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2007 film
Knocked Up
Knocked Up theatrical poster
Directed byJudd Apatow
Written byJudd Apatow
Produced byJudd Apatow
Shauna Robertson
Clayton Townsend
Seth Rogen
Evan Goldberg
StarringSeth Rogen
Katherine Heigl
Paul Rudd
Leslie Mann
Jason Segel
Jay Baruchel
Jonah Hill
Martin Starr
Distributed byUniversal Studios
Release dateJune 1 2007
Running time129 min.
LanguageEnglish
Budget$30 million

Knocked Up is a 2007 American comedy film written and directed by Judd Apatow. It stars Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, and Leslie Mann.

Plot

Ben Stone (Seth Rogen) is a 23-year-old slacker who is in the process of establishing fleshofthestars.com, a website that lists the exact moment in time at which nude scenes with famous actresses occur in films. Alison Scott (Katherine Heigl) is a responsible young woman who works behind the scenes at E! Television Network. Although she is on the career fast track, she lives in the pool house behind her sister Debbie's home, and plays an active role in helping her and her husband Pete raise their daughters.

Alison and Ben find themselves at the same club where she is celebrating her promotion at E! with her sister. They begin drinking together, and she invites him back to her pool house. The next morning, they learn that they have very little in common. Eight weeks later, Alison begins feeling very sick and comes to the conclusion that she is pregnant, and she contacts Ben. She tells Ben that she is pregnant and that she has decided to keep the baby. Ben's initial response of shock and anger mixed with Alison's frustrations creates tension, resulting in Ben agreeing to take Alison to the OB/GYN to confirm the pregnancy.

After the pregnancy is confirmed, Ben says that he will be there to support Alison and help her through it. She and Ben begin spending more time together and become very close. Ben awkwardly but sweetly proposes to Alison, saying that he just wants to do the right thing. Alison is touched by the gesture, but thinks it's too soon for marriage. Meanwhile, Debbie begins to suspect that Pete's late night jaunts out of the house to see a band for his record label, are really a cover for an affair. But when she tries to prove this, she later discovers that Pete's actually part of a fantasy baseball league. Debbie refuses to speak to Pete thereafter.

On the way to the gynecologist's office, Ben and Alison begin fighting. She kicks him out of her car into the road, and heads to the doctor's alone while blaming her hormones. Ben walks the rest of the way to the gynecologist's office; Alison still doesn't want to see him and asks Ben to leave. Alison says that she doesn't want to end up like Debbie and Pete, they have a heated exchange at the office, and Ben storms off. The two men fed up with their situations, Ben and Pete set out for a road trip to Las Vegas where they indulge in psychedelic mushrooms and watch Cirque du Soleil. While hallucinating, they have a revelation that they should be back in Los Angeles and taking responsibility. Debbie and Pete's reconciliation is evident at their daughter's birthday party, but when Pete confesses to his wife about taking mushrooms, Alison hears this and refuses to speak to Ben, who tries to reconcile. Ben goes out to get a job as a web designer, gets a decent apartment, and sets up a baby room in his apartment. All the while, spending less time partying with his friends and reading the books he purchased with Alison about pregnancy, ones he had lied to Alison about having read.

Alison goes into labor and tries to get a hold of her doctor. Unable to contact Dr. Howard, she calls Ben. Ben takes her to the hospital where the two reconcile, and they joyfully welcome the birth of their daughter. A few days later, Alison and Ben and the baby are heading back home. They decide to live in Ben's new apartment, and the end credits show the young family living happily ever after and celebrating their daughter's first birthday.

Cast

Music

Strange Weirdos: Music From And Inspired By The Film Knocked Up, an original soundtrack album, was composed for the film by folk singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III and Joe Henry.

In addition to Wainwright's songs, the following songs were featured in the film:

Reception

In an early review, Variety magazine called the film "more explosively funny, more frequently, than nearly any major studio release in recent memory."

Another early review, eFilmCritic stated the following about Knocked Up, "Before you go into Knocked Up, every serious movie fan should make up a list of their favorite comedies of the past two decades. If Old School is on it, you are disqualified. But no matter what is, scratch one off of it – because Knocked Up is going to knock it off eventually and it's earned the spot."

Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 92% fresh rating from 165 reviews (151 fresh, 14 rotten). The film is currently the best reviewed wide release of 2007 according to the website.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).. The film has continued to surprise box office analysts with its high earnings, and as of June 25, 2007 the film has grossed $109,323,845, making it the 8th film of 2007 to surpass the 100 million mark.

Production notes

Anne Hathaway was originally cast as "Alison Scott" in the film, but dropped out due to creative reasons. Apatow wrote that “Hathaway dropped out of the film because she didn’t want to allow us to use real footage of a woman giving birth to create the illusion that she is giving birth.” Jennifer Love Hewitt and Kate Bosworth auditioned for the part after Hathaway dropped out but ended up losing to Katherine Heigl.

A good portion of the cast members are returning actors from previous Judd Apatow projects. Seth Rogen, Martin Starr, Jason Segel, and James Franco all starred in the short-lived, cult television series Freaks and Geeks. Rogen and Segel would also later star in the Apatow-created Undeclared with Jay Baruchel and Loudon Wainwright III. Paul Feig, who co-created Freaks and Geeks, also makes a brief cameo as the Fantasy Baseball Guy.

In the commentary for Accepted, Jonah Hill states he does an impersonation of Larry Flynt in Knocked Up. Hill also says that the release date at the time of the commentary was August 2007.

A leaked clip of a deleted scene shows Jonah telling Alison that Brokeback Mountain is being extremely positive for the LGBT community but lacking any real male nudity and sex scenes, which is opposite to females, where they tend to show nudity and their actions. The clip also makes derisive comments concerning Anne Hathaway, who starred in Brokeback Mountain and had originally been cast for Knocked Up before changing her mind.

In the film, one of the main characters is employed by a web design agency called Jetset Studios. The name and logo shown belong to a real-life online interactive agency for Apatow Productions.

Alleged copyright infringement

Canadian author Rebecca Eckler has written in Maclean's Magazine about the similarities between the movie and her book, Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother-to-Be, which was released in the US in March 2005. She is pursuing legal action against Apatow and Universal Studios on the basis of copyright infringement. In a public statement, Apatow said, "Anyone who reads the book and sees the movie will instantly know that they are two very different stories about a common experience."

References

  1. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=knockedup.htm
  2. 'Get Knocked Up'. SillyPipeDreams.com. April 04, 2007. Retrieved on April 17, 2007.
  3. Leydon, Joe. Knocked Up review Variety. March 13, 2007. Retrieved on April 11, 2007.
  4. Childress, Erik. Movie Review - Knocked Up March 22, 2007. Retrieved on April 19, 2007
  5. Rotten Tomatoes - Knocked Up. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved on June 12, 2007.
  6. 'Grey's' Star Heigl Gets 'Knocked Up'. Zap2it.com. April 18, 2006. Retrieved on April 11, 2007.
  7. Judd Apatow's Family Values. The New York Times. May 27, 2007. Retrieved June 3, 2007.
  8. Eckler, Rebecca: "Is That my Baby on the Screen", page 69-71. Maclean's Magazine, Volume 120 Number 22, June 11, 2007
  9. Complaint for Copyright Infringement: Demand for Jury Trial - legal filing with United States District Court, Central Distric of California, January 3, 2007
  10. Author says 'Knocked Up' ripped off, Associated Press, CNN.com, Published June 7, 2007, Retrieved on June 9, 2007

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