ALONG CAME POLLY

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

Contents

Cast

Plot

Film Culture

Trivia

Reaction

Quotes

References

See also

External links

Cast

★ Ben Stiller ... as Reuben Feffer

★ Jennifer Aniston ... as Polly Prince

★ Philip Seymour Hoffman ... as Sandy Lyle

★ Debra Messing ... as Lisa Kramer

★ Alec Baldwin ... as Stan Indursky

★ Hank Azaria ... as Claude

★ Bryan Brown ... as Leland Van Lew

★ Jsu Garcia ... as Javier

★ Michele Lee ... as Vivian Feffer

★ Bob Dishy ... as Irving Feffer

★ Masi Oka... as Wonsuk

Plot

An insurance actuary who's afraid of risk (Stiller) makes a living analyzing risk for insurance purposes, but finds his wife (Messing) cheating on him on their honeymoon with a French streaker scuba instructor (Azaria). Distraught, he gets involved in a risky romance with an extroverted former classmate (Aniston), only to find his wife desperate to rekindle their marriage.

Film Culture

This film falls within a cross-genre film type from the late 1990s and early 2000s in which grooms are saved, or nearly saved, from distasteful marriage.^[1]

Trivia

★ This film contains the leads from two popular NBC sitcoms: Jennifer Aniston (''Friends'') and Debra Messing (''Will & Grace''). They appear together when Lisa (Debra Messing) tries to win back Reuben (Ben Stiller) at his new apartment when he comes home from a date with Polly (Jennifer Aniston), but they are still not seen in the same shot at the same time.

★ The scene where Ben and Irving play basketball when Irving's hairy chest slides on Ben would be later spoofed in the 2006 movie, ''Date Movie''.

★ The poster in Reuben's forgotten child star best friend's apartment from his movie ''Crocodile Tears'' is similar in appearance to that of the movie ''The Breakfast Club''. The opening song from that movie, Don't You (Forget About Me) by Simple Minds, can be heard in the background.

★ The role of ''Sandy Lyle'' was originally offered to Jack Black, who turned it down because of filming delays on his film .

★ At one point, Jennifer Aniston was filming this movie, ''Bruce Almighty'', and ''Friends'' at the same time. [1]

★ Ben Stiller said on a talk show that the ferret actually bit him a couple of times. [2]

★ Stiller played Aniston's boyfriend in NBC's ''Friends'' in the third season's "The One With The Screamer". He played Rachel's boyfriend who screams at Ross and complete strangers after Rachel leaves the room.

★ The scene where Polly finds that she has been "Sussed out" by Reuben's program by weighing out the advantages and disadvantages of each of Reuben's love interests has similarities to an episode of NBC's "Friends" entitled "The One With the List",where Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) finds a similar list, weighing the advantages and disadvantages of her and Julie (Ross' other love interest).

★ In the scene where Ben Stiller's character confesses his love to Aniston's there are several posters for the band Box Car Racer in the background.

★ In the scenes of the play, Masi Oka can be seen. He plays the role as Wonsuk

Reaction

Many critics disliked ''Along Came Polly'', blaming the forced chemistry and formulaic scenes. The movie earned the "Rotten" 26% on Rotten Tomatoes. [3] The film actually made back double its budget, making $87 million in total. [4]

Quotes

'Claude' : (''attempting to explain his love for Reuben’s wife after Reuben walked in on them'') It's like the story of the hippo.

'Reuben' : I'm not familiar with that story.

'Claude' : The hippopotamus, he is not one going, "Cool beans. I am a hippo." No way, Jose. So he try to paint the stripe on himself to be like the zebra, but he fool no one. Then he try to put the spot on his skin to be like the leopard, but everyone know he is a hippo. So, at certain point, he look himself in the mirror and he just say, "Hey. I am a hippopotamus and there is nothing I can do about it." And, as soon as he accepts this, he live life happy. Happy as a hippo. You understand?

'Reuben' : (''Reuben looks at him with a look of hatred for a few seconds before he runs toward him'') I’m gonna kill you!

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'Sandy' : "Let it rain, old school, rain man, rain dance, ice man!" Reuben and Sandy playing basketball

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'Man in Bathroom Stall' : "Occupied. I'm gonna be here all night, dude."

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'Sandy' : "Did you two douche bags bring your A game?"

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'Irving Feffer' : (''Irving Feffer to Sandy'') "Its not about what happened in the past, though what you think might happen in the future. It's about the ride, for christ sake. There is no point going all this crap, if you are not gonna enjoy the ride... And you know what, when you least expect it, something great might come along. Something better than you even planned for."

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'Sandy' : "Dude, I just sharted."

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'Stan Indurski' (Reuben's Boss) : "Mazal Mazal, Good Things."

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'Claude' (Meeting Reuben and Lisa on the beach): Hello I'm Scuba Claude. This is my boat.
'Lisa'(Distracted at Claude) : It's a very big boat.

References

1. Adam Sternbergh, ''The Devil Wears Pearls: In recent movies, grooms across America flee their frigid fiancees'', Slate, January 28, 2004

See also

★ Fictional actuaries

External links

★ Official website

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