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Nicholas
Stoller's
FORGETTING
SARAH
MARSHALL
is a
romantic
disaster
comedy
produced
by
the
same
team
that
made
such
hits
as
THE
40-YEAR-OLD
VIRGIN
and
KNOCKED
UP,
headed
by
writer,
director,
and
producer
Judd
Apatow.
When
he
gets
suddenly
and
unceremoniously
dumped
by
his
longtime
girlfriend,
television
star
Sarah
Marshall
(VERONICA
MARS
lead
Kristen
Bell),
composer
Peter
Bretter
(FREAKS
AND
GEEKS
alum
Jason
Segel)
is
devastated.
Miserably
depressed,
he
seeks
solace
in
tawdry
one-night
stands,
but
he
is
desperate
to
win
Sarah
back.
On
the
advice
of
his
stepbrother,
Brian
(SATURDAY
NIGHT
LIVE's
Bill
Hader),
Peter
heads
off
to
Hawaii
for
a
much-needed
vacation,
but
he
gets
even
more
freaked
out
when
he
discovers
that
Sarah
and
her
new
beau,
wild
and
wacky
British
singing
sensation
Aldous
Snow
(comedian
Russell
Brand),
are
staying
there
as
well.
Mired
in
sadness,
Peter
is
befriended
by
hotel
employee
Rachel
Jansen
(THAT
'70S
SHOW's
Mila
Kunis),
who
encourages
him
to
get
back
his
life
and
pursue
his
own
dreams,
which
include
staging
a
Dracula
musical
with
puppets.
But
Peter
is
blinded
by
his
desire
for
Sarah
even
as
he
grows
closer
to
Rachel
and
starts
hanging
out
with
some
of
the
hotel's
odder
personalities,
including
Chuck
(Paul
Rudd),
a
drug-addled
surf
instructor,
and
Matthew
(SUPERBAD's
Jonah
Hill),
a
drug-dealing
restaurant
worker
obsessed
with
Snow.
Segel,
who
gets
fully
naked
several
times
in
the
film,
wrote
the
screenplay,
a
sharp
blend
of
comedy
and
drama,
and
is
solid
in
his
first
major
starring
role.
Stoller,
making
his
feature-film
directorial
debut,
gets
the
most
out
of
his
diverse
cast
and
beautiful
setting,
especially
Jack
McBrayer
and
Maria
Thayer
as a
newlywed
couple
having
some
bizarre
sexual
problems,
and
Billy
Baldwin
as
Sarah's
costar
in
the
television
show
CRIME
SCENE:
SCENE
OF
THE
CRIME.
FORGETTING
SARAH
MARSHALL
is
an
outrageously
funny
yet
touchingly
sweet
movie.
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