Forgetting Sarah Marshall
I Found This Funny: The Comedy World of Judd Apatow
July 10 - 14, 2015
Jilted by his actress girlfriend, lovelorn Peter flies to Hawaii to forget her, only to wind up in the same hotel as his ex and her new rock-star squeeze in writer-star Jason Segel’s riotous tour de force, produced by Apatow.
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Between her stints as Veronica Mars and Princess Anna of Arendelle, Kristen Bell gave rise to Sarah Marshall, star of TV’s Crime Scene: Scene of the Crime. When she ends her five-year relationship with Peter (Jason Segel), who writes “mood music” for her show, the shattered composer hopes a trip to Hawaii will help him to move on with his life. As luck would have it, he winds up in the same hotel as Sarah and her new rock-star squeeze, Aldous Snow (Russell Brand, in the role that put the Brit comic on the international map). Nicholas Stoller, a writer for producer Apatow’s cult series Undeclared, directs Segel’s riotous script, which culls from personal experience—including his lifelong dream to stage a Dracula-themed puppet musical. Mila Kunis radiates charisma as the hotel concierge who takes a fancy to Peter.
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