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- Release date: November 2, 2001
- Running time: 113 minutes
- Rated: PG-13
- Starring: Jack Black, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jason Alexander
- Produced and directed by: The Farrelly Brothers
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Shallow Hal is a romantic comedy about a shallow, superficial man who will only date beautiful women. While working one day, he runs into life coach, who hypnotizes him into seeing the inner beauty of women.
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Background
Shallow Hal was directed by the Farrelly brothers who are famous for their broad, politically incorrect comedies such as Dumb & Dumber, There's Something About Mary, and Me, Myself & Irene. At the time, the film was controversial for it's use of obesity as a source of comedy. In the years following the two main stars of the film would regret working on it. The film would go on to be a successful box office hit with a worldwide box office gross of $141,069,860 and would even make the Top 10 list of famed critic Richard Roeper for 2001. -
Negative Quotes
Gwyneth Paltrow divides her films into two categories: those she does for love and those she does for money, or "shite" as she calls them, tentatively road-testing the British vernacular. Into the former category goes Sylvia, which, she says, "because it's a movie about a poet who killed herself, [didn't] have a big audience", and The Royal Tenenbaums. Into the latter goes Shallow Hal, the Farrelly brothers film, and "this terrible movie called View From the Top that Harvey Weinstein talked me into doing". - The Guardian, January 27, 2006
"I feel I kind of sold out a little bit when I did the movie Shallow Hal. "I had an opportunity to work with some dudes I thought were really funny, but it didn't turn out as I'd hoped, I wasn't proud of it, and I got paid a lot of money, so in retrospect it feels like a sell-out." - Jack Black, Contact Music.com, December 10, 2006
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Cast
- Jack Black as Hal Larson
- Gwyneth Paltrow as Rosemary Shanahan
- Jason Alexander as Mauricio Wilson
- Joe Viterelli as Steve Shanahan
- Susan Ward as Jill
- Brooke Burns as Katrina
- Anthony Robbins as Himself
- Kyle Gass as Artie
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Shallow Hal Questions
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Who is Hal Turner? 1 AnswerHarold Charles "Hal" Turner is an American white nationalist and white supremacist from North Bergen, New Jersey. On June 3rd 2009, Turner was arrested and char... read more -
Freaky to think that next year is 2010! Where is HAL? 1 AnswerScary as it sounds, I think they're getting there. Currently, computing companies are working with organic circuits that can compute at much faster speeds than ... read more -
Has anyone ever seen Shallow Grave? 1 Answeryes it is a movie about three friends. After three roommates they think they can live with, they find him dead on the floor with a suitcase full of cash. It is ... read more -
Whats the difference between shallow cut diamonds compared to well cut? 1 AnswerShallow or deep diamonds will lose light out the sides and bottom. They do not have the same scintillation as ideally cut diamonds. They appear with dark grey... read more
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Shallow Hal is a romantic comedy about a shallow, superficial man who will only date beautiful women. While working one day, he runs into life coach, who hypnotizes him into seeing the inner beauty of women.
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Fast Facts
- Release date: November 2, 2001
- Running time: 113 minutes
- Rated: PG-13
- Starring: Jack Black, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jason Alexander
- Produced and directed by: The Farrelly Brothers
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Background
</small> Shallow Hal was directed by the Farrelly brothers who are famous for their broad, politically incorrect comedies such as Dumb & Dumber, There's Something About Mary, and Me, Myself & Irene. At the time, the film was controversial for it's use of obesity as a source of comedy. In the years following the two main stars of the film would regret working on it. The film would go on to be a successful box office hit with a worldwide box office gross of $141,069,860 and would even make the Top 10 list of famed critic Richard Roeper for 2001. -
Negative Quotes
</small> Gwyneth Paltrow divides her films into two categories: those she does for love and those she does for money, or "shite" as she calls them, tentatively road-testing the British vernacular. Into the former category goes Sylvia, which, she says, "because it's a movie about a poet who killed herself, [didn't] have a big audience", and The Royal Tenenbaums. Into the latter goes Shallow Hal, the Farrelly brothers film, and "this terrible movie called View From the Top that Harvey Weinstein talked me into doing". - The Guardian, January 27, 2006
"I feel I kind of sold out a little bit when I did the movie Shallow Hal. "I had an opportunity to work with some dudes I thought were really funny, but it didn't turn out as I'd hoped, I wasn't proud of it, and I got paid a lot of money, so in retrospect it feels like a sell-out." - Jack Black, Contact Music.com, December 10, 2006
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Cast
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- Jack Black as Hal Larson
- Gwyneth Paltrow as Rosemary Shanahan
- Jason Alexander as Mauricio Wilson
- Joe Viterelli as Steve Shanahan
- Susan Ward as Jill
- Brooke Burns as Katrina
- Anthony Robbins as Himself
- Kyle Gass as Artie
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