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Along Came Polly |
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2004 | USA | PG-13 | cinesia : 11 |
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| CAST : Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Debra Messing, Alec Baldwin, Hank Azaria, Bryan Brown, Jsu Garcia ... |
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PRODUCER : Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg |
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COMPOSER : Theodore Shapiro, Mark Everett |
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DISTRIBUTOR : UIP - United International Pictures |
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RUNTIME : 1 hour 30 minutes |
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March 10, 2004 |
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 For the most cautious man on Earth, life is about to get interesting.
Stiller portrays risk-averse Reuben Feffer, whose best-laid plans for life and love careen wildly off track when his bride dumps him on their honeymoon for a muscle-bound scuba instructor. Stunned, humiliated and in the grip of acute indigestion, Reuben plans to play it safer than ever. But a chance encounter with an adventure-craving, childhood friend named Polly shoots him into a whirlwind of extreme sports, spicy foods, ferrets, salsa dancing and living in the moment. |
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  The idea of the scenario came to John Hamburg several months before he began to write any script. So, the movie isn’t the adaptation of a book but the thought of the director himself.
According to Hamburg, the meeting of Ben Stiller (Reuben Feffer) with Jennifer Aniston (Polly Prince) is the birth of a “great couple of cinema”. Indeed, the actress of Friends, who had already proved her talent for cinema, find here a new role for her, interpreting an original character.
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Dandy Lyle, Reuben’s best friend) plays here his first comic character. After have read the script, he immediately accepted the role that Hamburg was proposing for him.
Actors like Alec Baldwin or Bryan Brown, who usually plays first roles, accepted here to play second roles and “episodic characters”. |
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Caesar's review |
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A fun entertainment. |
Along came Polly is a fun movie, well suited for its purpose: entertaining the spectator. Ben Stiller, for once, doesn’t play a too “stupid” comedy, but a regular comedy. Aniston proves she can successfully act credibly in a feature movie.
As for the story it’s without any pretensions and at no time boring. |
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Pascal's review |
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July 24, 2005 |
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A diverting comedy |
Everything is done for laughing. Although the situation is horrible for the main character, it generates a lot of funny jokes, very pleasant for the public. The success of the movie is, in a great part, the fact of the actors, who brilliantly interpret their complex roles, because it’s always uneasy to make people laugh. For one time in the American cinema, the second roles are specially worked, with, I must remind, actors of quality like Alec Baldwin. I would like to give a special mention to Philip Seymour Hoffman, who, a bit like “Spike” in Notting Hill, adds to the movie a vulgar but hilarious character. As well, Bryan Brown is excellent.
In brief, more than the sympathetic comedy that we watch with pleasure, we can remark that the second roles greatly contribute to the good issue of the film, which is enough atypical to be noticed. |
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| FILMING LOCATION : Hawaii, Los Angeles, New York, USA |
| SOUND MIX : DTS / Dolby Digital / SDD | COLOR : Color |
| CINEMATOGRAPHY : Seamus McGarvey | CINEMATOGRAPHY : Cindy Evans |
| SET DECORATION : Don Diers |
| SPECIAL FX : Industrial Light & Magic | SPECIAL FX SUP. : Greg Curtis |
| PROD. BUDGET : $ 42'000'000 | STUNT COORDINATOR : Alex Daniels |
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