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Shallow Hal (2001)
IMDb Rating 6.0
Front Cover Actor Back Cover
Gwyneth Paltrow Rosemary Shanahan
Jack Black Hal
Jason Alexander Mauricio
Joe Viterelli Steve Shanahan
Rene Kirby Walt
Bruce McGill Reverend Larson
Tony Robbins Himself
Susan Ward Jill
Zen Gesner Ralph
Brooke Burns Katrina
Anthony Robbins Tony Robbins (as Tony Robbins)
Plot
Jack Black continues his march to stardom with this typical Farrelly brothers blend of broad comedy and a heartfelt message. Black is Hal Larsen, a shallow man rapidly approaching middle age whose superficiality can be attributed to his father's deathbed admonition to only date young, beautiful women. Hal and his best friend, Mauricio ( Jason Alexander ), have taken the advice to heart, but Hal finds all of his physically impressive girlfriends consistently lacking in other qualities that would make them ideal mates. When he bumps into self-help guru Tony Robbins (playing himself), the motivational entrepreneur is intrigued by Hal's predicament and hypnotizes him so that he'll only see the inner beauty of women. Hal is quickly smitten with Rosemary Shanahan ( Gwyneth Paltrow ), a blonde Peace Corps volunteer who's tenderhearted, funny, and intelligent. She is also gorgeous and meets Hal's basic criteria of outer perfection, but what he doesn't realize is that Robbins ' spell is working and he cannot see that Rosemary actually weights 300 pounds. When Mauricio is finally able to snap Hal out of his charmed state, Hal's in love with the inwardly perfect woman and must overcome his obsession with beauty. The script for Shallow Hal (2001) was developed when Peter Farrelly enjoyed the humorous letters written to a mutual friend by Sean Moynihan , a computer software executive who followed the filmmaker's advice to take up screenwriting. — Karl Williams
Movie Details
Genre Comedy; Drama; Romance
Director Bobby Farrelly; Peter Farrelly
Producer Bobby Farrelly; Peter Farrelly
Writer Sean Moynihan; Peter Farrelly; Bobby Farrelly
Studio 20th Century Fox
Country USA
Language English
Audience Rating PG-13
Running Time 114 mins
Movie Release Date 11/1/2001
Color Color
Personal Details
Format DVD
Seen It Yes
Index 39
Collection Status In Collection
Purchase Date 8/12/2002
Product Details
Region Region 1
Screen Ratio 1.85:1
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
UPC (Barcode) 024543040033
Chapters 28
Release Date 2004
Subtitles English; Spanish
Packaging Keep Case
Audio Tracks English Dolby Digital 5.1
Nr of Disks/Tapes 1
Extra Features
Color Closed-captioned Widescreen Dolby
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