Rent Hall Pass (2011)
3.1 of 5 from 179 ratings
1h 41min
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- Synopsis:
- Rick (Owen Wilson) and Fred (Jason Sudeikis) L are best friends, each married many years. When the guys show signs of restlessness at home, their wives (Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate) take a bold approach to revitalising their respective marriages: granting them a "hall pass," one week of freedom to do whatever they want... no questions asked. At first a dream come true, it's not long before Rick and Fred find that their expectations of the single life - and themselves - are completely and hilariously out of sync with reality.
- Actors:
- Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis, Christina Applegate, Jenna Fischer, Nicky Whelan, Richard Jenkins, Stephen Merchant, Larry Joe Campbell, Bruce Thomas, Tyler Hoechlin, Derek Waters, Alexandra Daddario, Rob Moran, Lauren Bowles, Christa Beth Campbell, Macsen Lintz, Kristin Carey, Joy Behar, Carly Craig, Kaliko Kauahi
- Directors:
- Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
- Producers:
- Mark Charpentier, Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, J.B. Rogers, Brad Thomas, Charles B. Wessler
- Writers:
- Pete Jones, Peter Farrelly
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Comedy, Romance
- Collections:
- A History of Sports Films (Summer Edition)
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 04/07/2011
- Run Time:
- 105 minutes
- Languages:
- Castilian Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1, English Audio Description Dolby Digital 5.1, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1, German Dolby Digital 5.1, Thai Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Cantonese, Castillian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish, Thai
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- Bonus:
- An outrageous additional scene
- Hilarious gag reel
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Hall Pass review by Melissa Orcine - Cinema Paradiso
In school a ‘hall pass’ is when a teacher gives a student permission to go out of the classroom and roam around the halls without question. In the movie ‘Hall Pass’, it’s about wives giving permission to their husbands to act like unmarried single men for a week. What could ever go wrong?
Writer-directors the Farrelly Brothers (Bobby and Peter) return with yet another comedy, this time co-writing with Pete Jones about married couples who would roll the dice in order to make a marital point. Rick (Owen Wilson) and Fred (Jason Sudeikis) are best friends and their wives Maggie (Jenna Fischer) and Grace (Christina Applegate) are too. The husbands find their sex lives with their respective spouses boring and they feel discontent, missing the good ol’ days of their single days. And so, their wives give them relationship hall passes, no questions asked, and all access back to the horny life. Along for the ride are other married friends Gary (Stephen Merchant), Flats (J.B. Smoove), and Hog Head (Larry Joe Campbell), who are only there to observe the festivities (we’ll see) or maybe act as the angel/devil on their shoulders.
‘Hall Pass’ incites hearty laughs; both Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis (more so Wilson) portray lovable schlubs. You know they’re deplorable human beings but they’re just too dang cute and funny to provoke a lashing. The situations are ridiculous – a
Farrelly Brothers guarantee –, Jenna Fischer and Stephen Merchant know comedy well, especially Christina Applegate who has the repressed-conservative-about-to-go-wild-for-another-man-not-her-husband character delivered in a hilarious tizzy.
The premise of ‘Hall Pass’ is every married man’s fantasy – but the women in this movie won’t be caught moping who they’re husbands hooked up with, no way. The hall pass works both ways and of course, the women will sow their inner wild oats as well. This gives ‘Hall Pass’ an interesting twist. Knowing that the hall pass can also be availed by the wife, would the husband go about his sexcapades without a hitch? Doesn’t that change the dynamic altogether? And can a marriage be ever the same after a sanctioned infidelity?