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The 40-Year-Old Virgin is a 2005 American romantic comedy film directed by Judd Apatow (in his feature directorial debut), who produced the film with Clayton Townsend and Shauna Robertson. It features Steve Carell as the titular 40-year-old virgin Andy, an employee at an electronics store.
Jan 28, 2022 · The 40-Year-Old Virgin can be traced back to Adam McKay’s Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, on which Judd Apatow was a producer.
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Aug 19, 2005 · The 40-Year-Old Virgin: Directed by Judd Apatow. With Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, Romany Malco. Goaded by his buddies, a nerdy guy who's never "done the deed" only finds the pressure mounting when he meets a single mother.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Judd Apatow
- 2005-08-19
May 15, 2024 · When it emerged in 2005, 40-Year-Old Virgin and its poster were quietly revolutionary. It was a different time. Three comedies were among the highest-grossing movies of the year: Wedding Crashers, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and Hitch. They all had the same basic poster: the lead actors posing in front of a white background, with their whole bodies in ...
- Roger Cormier
- The 40-Year-Old Virgin was based on one of Steve Carell's Second City sketches. The sketch was about a man who, in trying to keep up in a poker game conversation about sexual experiences, proves to be completely clueless about the subject.
- Universal Studios provided Steve Carell and Judd Apatow with case studies on middle-age virginity. They read that older virgins were typically normal people who, according to Carell, "at some point just gave up on the whole notion; it was more difficult to keep attempting than to give up."
- Steve Carell was 43 years old and a father of two when The 40-Year-Old Virgin was released. Carell's four-year-old daughter was “a little freaked out” at seeing her father on billboards promoting The 40-Year-Old Virgin.
- Universal refused to allow Jason Segel to be in The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Since Apatow didn’t have veto power back then, Jason Segel was out of luck. However, the incident reinforced Apatow’s advice to Segel that he should be writing his own material for a better chance at starring in films—advice which eventually led to Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
…breakthrough came in 2005 with The 40-Year-Old Virgin, which he cowrote and starred in as the title character. Directed by Judd Apatow, the comedy combined crude humour with touching moments and became a critical and commercial hit.
May 31, 2022 · Then, Steve Carell’s name appeared at the top of the poster for a new comedy named The 40-Year Old Virgin, a film that went on to earn close to $180m worldwide after crystallising these new trends in comedy within the popular conscience.
