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Judd Apatow, who directed THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN and KNOCKED UP, has also produced a string of comedy hits like SUPERBAD and many of Will Ferrell’s movies. Now he brings us via the producer’s chair FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL, a funny and sweet romantic comedy that balances between well observed character moments and raunchy humor. Directed by first-time helmer Nicholas Stoller and written by its star Jason Segel, the film takes a simple break-up scenario and fills it with one winning joke after another.

Peter Bretter (Segel, KNOCKED UP) is a composer, working on a bad TV cop show. The star of that show is Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell, TV’s HEROES), who has been Peter’s girlfriend for the past five years. He’s a frumpish loser who barely has the motivation to get off the couch during the day if he doesn’t have to. Sarah comes home from filming and drops the bomb that she has fallen for someone else. That someone else turns out to be rock ‘n roller lothario Aldous Snow (Russell Brand, PENELOPE). Peter falls into a funk and his stepbrother Brian (Bill Hader, TV’s SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE) encourages him to take a vacation. So Peter packs his bags and heads off to Hawai’i, where who does he run into but Sarah with her new guy. This only sinks Peter deeper into fits of sobbing until he begins to develop a friendship with the kind hotel receptionist Rachel Jansen (Mila Kunis, TV’s THAT 70′S SHOW).

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