I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

    I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
    2007

    Synopsis

    Firefighters Chuck Ford and Larry Valentine are guy's guys, loyal to the core—which is why when widower Larry asks Chuck to pose as his lover so that he can get domestic partner benefits for his kids, his buddy agrees. However, things get dicey when a bureaucrat comes calling, and the boys are forced to present a picture of domestic bliss.

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    Cast

    • Adam SandlerCharles "Chuck" Levine
    • Kevin JamesLawrence "Larry" Valentine
    • Jessica BielAlex McDonough
    • Dan AykroydCaptain Phineas J. Tucker
    • Ving RhamesFred G. Duncan
    • Steve BuscemiClinton Fitzer
    • Nicholas TurturroRenaldo Pinera
    • Allen CovertSteve
    • Rachel DratchBenefits Supervisor
    • Nick SwardsonKevin McDonough

    Recommendations

    • 70

      Village Voice

      Tremendously savvy in its stupid way, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry is as eloquent as "Brokeback Mountain," and even more radical.
    • 60

      The Hollywood Reporter

      The curious thing here is that Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor rewrote this long-in-development screenplay. Yet the authors of such smart comedies as "Sideways," "About Schmidt" and "Citizen Ruth" can't move the film away from the world of easy laughs and sitcom jokes into a realm where sexual prejudices and presumptions get examined in a whimsical yet insightful manner.
    • 60

      Variety

      The kind of buddy comedy Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau might have starred in 40 years ago, when the material would have felt less dated, if no less silly.
    • 60

      L.A. Weekly

      If nothing else, Chuck & Larry should open up a whole new career path for the ineffably funny, unselfconsciously buck-naked Ving Rhames as an übermacho firefighter who’s been sitting on a little secret of his own.
    • 60

      Washington Post

      Essentially, Chuck & Larry is an oafish chance for audiences to laugh at gay-bashing jokes and then feel morally redeemed for doing so -- courtesy of an obligatory wrap-up scene that reminds us that homosexuals are humans, too.
    • 50

      ReelViews

      There's nothing here to appreciate for anyone who isn't a Sandler fan and, unfortunately, too little even for those who have dubbed themselves lifelong supporters.
    • 50

      Chicago Tribune

      The film is half rutting goat, half preacher.
    • 42

      Entertainment Weekly

      Myself, I felt victimized by the stereotype shtick of reliably grating Rob Schneider as a Canadian-Japanese wedding-chapel minister from SNL castoff hell. But maybe that's just because this movie encourages sensitivity by hitting everyone over the head with its humor hammer.

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