Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 11/09/2001(USA)
Release Date: 07/02/2002
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English/Espanol/French
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 113 Minutes
Flags: Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Adult Humor
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
Jack Black continues his march to stardom with this typical
Farrelly brothers blend of broad
comedy and a heartfelt message.
Black is
Hal Larsen, a shallow man rapidly approaching middle age whose superficiality can be attributed to his father's deathbed admonition to only date young, beautiful women.
Hal and his best friend,
Mauricio (
Jason Alexander), have taken the advice to heart, but
Hal finds all of his physically impressive girlfriends consistently lacking in other qualities that would make them ideal mates. When he bumps into self-help guru
Tony Robbins (playing himself), the motivational entrepreneur is intrigued by
Hal's predicament and hypnotizes him so that he'll only see the inner beauty of women.
Hal is quickly smitten with
Rosemary Shanahan (
Gwyneth Paltrow), a blonde Peace Corps volunteer who's tenderhearted, funny, and intelligent. She is also gorgeous and meets
Hal's basic criteria of outer perfection, but what he doesn't realize is that
Robbins' spell is working and he cannot see that
Rosemary actually weights 300 pounds. When
Mauricio is finally able to snap
Hal out of his charmed state,
Hal's in love with the inwardly perfect woman and must overcome his obsession with beauty. The script for
Shallow Hal (2001) was developed when
Peter Farrelly enjoyed the humorous letters written to a mutual friend by
Sean Moynihan, a computer software executive who followed the filmmaker's advice to take up screenwriting.
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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