This Is 40 (2012) (original) (raw)

Comedy updating the lives of Pete and Debbie from 'Knocked Up' (2007). Record label owner Pete and his shop-owning wife Debbie are now living a seemingly contented life in the suburbs with their two young daughters, Sadie and Charlotte. But the growing financial strain on Pete's business, combined with Debbie's increasing dread of her upcoming 40th birthday, soon causes the pair - actually just Debbie - to question their current lifestyle choices.

Director: Judd Apatow
Writer: Judd Apatow
Starring: Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, John Lithgow, Megan Fox, Maude Apatow, Iris Apatow
Producer: Judd Apatow

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Review by Brian Orndorf, December 19, 2012

8 / 10

As everyone knows by now, when Judd Apatow decides to make a movie, it�s never a tidy, easy event, but an immense outpouring of sensitivities and improvisations. The director is more of a wrangler, picking the best moments of imagination and vulnerability to shape the viewing experience, leaving the end product formless yet filled with enormous laughs and a manageable level of heartache. A spin-off of his 2007 hit, �Knocked Up,� Apatow returns to the story of Pete and Debbie, hoping to expand on the claustrophobia of their marriage as it slams into the reality of the aging process. The results ...read more...

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