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The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Judd Apatow
Produced by
Judd Apatow
Clayton Townsend
Shauna Robertson
Written by
Judd Apatow
Steve Carell
Starring
Steve Carell
Catherine Keener
Paul Rudd
Romany Malco
Seth Rogen
Elizabeth Banks
Leslie Mann
Jane Lynch
Music by
Lyle Workman
Cinematography
Jack Green
Edited by
Brent White
Production
company
Apatow Productions
Distributed by
Universal Pictures
Release date
August 11, 2005 (2005-08-11) (Los Angeles premiere)
August 19, 2005 (2005-08-19) (United States)
Running time
116 minutes
133 minutes (unrated version)
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$26 million[1]
Box office
$177.4 million[1]
The 40-Year-Old Virgin is a 2005 American sex comedy film about a middle-aged man and his journey to have sex. It was produced and directed by Judd Apatow, starring Steve Carell, and written by Apatow and Carell, although it features a great deal of improvised dialogue.[2] The film was released theatrically in North America on August 19, 2005, and was released on region 1 DVD on December 13, 2005.[3]
It was the directorial debut of Judd Apatow, who has since directed successful films such as Knocked Up, Funny People, This Is 40 and Trainwreck.[4]
Contents
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Reception
4.1 Critical response
4.2 Box office
4.3 Accolades
4.4 Home media
4.5 Disclaimer
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
Plot[edit]
Andy Stitzer is a 40-year-old virgin who lives alone, his apartment filled with his collection of action figures and video games. At a poker game with his co-workers David, Cal, Mooj and Jay, when conversation turns to past sexual exploits, they learn that Andy is still a virgin, and resolve to help him lose his virginity.
The men give Andy various and sometimes contradictory pieces of advice, both on his appearance and how to interact with women. Cal advises Andy to simply "ask questions", which he practices on bookstore clerk Beth, who quickly becomes intrigued by him. David gives Andy his porn collection, encouraging him to masturbate. Mooj stresses to Andy the importance of love in a relationship.
Andy begins to socialize and form friendships with his co-workers. David, after running into his ex-girlfriend Amy, has an emotional breakdown at work. Store manager Paula promotes Andy to fill in for him.
Jay attempts to quicken the process by tricking Andy into meeting a prostitute. When Andy discovers the hooker is a male transvestite, he insists that his friends stop trying to help him. Andy lands a date with Trish Piedmont, a woman he met on the sales floor.
During Andy and Trish's first date, as they are about to have sex, they are interrupted by Trish's teenage daughter Marla. Trish suggests that they postpone having sex, and Andy enthusiastically agrees.
Andy's friends begin to encounter the consequences of their lifestyles. David, obsessed with Amy, takes a vow of celibacy. Jay, who previously boasted of his promiscuity, gets into an argument with a customer after his girlfriend breaks up with him over his infidelity. Jay concedes to Andy that sex can ruin a relationship.
Andy and Trish's relationship grows. Trish encourages Andy's dream of starting a business, suggesting they fund it by selling his collectibles. Andy takes Marla to a group session at a sexual health clinic, where she reveals she is a virgin. Andy, trying to defend her against derision, admits that he is also a virgin but is disbelieved and ridiculed. Marla later says that she knows Andy is a virgin, but agrees to let him tell Trish himself.
On the couple's twentieth date, the limit they agreed for their abstinence, Andy is still resistant, which upsets Trish. Trish demands he explain his reticence, and Andy accuses her of trying to change him against his will. He leaves for a nightclub where he meets his friends, gets drunk and praises them for encouraging him to have sex. Andy runs into Beth and they soon leave for her apartment. Marla convinces Trish to make up with Andy. By this time, Andy has sobered up and is having second thoughts. His friends arrive and encourage him to go back to Trish.
Andy returns to his apartment, where he finds Trish waiting for him. He attempts to apologize, but Trish, having found various suspicious items in his apartment, is now afraid that Andy may be some sort of sexual deviant. Andy tries to defend himself and declares his love for her, but she leaves in alarm and disgust. Andy chases after her on his bike, but collides with her car and flies through the side of a truck. Trish rushes to his side, and Andy confides that he is a virgin as explanation for his behavior. Trish is surprised but relieved, and they kiss.
Later, Andy and Trish are married in a lavish ceremony with everyone in attendance, with a sidelong mention that Andy's action figures sold for over half a million dollars. Afterwards, they consummate the marriage, the aftermath of which transitions into a musical scene where the characters sing and dance to "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In".
Cast[edit]
Steve Carell as Andy Stitzer
Catherine Keener as Trish Piedmont
Paul Rudd as David
Romany Malco as Jay
Seth Rogen as Cal
Jane Lynch as Paula
Elizabeth Banks as Beth
Leslie Mann as Nicky
Kat Dennings as Marla Piedmont
Chelsea Smith as Julia Piedmont
Gerry Bednob as Mooj
Jordan Masterson as Mark
Shelley Malil as Haziz
Jonah Hill as eBay Customer
Marisa Guterman as Girl with Braces
Marika Dominczyk as Bernadette
Mindy Kaling as Amy
Mo Collins as Gina
Kimberly Page as Carol
Laura Bottrell as Girl with Blue Bra
Stormy Daniels as Herself
Loudon Wainwright III as Priest
Cedric Yarbrough as Health Clinic Dad #1
David Koechner as Health Clinic Dad #2
Jeff Kahn as Health Clinic Dad #3
Kevin Hart as Smart Tech Customer
Rose Abdoo as Mother at Restaurant
Jazzmun as transvestite prostitute
Nancy Carell as Health Clinic Counselor
Nick Lashaway as Boy at Health Clinic
Wyatt Smith as Boy at Wedding (Uncredited)
Ann Christine as Kim (Uncredited)
Jenna Fischer as Woman #1 (Uncredited)
Phyllis Smith as Mrs. Stitzer (Uncredited)
Production[edit]
Production on the film was nearly halted by Universal Pictures after five days of filming, allegedly due to concerns that the physical appearance of Carell's character resembled that of a serial killer.[5] Production was started on January 17, 2005, and wrapped on April 1, 2005.[citation needed]
The production used over a million feet of film, a milestone reached on the last day of filming and recognized with free champagne by Technicolor.[6] Using the conversion of 90 feet of film per minute, this means that the shooting ratio for the film is 96:1 (96 feet shot for each foot used in the release after editing) for the theatrical (84:1 for the unrated version).
Reception[edit]
Critical response[edit]
On Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, the film has an approval rating of 85% based on 184 reviews (156 fresh and 28 rotten) and an average rating of 7.2/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Steve Carell's first star turn scores big with a tender treatment of its titular underdog, using raunchy but realistically funny comedy to connect with adult audiences."[7] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 73 out of 100 based on 35 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[8]
Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A-" on an A+ to F scale.[9] Rotten Tomatoes declared it the "Best Reviewed Comedy of 2005."[10]
Ebert and Roeper gave the film a "two thumbs up" rating. Roger Ebert said, "I was surprised by how funny, how sweet, and how wise the movie really is" and "the more you think about it, the better The 40-Year-Old Virgin gets."[11] The pair gave minor criticisms, with Ebert describing "the way she (Catherine Keener as 'Trish') empathizes with Andy" as "almost too sweet to be funny" and Richard Roeper saying that the film was too long, and at times extremely frustrating.[11] Roeper later chose the film as the tenth best of 2005.[12]
Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the movie an A-, saying that Carell "plays him [Andy] in the funniest and most surprising way possible: as a credible human being." Manohla Dargis of The New York Times called the film a "charmingly bent comedy," noting that Carell conveys a "sheer likability" and a "range as an actor" that was "crucial to making this film work as well as it does."[13]
The film was criticized by Harry Forbes of Catholic News Service for promoting "the false premise that there's something intrinsically wrong with an unmarried man being sexually inexperienced,"[14] and by conservative columnist Cal Thomas for not being a "tribute to self control or purity."[15]
In December 2005, the film was chosen by the American Film Institute as one of the ten best movies of the year, the only comedy film to be so recognized (though the comedy-drama The Squid and the Whale was also chosen). The film was also ranked No. 30 on Bravo's 100 Funniest Movies.
Box office[edit]
The film was a summer hit, and opened at No. 1 at the box office, grossing $21,422,815 during its opening weekend, and stayed at No. 1 the following weekend. The film grossed a total of $109,449,237 at the domestic market, and $67,929,408 overseas, for a total of $177,378,645. The film was 25th in global gross, and 19th in the United States that year.[1] The film was released in the United Kingdom on September 2, 2005, and topped the country's box office that weekend.[16]
Accolades[edit]
Association
Accolade
Recipient
Results
American Film Institute Awards Movie of the Year
Won
ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards Top Box Office Films Lyle Workman Won
Award Circuit Community Awards Best Original Screenplay Judd Apatow
Steve Carell Nominated
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards Best Supporting Actress Catherine Keener Won
Critics Choice Awards Best Comedy Movie
Won
Gold Derby Awards Best Original Screenplay Judd Apatow
Steve Carell Nominated
Golden Schmoes Awards Best Comedy of the Year
Won
Best Surprise of the Year
Won
Best Breakthrough Performance of the Year Steve Carell Won
Best Line of the Year ("You know how I know you're gay?")
Won
Best Screenplay of the Year Judd Apatow
Steve Carell Nominated
Favorite Movie Poster of the Year
Nominated
Most Memorable Scene in a Movie (Chest waxing scene)
Nominated
International Online Cinema Awards Best Original Screenplay Judd Apatow
Steve Carell Nominated
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Best Supporting Actress Catherine Keener Won
MTV Movie Awards Best Movie
Nominated
Best Breakthrough Performance Romany Malco Nominated
Best Male Performance Steve Carell Nominated
Best Comedic Performance Won
Best On-Screen Team Steve Carell
Paul Rudd
Seth Rogen
Romany Malco Nominated
National Society of Film Critics Awards Best Supporting Actress Catherine Keener Nominated
New York Film Critics Circle Awards Best Supporting Actress Nominated
Online Film & Television Association Awards Best First Feature Judd Apatow Nominated
Best Breakthrough Performance - Male Steve Carell Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Judd Apatow
Steve Carell Nominated
Online Film Critics Society Awards Best Breakthrough Filmmaker Judd Apatow Nominated
St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards Best Animated, Musical, or Comedy Film
Nominated
The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards Most Overrated Film
Nominated
Writers Guild Awards Best Original Screenplay Judd Apatow
Steve Carell Nominated
Home media[edit]
On home video the film was released with an additional 17 minutes under the banner "unrated".[17] For the 100th Anniversary of Universal the theatrical edition was released on Blu-ray. This version also had a similar banner of "unrated".
Disclaimer[edit]
The American Humane Association withheld its "no animals were harmed..." disclaimer due to the accidental deaths of several tropical fish used in the film.[18]
See also[edit]
Film in the United States portal
Comedy portal
2000s portal
Naughty @ 40 (2011), a remake from Bollywood
The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It (2010), a direct-to-DVD parody of this and several other Judd Apatow films
Leisure Suit Larry
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c "The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)". Box Office Mojo.
Jump up ^ Commentary track for the unrated DVD version of the film.
Jump up ^ DVD details for The 40-Year-Old Virgin from IMDb
Jump up ^ "Judd Apatow." Bio. A&E Television Networks, 2015. Web. 15 Aug. 2015.
Jump up ^ Steve Carell: Universal Pulled The Plug On “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” - CONAN on TBS. 12 January 2016 – via YouTube.
Jump up ^ Jeff Otto (16 August 2005). "Interview: Steve Carrell and Paul Rudd". IGN.
Jump up ^ "The 40-Year-Old Virgin". Rotten Tomatoes.
Jump up ^ "The 40-Year-Old Virgin Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2014-03-19.
Jump up ^ "CinemaScore". cinemascore.com. [permanent dead link]
Jump up ^ Best Reviewed Comedy of 2005 Archived 2006-07-20 at the Wayback Machine. from Rotten Tomatoes
^ Jump up to: a b review on Ebert & Roeper Archived 2006-01-06 at the Wayback Machine. in MP3 format
Jump up ^ Ebert & Roeper, The Best of 2005 Archived 2006-01-14 at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ Manohla Dargis (August 19, 2005). "Losing His Innocence, Not a Minute Too Soon". The New York Times.
Jump up ^ "Catholic News Service". Archived from the original on 2009-10-05.
Jump up ^ "When gas was cheap and people were valuable" by Cal Thomas.
Jump up ^ "Weekend box office 2nd September 2005 - 4th September 2005". www.25thframe.co.uk. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
Jump up ^ "The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Unrated) [Blu-ray]: Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, Romany Malco, Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Leslie Mann, Jane Lynch, Kat Dennings, Judd Apatow: Movies & TV". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2014-03-19.
Jump up ^ "The 40-Year-Old Virgin-Rating:Monitored, unacceptable". American Humane Association.
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