Film Excess - Free Ukraine - Stop Putin - End the war NOW!!: Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) - Stoller and Segel triumph with hilarious, multifaceted romcom

6/22/2018

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) - Stoller and Segel triumph with hilarious, multifaceted romcom

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+ Best Romcom of the Year + Best Debut Movie of the Year + Best Music Movie of the Year + Best Hawaii Movie of the Year + Shooting Star Actress of the Year: Mila Kunis

Jason Segel truly looks like a man who has been dumped on this eye-catching poster for Nicholas Stoller's Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Peter is dumped by his beautiful girlfriend Sarah Marshall and goes to Hawaii to recover, only to find that she is also there, enjoying the surf with her ghastly British musician lover, Aldous Snow.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall is written by writer/co-star Jason Segel (Dead Man on Campus (1998)) and directed by great English filmmaker Nicholas Stoller (Neighbors (2014)), whose debut it is. Segel is amazing for having written this film and also playing Pete so wonderfully, with such warmth, detail and unashamed identification. The only thing about Forgetting Sarah Marshall that makes me scratch my head some is Jack McBrayer (Conan (2013-16)), who is cast as one half of a strange honeymooning couple and just rubs me the wrong way.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall is a post-modern romcom gemstone, funny as hell and full of pain, heart and a really honest treatment of sex, friendship, loneliness and the love that grows in premarital relationships. With puppets! Lots of Hawaii flavor! And wonderful actors like Kristen Bell (CHIPS (2017)), Mila Kunis (That '70s Show (1998-06)), Bill Hader (The Disappearance fo Eleanor Rigby: Them (2014)), Liz Cackowski (Community (2009-10)), Jonah Hill (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)) and Paul Rudd (Reno 911! (2006-07)).

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Watch the very funny yoga scene from the movie here, which features Kristen Wiig (Ghostbusters (2016)) as a ridiculous yoga instructor

Cost: 30 mil. $
Box office: 105.1 mil. $
= Big hit
[Forgetting Sarah Marshall premiered 10 March (South by Southwest Film Festival, Austin, Texas) and runs 111 minutes. Shooting took place in O'ahu, including Honolulu, Hawaii, and in California, including Los Angeles, from April - July (2007). A lot of the film's dialog was improvised; according to Stoller, 30-40 % of the dialog in the finished film was improvised. The film opened #2, behind fellow new release The Forbidden Kingdom, to a 17.7 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent another 2 weeks in the top 5 (#4; #5) and grossed solid 63.1 mil. $ (60 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were the UK with 15.1 mil. $ (14.4 %) and Australia with 6.3 mil. $ (6 %). The film was snubbed for nominations for all major awards. It sold more than 1.7 mil. DVDs in North America, grossing in excess of 29.1 mil. $, which, if added into the theatrical gross, doesn't change the film's big hit status. Stoller returned with Get Him to the Greek (2010), a spin-off sequel to Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which focuses on Russell Brand's (Rock of Ages (2012)) rock-star character Aldous Snow, who need to get to the Greek Theatre in LA for a show. Segel returned in I Love You, Man (2009). Forgetting Sarah Marshall is certified fresh at 85 % with a 7/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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Donald Sutherland has passed away

Born in Canada, Sutherland battled polio as a child. His first credit was in Suspense (1963, TV-series) and his first film was The Castle of the Living Dead (1964). Later credits in his remarkable career include The Saint (1965-66), The Dirty Dozen (1967), M*A*S*H (1970), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Klute (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), 1900 (1976), Casanova (1976), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), Ordinary People (1980), A Dry White Season (1989), JFK (1991), Outbreak (1995), Fallen (1998), Virus (1999), Fierce People (2005), Pride & Prejudice (2005), Lord of War (2005), The Hunger Games (2012), The Undoing (2020, miniseries) and many more. He passed away at age 88. R.I.P.

Roger Corman has passed away

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Corman had a sprawling, intellectually hungry life as a youth and young man before arriving with his first film in 1955, Five Guns West. He would follow that with titles such as Apache Woman, It Conquered the World, Attack of the Crab Monsters, Teenage Cave Man, A Bucket of Blood, House of Usher, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Intruder, The Raven, The Terror, The Masque of Red Death, The Tomb of Ligeia, The Wild Angels, The Trip, Bloody Mama and many more. As a producer he was behind almost 500 films. Arguably among the most important filmmakers of the 20th century, Corman passed away at age 98. R.I.P.

William Friedkin has died

Born in Chicago, Friedkin accrued TV credits prior to his advance to the big screen as the director of Good TImes (1967), The Birthday Party (1968), The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968) and The Boys in the Band (1970) before his major breakthrough, The French Connection (1971), for which he won his only Oscar. He followed it up with the even bigger smash, The Exorcist (1973), arguably the best horror film of all time, for which he was Oscar-nominated. Later credits include Sorcerer (1977), Cruising (1980), To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), Rampage (1987), Rules of Engagement (2000), Killer Joe (2011) and The Devil and Father Amorth (2017, documentary). Friedkin passed away at age 87. R.I.P.

Louise Fletcher has passed away

Born in Alabama to deaf parents, Fletcher got her first credits in late-1950s TV-series.She took a 10 year-long sabbatical to devote her time to motherhood after the release of A Gathering of Eagles, but then came back and soon saw her career's most important part, as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), for which she won her sole Oscar. Later credits include Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), The Lucky Star (1980), Brainstorm (1983), Two Moon Junction (1988), Cruel Intentions (1999), A Perfect Man (2013) and many more. Fletcher passed away at age 88. R.I.P.

Jean-Luc Godard has passed away

Born in Paris, France, Godard lived much of his life in Switzerland. He wrote for French film criticism magazine Cahiers du Cinema and became foundational for the New French Wave that inspired new waves in scores of other countries across the world with his Breathless (1960). Later credits include A Woman Is A Woman (1961), Vivre Sa Vie (1962), Le Petit Soldat (1962), Contempt (1963), Alphaville (1965), Pierrot le Fou (1965), 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967), Weekend (1967), Every Man for Himself (1980), King Lear (1987), Century of Cinema (1995, documentary), Goodbye to Language (2014) and many more. Godard died of assisted suicide at age 91. R.I.P.

Wolfgang Petersen has died

James Caan has died

Caan was born the son of Jewish immigrants from Germany in New York. He got his start on TV in the early 1960s. His credits include El Dorado (1966), The Rain People (1969), Brian's Song (1971, TV movie), The Godfather (1972), - for which he earned his only Oscar nomination, - Slither (1973), The Gambler (1974), Funny Lady (1975), Rollerball (1975), Silent Movie (1976), Hide in Plain Sight (1980), - the only film he also directed, - Thief (1981), Misery (1990), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), Bottle Rocket (1996), Eraser (1996), Dogville (2003), Elf (2003), Las Vegas (2003-07), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and many more. Caan passed away at age 82. R.I.P.

Jean-Louis Trintignant has died

Born in Vaucluse, France, Trintignant's theatrical debut as an actor was in If All the Guys in the World... (1955). Later credits include ...And God Created Woman (1956), The Seven Deadly Sins (1961), Inferno (1964), A Man and A Woman (1966), My Love, My Love (1967), A Man to Kill (1967), The Great Silence (1968), Z (1969), The Assassination (1972), Three Colors: Red (1994), Amour (2012), Happy End (2017) and many more. He also wrote and directed two films in the 1970s. Trintignant passed away at age 91. R.I.P.

Ray Liotta has died

Adopted from an orphenage at a young age, Liotta got hooked on acting in high school. He had various TV credits in the late 1970s and early 80s, with his film debut in The Lonely Lady (1983). Later credits include Something Wild (1986), Field of Dreams (1989), Goodfellas (1990), Cop Land (1997), Hannibal (2001), Blow (2001), Narc (2002), John Q (2002), Identity (2003), Observe and Report (2009), Youth in Revolt (2009), The Details (2011), Killing THem Softly (2012), The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), Shades of Blue (2016-18), The Simpsons (2018, TV-series), Marriage Story (2019), The Many Saints of Newark (2021), Black Bird (2022, TV-series) and many more. Liotta passed away at age 67 in his sleep while on production in the Dominican Republic. R.I.P.

Philip Baker Hall has died

Born in Ohio, Hall didn't start acting until he was 30. His long list of credits include Zabriskie Point (1970), Miami Vice (1987, TV-series), Midnight Run (1988), Ghostbusters II (1989), Cheers (1993, TV-series), Hard Eight (1996), The Rock (1996), Air Force One (1997), Boogie Nights (1997), Seinfeld (1991-98), Rush Hour (1998), The Insider (1999), Magnolia (1999), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Bruce Almighty (2003), Dogville (2003), The Zodiac (2005), Zodiac (2007), Curb Your Enthusiasm (2004-09), Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011), Modern Family (2011-12) and many more. Hall passed away at age 90. R.I.P.

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