After a brutal break-up, a young man vows to stay celibate during the forty days of Lent, but finds the girl of his dreams and is unable to do anything about it.After a brutal break-up, a young man vows to stay celibate during the forty days of Lent, but finds the girl of his dreams and is unable to do anything about it.After a brutal break-up, a young man vows to stay celibate during the forty days of Lent, but finds the girl of his dreams and is unable to do anything about it.
- Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations
- Bagel Guy
- (as Michael Maronna)
- Girl in Chinatown
- (as Stefanie Von Pfetten)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaJosh Hartnett tried to emulate his character's celibacy. He lasted for two weeks.
- GoofsAfter Matt goes into his meeting with an erection he is shown in tan khakis, when Ryan gets up and tells him his "little friend" is showing, they zoom in on Matt's erection and he has on dark blue/black pants.
- Quotes
Mandy: [Mandy describes to Matt the importance of women's power of abstinence] Women have been doing this since, well, forever, so we know all about the power. See, us having the power, that's part of the system, and by you taking the power, you're fucking with the system. And I think you see why we can't let that happen.
- Alternate versionsThe TV version aired in the USA blurs out the nudity.
- SoundtracksBig Blue Sea
Written and Performed by Bob Schneider
Courtesy of Universal Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
Someone who wants to have sex but is somehow thwarted; now THAT'S funny ... well, potentially funny. Someone who wants NOT to have sex but is somehow coerced into doing so; that's NOT funny.
-Actually, very frequently it IS funny, but under conditions that don't hold here. The man who simply wants to read a book or work on his woodcarving but has an insatiable spouse; that can be amusing. The man who for obscure "because it's in the script, that's why" reasons gives up sex for Lent well, whatever. If the film wants to ignore this tepid premise and tell jokes about, say, badminton, that could work. But the sex that's been renounced is something we never hear the end of. It's like listening to someone say, "No thanks, I don't want any sugar in my coffee," six hundred and fifty times.
How long is this guy doing without, anyway? Forty days; a little over a month. Please. Most of us spend, give or take, the first five THOUSAND days of our lives without sex (and it's only so few if you accept the film's extended definition). How hard can it be?
Not a single player in the story has a brain, and the central character is in addition one of the wettest schmendricks ever to be pushed forward as a romantic lead.
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- Sprache
- Also known as
- 40 Ngày Và Đêm
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Box office
- Budget
- $17,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $37,950,822
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $12,229,529
- Mar 3, 2002
- Gross worldwide
- $95,146,283
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