Stars: Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, J.K. Simmons, Jane Curtin, Jon Favreau, Jaime Pressly, Thomas Lennon, Sarah Burns, Joe Lo Truglio, Rob Huebel

Director: John Hamburg

Summary: In this comedy, Paul Rudd discovers proposing to his girlfriend (Rashida Jones, THE OFFICE) might have been the easiest part of getting married. Now he has to find a male friend to be his best man. I LOVE YOU, MAN also stars Andy Samberg (SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE) and Jason Segel (FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL).

After years of stealing scenes from the leading men in such movies as KNOCKED UP and THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN, Paul Rudd finally headlines a star vehicle of his own. Unlike those Judd Apatow productions, it's John Hamburg (ALONG CAME POLLY) who directs I LOVE YOU, MAN, albeit with many of the touchstones of Apatow's highly successful freaks-and-geeks-with-heart aesthetic. In other words, this is not an Apatow film, but, with the male capacity for--and simultaneous inability to express--fraternal love as its core comic conceit (and emotional centrepiece), it may as well be.
Rudd plays Peter Klaven, a real estate agent with a blossoming career and an imminent marriage to Zooey (THE OFFICE's Rashida Jones)--basically, he's lucky in all things except male bonding. The narrative arc centres on his quest for platonic man-love--as opposed to, say, finding the girl of his dreams--and follows the boilerplate dictates of a standard rom-com with a subversive wink. In this case, boy meets boy, boys bond over their common love of Rush and Andre the Giant, boys break up and make up, etc. Rudd and co-star Jason Segel (FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL), a fellow Apatow alum who plays Sydney Fife, the Type B object of Klaven's affection, imbue their roles with winning charisma and elevate the plot with real and nuanced chemistry. With a whip-smart pace, the film continually tills fresh comic ground as Hamburg finds punctuation points in every scene and never lets a gag overstay its welcome. While the supporting cast features many memorable turns by the likes of Jon Favreau, Jaime Pressly, and Andy Samberg, I LOVE YOU, MAN ultimately belongs to Rudd, who approaches insecurity and social awkwardness with the same dead-eye marksmanship that Peter Sellers did for slapstick.

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Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region B
Special Features:	Commentary by director John Hamburg and actors Paul Rudd and Jason Segel, The making of I LOVE YOU, MAN, Extended scenes, Deleted scenes, Gag reel
Subtitles:	Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, Italian, French, German, Danish, English, Swedish
Year:	2009
Release Date:	August 24, 2009
Runtime:	105 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	B S L 2098
Keywords:	Man, Love, You, English, Comedy, General, I
Genre:	Comedy