2008 · comedy · romance
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Directed by Nicholas Stoller1h 51m2008
When actress Sarah Marshall dumps aspiring musician Peter Bretter for rock star Aldous Snow, Peter's world comes crashing down. His best friend Brian suggests that Peter should get away from everything and to fly off to Hawaii to escape all his problems. After arriving in Hawaii and meeting the beautiful receptionist Rachel Jansen, Peter is shocked to see not only Aldous in Hawaii, but also Sarah.
Our read: Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, measured comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- intimate
- funny
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