40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)
director: michael lehmann
cast: josh hartnett, shannyn sossamon, paulo costanzo, adam trese, emmanuelle vaugier, lorin heath, aaron trainor, glenn fitzgerald, monet mazur, christine chatelaine, keegan connor tracy, michael c. maronna, vinessa shaw, stefanie von pfetten, stanley Anderson
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Days and 40 Nights is a juvenile, 96 minute-long episode of Friends
with a flash of skin here and there. There is no level of reality to the proceedings
so there's no point in looking at this crap in terms of believability or with
an eye to "what must that be like". This is a world where a couple
of straight guys in their early twenties live together in a pleasingly decorated
apartment. This is a world where the main character's female co-workers are
mostly beautiful women in their early twenties who wear miniskirts and fishnet
stockings to the office. This is a world where everyone seems to care, and are
willing to wager on, whether or not a young man will be able to give up sex
for "40 days and 40 nights" (the length of Christian Lent). This is
a world where a couple of Lesbo-leaning women try to seduce their co-worker
because he's upsetting the yin/yang balance of the universe by resorting to
the feminine prerogative of abstinence. This is a world where another female
co-worker hikes up her skirt to photocopy her ass, then puts her phone number
on the results for the would be abstainer. This is a world that seems to be
cynically crafted by studio execs at Miramax to separate the 17 to 25 year-old
demographic from their filthy lucre. This is a movie equivalent of a McDonald's
Big Mac with cheese… extra cheese. Welcome to the bizarro-world. Bon appetite
twenty-somethings!—Tom Graney
$2.54 (or the price of a Big Mac)
© 2002 Hollywood Outsider™