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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 53 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 14, 2009
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jack Black & Gwyneth Paltrow | |
Performer: | Jason Alexander, Zen Gesner, Susan Ward, Laura Kightlinger, Sascha Knopf, Joe Viterelli & Kyle Gass | |
Directed by | Peter Farrelly & Bobby Farrelly | |
Screenwriting by | Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly & Sean Moynihan | |
Composition by | Ivy | |
Produced by | Bradley Thomas, Charles B. Wessler, Peter Farrelly & Bobby Farrelly | |
Director of Photography: | Russell Carpenter |
Entertainment Reviews:
Obviously no one bothered to tell Bobby and Peter Farrelly to stick to what they do best in film making - insanity, stupidity and raunchy bathroom jokes.
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Behind The Lens
Rating: 7/10 --
In delivering their message, the Farrelly Brothers seem to have compromised their nothing-is-sacred comedy spirit, but at least their hearts are in the right place.
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Window to the Movies
...There isn't a smug frame in SHALLOW HAL, due mostly to Black's persuasive, wide-eyed idealism...
Sight and Sound
...It's cleverly done....Black makes a surprisingly goofy romantic lead and plays some enjoyably tender scenes with Paltrow...
Total Film
The film is not as funny as their best, but fascinates in the discomforting way it foregrounds the brothers' normally buried, facile moral dialectic.
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Time Out
[An] insulting new comedy from Bobby and Peter Farrelly.
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Combustible Celluloid
...[Featuring] a notably touching, sensitive performance from sylphlike Paltrow...
Entertainment Weekly
Product Description:
Directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly continue their string of hilarious oddball comedies with SHALLOW HAL. Hal (Jack Black of HIGH FIDELITY) is a "regular guy" who has no luck with women because he only wants to be with women who look like supermodels. Then self-help guru Tony Robbins hypnotizes Hal so that he can see a woman's inner beauty. When Hal meets Rosemary (Gwyneth Paltrow), a Peace Corps volunteer who is smart and funny, he thinks his dreams have come true. Others, like Hal's slimy friend Mauricio (Jason Alexander), see Rosie for what she is, a 300-pound woman, but Hal can only see the beauty on the inside, so to him she looks like Gwyneth Paltrow.
Black shines in his first starring role. His engagingly manic energy keeps the film in high gear. Paltrow skillfully plays Rosemary as an obese woman in a thin woman's body. The Farrelly brothers' comedies work so well because they mix off-the-wall humor with characters the audience identifies with and cares about. SHALLOW HAL is outrageous and funny, occasionally exceeding the bounds of good taste, but it's also a touching love story. Fans of Black's band, Tenacious D, will be happy to see bandmate Kyle Gass in a small role.
Black shines in his first starring role. His engagingly manic energy keeps the film in high gear. Paltrow skillfully plays Rosemary as an obese woman in a thin woman's body. The Farrelly brothers' comedies work so well because they mix off-the-wall humor with characters the audience identifies with and cares about. SHALLOW HAL is outrageous and funny, occasionally exceeding the bounds of good taste, but it's also a touching love story. Fans of Black's band, Tenacious D, will be happy to see bandmate Kyle Gass in a small role.
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- UPC: 024543040057
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