![]() Leslie Mann actually turned 40 in 2012 and this movie obviously was lifted from Apatow's domestic life, including what passes for witty pillow talk. As Malcolm Forbes said, "There is nothing wrong with nepotism as long as you keep it in the family." Although Paul Rudd plays Apatow's character "Pete", Apatow's wife, Leslie Mann plays wife "Debbie", and his two daughters, Maude and Iris, play the children. ![]() It is no exaggeration to call This is Forty "a home movie." Apatow wrote and directed it. ![]() Judging from the rave reviews, we are willing to oblige." In 2007, I wrote: "Knocked Up" is a trip down a psychic rabbit hole populated by perverts, creeps and losers. Judd Apatow's productions which include the HBO series "Girls" and movies like "Knocked Up" (2007) and "This is Forty" (2012) specialize in this kind of train-wreck voyeurism. There is a special schadenfreude you get from watching other people degrade themselves. Since man cannot aspire to be godlike, all that remains is a Therefore "comedy" no longer is defined as being "funny" but as beingÄisgusting. man is an animal with no divine soul, there is no need to restrain his basest appetites and functions. Of Hollywood Jews, the only people he knows. The studio sold this movie with the tagline:
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