Word: heigl
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Dates: during 2007-2007
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...summer comedy season opened with Judd Apatow's Knocked Up, starring Seth Rogen as a pudgy, mouthy slob who carelessly impregnates pretty Katherine Heigl. The movie is supposed to be the story of how they fall in love, and into shared responsibility. But the scene with the deepest communion of personalities is when the Rogen character gets high in a Vegas motel room with ... Heigl's brother...
...bandwagon started rolling quietly enough: an early profile in TIME about its barely known star, very enthusiastic reviews, and an opening box office weekend that outperformed analysts' estimates. Knocked Up, a comedy about a young career woman (Katherine Heigl) who finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand with a chubby stoner (Seth Rogen), finished its first three days at $30.7 million - which happened to be, almost exactly, the movie's very modest budget. That number was enough to make the film a sturdy second last weekend to the mega-threequel Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, which...
...Take the Heigl character, Alison. In her mid-20s, she is smart, pretty and nice. She has a good job, that's getting better, at the E! Channel. And where does this independent achiever live? Why, in the home of her married sister Debbie (Leslie Mann), with Debbie's husband Pete (Paul Rudd) and their two kids. Apatow imagines that, in Los Angeles 2007, there's some time-warp housing-shortage like the one in World War II-era Washington, D.C. - the premise for the 1943 comedy The More the Merrier...
...Unlike some of this movie's skeptics, I don't mind Rogen. He has sweet eyes, a voice too deep and rich for his age and, in his one nude scene (Heigl doesn't get one, as Mr. Skin will tell you, except for a gynecological closeup late in the film) a cute tush. But by Hollywood beauty standards, he's so on the lower side of ordinary, he almost doesn't belong in movies. That's one good thing about Apatow: he subverts the medium's inherent aesthetic fascism - survival of the cutest - and puts funny people center-screen...
...Alison (Katherine Heigl) and her sister Debbie (Leslie Mann) are out clubbing, celebrating the former's promotion from stage manager on one of those Inside Hollywood TV shows to an on-air job. There they meet the overweight, unemployed Ben (Seth Rogin). She's giddy with happiness (and a certain amount of booze) and they retire to her place - it's the guest house at her sister's nice middle-class home - and have unsafe and unsatisfactory sex. He's hopeful of a relationship; she's hopeful of never seeing him again. Many distressing pregnancy tests later, they both have...