This Is 40

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This Is 40

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2012

2h 14m

Romance

Comedy

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After many years of marriage, Pete (Paul Rudd) is the sole male in a household that includes his wife, Debbie (Leslie Mann), and two young daughters (Iris Apatow, Maude Apatow). As Pete struggles to keep his record label afloat, he and Debbie navigate a three-week course of sex and romance, career victories and financial hardships, aging parents and maturing children. They'll have to learn to forgive, forget and enjoy the rest of their lives -- before they kill each other.

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Critics Consensus

Judd Apatow definitely delivers funny and perceptive scenes in This is 40, even if they are buried in aimless self-indulgence.

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Candice Frederick

Reel Talk Online

It's like if Knocked Up was instead titled This is 35, and This is 40 were chapter two. It's just redundant.

Rated: C+

Sep 7, 2017

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J. Hoberman

Tablet

This Is 40 is intermittently funny, frequently embarrassing and, at 134 minutes, quite a bit too long.

May 5, 2016

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Donald Clarke

Irish Times

It is, in its quieter way, more pointlessly indulgent than The Matrix Revolutions.

Rated: 1/5

Feb 15, 2013

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Don Shanahan

Every Movie Has a Lesson

You either take it as 134 long minutes of sweet-hearted comedy with martial strife mixed in or vice versa, namely a two-hour-plus argument between Mommy and Daddy.

Rated: 4/5

Sep 4, 2023

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Danielle Solzman

Solzy at the Movies

Despite the funny moments in This Is 40, the running time and the parts that do not age well are not doing the film any favors as it turns ten years old.

Rated: 3/5

Dec 21, 2022

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Contains enough truth about marriages and families to outweigh the irritating details of the family’s financial situation and the film’s seemingly aimless structure.

Rated: 3/4

Sep 20, 2022

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Alex P

A proper modern classic IMO. Just so accurate and relatable. Paul Rudd eating that cupcake by the trash can as he's meant to be throwing them away lives in my mind forever. Love this film and the soundtrack is also fantastic.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/17/25

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Rebecca L

It's an acceptable film. It might be a decent background film. But why is it over 2 hours long? It felt like this film wanted to waste my time. Nothing much actually happens which tends to be the case in romance/comedy/drama type films with this one but with Paul Rudds character is straight up a terrible person and the child actors are so bad, I felt it was 2 hours spent relatively uncomfortable. I found the film didn't feel very realistic either, in the dialogue and the choices made during the film. Some dialogue felt unnatural and not like things these characters would have said if they resembled real people. If this weren't a drama or whatever it's meant to be, I don't think it'd be noticable but the entire film is talking, so when the dialogue isn't believable you lose a lot of integrity to the film. Overall not one I'd recommend but it's not absolutely terrible.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

09/28/25

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leez e

really cute, and replete with shrewd dialogue that reflects our current state of society in this era.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/13/25

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Audience Member

A movie that can’t decide if it’s a full on comedy or a dramedy. The music and production forces the latter but the raunchy dialogue yearns to be funnier than it really is. Still, the solid performances given by the cast recover this movie to be worth watching. But it spoiled the ending of Lost so a one star review from me anyway. 🖕

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

08/23/25

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Keira D

A horrible movie. Not realistic either. A stupid waste of my time and its not even a comedic movie.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

08/21/25

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Anh H.

I really enjoy this movie

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/06/25

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Synopsis

After many years of marriage, Pete (Paul Rudd) is the sole male in a household that includes his wife, Debbie (Leslie Mann), and two young daughters (Iris Apatow, Maude Apatow). As Pete struggles to keep his record label afloat, he and Debbie navigate a three-week course of sex and romance, career victories and financial hardships, aging parents and maturing children. They'll have to learn to forgive, forget and enjoy the rest of their lives -- before they kill each other.

Director: Judd Apatow
Producer: Judd Apatow, Barry Mendel, Clayton Townsend
Screenwriter: Judd Apatow
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: Apatow Company
Rating: R (Pervasive Language|Crude Humor|Sexual Content|Some Drug Material)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 21, 2012, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 23, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $67.5M
Runtime: 2h 14m
Sound Mix: SDDS, Dolby SRD, DTS

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