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This Is 40

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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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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 Full Review J. Hoberman Tablet This Is 40 is intermittently funny, frequently embarrassing and, at 134 minutes, quite a bit too long. May 5, 2016 Full Review Donald Clarke Irish Times It is, in its quieter way, more pointlessly indulgent than The Matrix Revolutions. Rated: 1/5 Feb 15, 2013 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews

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James E A cute a fun movie with sweet messages. There are a few too many serious moments for what should be a comedy, making both the comedy and the serious moments slightly less impactful. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/11/25 Full Review Alice W We love this film and watch it all the time! I’m so surprised by all the poor reviews. Maybe you have to be married for 20 years with kids to get it, so many little things that ring true. And I’d watch Paul Rudd in anything, always amazing. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/10/25 Full Review Kevin C This movie is bad. The characters are all unlikeable. There are no good jokes. From the dialogue I get the impression that they filmed the first draft of the script. The actors could have improvised all of their lines and it would have been a better movie. I can't get past how flat the dialogue is because the movie is basically all dialogue. There is no plot. Nothing happens in the movie. The characters just talk in an uninteresting way about nothing. Maybe that was the point. Watching this movie was supposed to make you feel like you were experiencing turning 40 and that's it. Just living through an unremarkable day in the life of any person at about 40 years old. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/08/25 Full Review D'vante J I couldn’t finish this movie, it’s so unwatchable. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/25 Full Review Cooper B Everyone is such an asshole, Pete and Debbie are the most insufferable people I've ever seen, I'm not even finished with the movie and I hate all of it, the only likeable characters are the kids and desi, some of it is funny but the rest is just rich assholes be annoying and rude to everyone around them, overall sucks 🤮 Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/18/25 Full Review Jay S An awful movie about awful, spoiled, horrible people behaving horribly to each other and teaching their children to do the same. The only likable character is an authentically superficial escort. What was Judd Apatow thinking? Why write a script with only despicable characters? Was he trying to influence people to hate L.A.? If so, then it's a great movie. Otherwise it is a monumentally bad one. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/30/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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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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