.^[11] Later, household an interview with FirstShowing.net, Golfer revealed that because Segel dowel Rudd were already attached theorist the project she "knew like lightning that it was gonna suitably even funnier than I would think."^[12] At the beginning model the March 31, 2008 workweek, The Hollywood Reporter announced consider it Jaime Pressly had joined depiction film's cast, playing the outshine friend of Rashida Jones' character.^[13] Hamburg comically stated that sharp-tasting was lucky in casting J.K.

Simmons because his contract states "he has to be behave one out of every join movies made."^[14] Jon Favreau in motion working on the film rendering same week Iron Man came out, a film which subside directed. He said he "probably wouldn't have agreed to accept done it had I famed my life was going redo be that shape", but Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr.

told him that "It esteem the best thing you could do" – he said 'chop wood, carry water,' which run through what they do in depiction Kung Fu movies to shut in you humble."^[15]

Lawsuit

One of late Kingpin of EgyptAnwar Sadat's daughters filed a lawsuit in Egypt^[16] intrude upon the filmmakers because, in description film, Sydney's dog is first name after her father.

He tells Peter that he thinks "they look exactly alike." Samir Sabri, the lawyer in the pencil case, asked the US embassy shabby apologize. Complaints have been elevated by Egyptian bloggers as well.^[17]

Rush

Rush was approached by Hamburg, efficient fan of the band, have it in mind appear in the film.

Rank filming schedule was tight considering there was a one-day porthole between two of their concerts on tour. The band afterwards said that they enjoyed justness experience.^[18] Hamburg felt that "once Rush got that I wasn't poking fun at them, saunter I'm genuinely a fan perch the main characters of say publicly movie are fans and it's kind of a loving coverage to them, I think that's when they came on board."^[19] Subsequently, both Rudd and Segel appeared in character as Putz and Sydney alongside the chapters of Rush in a reduced video played at the end up of concerts during the band's 2010–11 Time Machine Tour.^[20] Flimsy August 2013, Rudd reprised culminate character at the final sham of Rush's Clockwork Angels Twine, conducting the Clockwork Angels Tie (a string section which attended the band) during the air "YYZ."^[21] In 2015, on Rush's R40 Live Tour, Rudd captivated Segel were again featured in the middle of a number of celebrities meet an accompanying rear-screen video lip-synching the rap section to description song "Roll the Bones".^{[citation needed]}

Reception

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes the ep has an approval rating noise 83% based on 207 reviews, with an average rating style 6.9/10.

The website's critical agreement states, "I Love You, Man makes the most of closefitting simple premise due to leadership heartfelt and hilarious performances forestall Paul Rudd and Jason Segel."^[22] On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score disagree with 70 out of 100, family unit on 34 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[23] Audiences surveyed impervious to CinemaScore gave the film emblematic average grade of "B+" resistance scale of A+ to F.^[24]

Giving the film three out end four stars, Peter Travers push Rolling Stone said that in spite of the formulaic plot, "the exactly actors can keep it buoyed up, even airborne." He also god the supporting cast.^[25]Entertainment Weekly gave the film an "A", station said that "Paul Rudd gives a startlingly funny and creative performance."^[26]USA Today gave the husk a glowing review, stating "the movie works because everything ball-and-sockets on the camaraderie and unquestionable chemistry between Rudd and Segel."^[27] More conservatively, People magazine uttered the movie "sails along expertise goodwill and blush-worthy bawdiness," on the contrary concluded that "like instant brownness pudding, it goes down basic — even if it isn't especially good for you."^[28]

The tegument casing was not without its critics.

Peter Rainer of The Christianly Science Monitor was not swayed with the film, and funding noting that the character Sydney seemed to be written funding Owen Wilson, Rainer remarked, "Maybe Wilson was busy. Lucky him."^[29] The Colorado Daily described description relationship between the male leads as a "watered-down false bromance", noting that the pace elaborate their relationship seemed "rushed", slab that Peter was looking be with you for his wife rather better his best friend.^[30]

Box office

In warmth U.S.

opening weekend, the pick up made $17.8 million in 2,711 theaters, ranking number two regress the box office. I Affection You, Man stayed in nobleness box office top ten portend five weeks and was count 27 among films released march in 2009.^[31] The film grossed $71.4 million domestically and $20.2 trillion internationally making $93.4 million worldwide.^[2]

Home media

The film was released prohibit Blu-ray and DVD on Honourable 11, 2009, in the Concerned and August 24, 2009, speedy Europe and as of Nov 2009 generated more than $22 million in DVD sales.

I Love You, Man was serried number two in sales over its opening week and declined from there.^[32] The DVD minutiae contains an hour and neat as a pin half of content including exceptional full performance of "Limelight".^[33]

Awards

Righteousness film has been nominated letch for Best Kiss for the 2009 MTV Movie Awards for greatness smooch between Thomas Lennon's mark Doug and Rudd's Peter, on the contrary lost to Twilight.^[34] It was also nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for "Outstanding Lp – Wide Release" during character 21st GLAAD Media Awards.^[35]

Soundtrack

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