Hall Pass

    Hall Pass
    2011

    Synopsis

    When best buds Rick and Fred begin to show signs of restlessness at home, their wives take a bold approach to revitalize their marriages, they grant the guys a 'hall pass'—one week of freedom to do whatever they want. At first, it seems like a dream come true, but they quickly discover that their expectations of the single life—and themselves—are completely and hilariously out of sync with reality.

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    Cast

    • Owen WilsonRick Mills
    • Jason SudeikisFred Searing
    • Jenna FischerMaggie Mills
    • Christina ApplegateGrace Searing
    • Nicky WhelanLeigh
    • Richard JenkinsCoakley
    • Stephen MerchantGary
    • Larry Joe CampbellHog-Head
    • Bruce ThomasRick Coleman
    • Tyler HoechlinGerry

    Recommendations

    • 67

      Entertainment Weekly

      Hall Pass would like to be as dunked in reality as Judd Apatow's best comedies, but the movie is thin. The Farrellys can't quite nudge the characters from two dimensions to three.
    • 60

      Time Out

      A largely sexless sex romp, has such a winning sense of middle-aged exhaustion to it that you might want to add a star or two, especially if you're familiar with the banalities of matrimonial bliss.
    • 50

      The Hollywood Reporter

      The slapstick and action comedy interludes are haphazardly executed at best, and matters aren't helped by the film's incredibly ugly look.
    • 50

      Variety

      While the stabs at grown-up insight miss their targets, picture still packs more pure comedic punch than the Farrellys' last few offerings.
    • 50

      Chicago Reader

      As in "Breaking Upwards," the best joke here is that the wives (Jenna Fischer, Christina Applegate) wind up getting more action during the marital recess than their hapless hubbies.
    • 50

      Chicago Tribune

      It's secondhand, vaguely resigned material. And while Sudeikis has some talent, he's not yet ready to co-anchor a feature comedy. He's no Ed Helms, in other words.
    • 40

      Village Voice

      The crazy-barista melodrama-slapstick collision seems not like a nimble twist, but tone-deaf blundering-what once came naturally now seems like trying too hard, as the Farrellys face their own mid-life crisis.
    • 38

      Orlando Sentinel

      A rude and seriously crude riff on taking a vacation from marriage.

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