Along Came Polly

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Along Came Polly
Directed by John Hamburg
Produced by Danny DeVito
Michael Shamberg
Stacey Sher
Written by John Hamburg
Starring Ben Stiller
Jennifer Aniston
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Debra Messing
Hank Azaria
Bryan Brown
Alec Baldwin
Music by Theodore Shapiro
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) January 16, 2004
Running time 90 minutes
Language English
Budget $42,000,000

Along Came Polly is a 2004 American romantic comedy film written and directed by John Hamburg.

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Plot

Reuben Feffer (Stiller) is a friendly insurance actuary who, since his job involves analyzing risk for insurance purposes, likes living life in complete safety and free from any unnecessary risk. As the film opens, he is celebrating his wedding to Lisa Kramer (Messing), but promptly catches her making love on their honeymoon with a French scuba instructor (Azaria). When he returns he meets Polly Prince, an extroverted former classmate (Aniston), at an art gallery he was asked to by best friend Sandy (Hoffman). Sandy appeared in a film when he was a teenager and now thinks himself a big star. Sandy asks Reuben to leave because he "sharted", they say goodbye to Polly and the next day Reuben tells Sandy he's going to move on and ask Polly on a date. The two engage in a match against two other men in which Sandy tells Reuben that Polly would not be right for him because she has a tattoo and is nothing like when they were in 7th grade. At the end of the night he calls Polly but hangs up, she calls back and before he can stop it, his answering machine announces his name. Reuben then detours near Polly's apartment where he catches her coming home, and pretending he didn't see her, he then lies that his answering machine has been malfunctioning and calling people on its own.

They arrange a dinner for catching up which Polly keeps rearranging, and when they finally have dinner at an Indian restaurant, Reuben suffers from IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) and starts to sweat heavily. Unable to use the restaurant's bathroom as it's busy, he uses the toilet at Polly's house but there is no toilet tissue which causes him a dilemma. He proceeds to use a towel on the rack but blocks the loo and tries to unblock the toilet with Polly's new expensive loofa but the toilet overspills and he is caught by Polly. He leaves embarrassed as he had used the towel hand-embroidered by Polly's grandmother. During his romance with Polly she introduces him to new things such as salsa dancing which he later takes lessons in. Meanwhile he tries to talk to Lew who performs life threatening stunts while in conversations with Reuben, making it harder for him to insure Lew. Sandy is also busy making a documentary about his life as a star and is performing in a stage version of Jesus Christ Superstar but is cast as Judas and annoys everyone at the theatre by being demanding and trying to steal the limelight. Everyone tells Reuben he should get back with Lisa and finds his wife desperate to rekindle their marriage. Reuben doesn't want to get back together with his wife and wishes to stay with Polly. He then enters her and his wife into the Risk Master, a computer insurance program which measures risk in percentages when entered with people's advantages and disadvantages, then decides the best choice on these results. The machine tells him Polly is the best choice for him even though he embarrassed himself many times due to her extremely different lifestyle. In the meantime, Reuben is trying to insure Lew (Brown), a businessman who enjoys high-risk sports.

Lew invites Reuben on a boat trip who takes Polly along, and during a storm Polly knocks into Reuben's computer, turning on the Risk Master. She sees he listed all her flaws and compared her to his wife. In the bathroom Reuben is preparing to ask her to move in with him but when she confronts him she says they're having a fling, Reuben explains that everyone moves and settles down and if her plan is that different from his. She responds saying she doesn't have a plan and that she's been living her life while Reuben is worried about everything, and he blames that his mother made him afraid of everything at which Polly angrily reveals that her dad had a second family with a wife and kids. She then breaks up with him and says he should get back with Lisa.

Reuben moves into his new house and talks to Lisa who wants to see him at Sandy's play. A friend of Polly's reveals she's leaving town but doesn't know why, but just then Lisa comes over to Reuben and he's forced to introduce her to him. As they sit down to watch the play he gets a call from his boss to evaluate Lew's case, and Sandy announces to the audience that he will be playing the lead of the play as well as his own part, which causes a fight to break out the lead and Sandy, as despite Sandy only appearing in one film when he was young he has become convinced that he is a star. Reuben's dad breaks his silence from the start of the film who then tells Sandy to let go and that it doesn't matter what happened in the past or the future, it's about enjoying the ride and something great will come, something unplanned for. This inspires Reuben and he tells Lisa he won't be getting back with her because she's a heartless bitch for cheating on him. He then learns from Sandy that the documentary he was making was a fake, so Reuben sends Sandy to his big meeting regarding Lew's case in his place so he can rush to catch Polly before she leaves town. He sees her leaving but can't keep up, and wanders back to her apartment where he finds her pet ferret Rodolfo, whose lead got caught in the door. Polly then comes round the corner shouting out for Rodolfo, sees Reuben and walks away with Rodolfo in tow. He apologizes and says she was risky but worth it. Back at Lew's insurance case, Sandy is recognized by the businessmen for his part in the old movie after he delivers Reuben's presentation, the board is impressed and Lew is granted his insurance despite his love for dangerous sports. Reuben being unable to convince Polly he gets some nuts from a vendor and makes them dirty by dropping them on the floor and eats them to proves he can take risks and says if Polly leaves she'll never know what they could have had. They reconcile and we see in the future Reuben and Polly on the beach where he had his honeymoon. Claude runs into them, they explain they're not married but in the future maybe and point Lew out, who's just a small distance off. Reuben thanks Claude for everything and then he and Polly go off into the sea.

Critical reception

Many critics disliked Along Came Polly, blaming the forced chemistry and formulaic scenes. The movie earned a "Rotten" 27% on Rotten Tomatoes.[1] The film actually made back more than double its budget, making it a veritable success $87 million in total. [2]

Cast

References

  1. ^ "Along Came Polly (2004)".
  2. ^ Along Came Polly (2004) - Box office / business

See also

External links


Preceded by
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King		 Box office number-one films of 2004 (USA)
January 18, 2004		 Succeeded by
The Butterfly Effect
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