My Rating: 7/10My Best Friend's Girl is a 2008 comedy film by Howard Deutch and stars Jason Biggs, Kate Hudson, Dane Cook, Alec Baldwin, and Lizzy Caplan. The release date is September 19, 2008.
Director: Howard Deutch
Writer : Jordan Cahan (written by)
Release Date: 19 September 2008 (USA)
Genre: Comedy
Plot:
Tank (Cook) faces the ultimate test of friendship when his best friend hires him to take his ex-girlfriend (Hudson) out on a lousy date in order to make her realize how great her former boyfriend is.Cast
- Dane Cook as Tank
- Kate Hudson as Alexis
- Jason Biggs as Dustin
- Alec Baldwin as Billy
- Lizzy Caplan as Ami
- Jenny Mollen as Colleen
- Diora Baird as Rachel
- Amanda Brooks as Carly
- Mini Anden as Lizzy
- Mike Mciver Jr as Office Mail Man
Review: Comedian-actor Dane Cook still hasn't managed to make me laugh out loud in a movie theater.
In "My Best Friend's Girl," though, he does something probably more important. He makes me really care about his character.
Tank (Cook) appears to be a lout to the ninth degree. He's the anti-Cupid, an emotional terrorizer of women.
When a guy gets dumped, he pays Tank to ask the girl out, gross her out verbally and physically and generally send her running back to the original boyfriend, who doesn't seem so bad anymore.
Tank meets his match with Alexis, portrayed by romantic-comedy vet Kate Hudson. My thought going in was that if Cook couldn't translate his stand-up comic success to the big screen opposite Hudson, he might never truly be a romantic-comedy movie star.
The laugh is on me, as it turns out. First-time screenwriter Jordan Cahan and veteran director Howard Deutch finally give Cook some material that's right in his sensibility wheelhouse.
Tank has the roughest edge you can imagine. He doesn't merely send women reeling in horror, he makes the mistake of falling for his best friend's girl.
Jason Biggs ("Over Her Dead Body"), is resigned now, it seems, to this kind of supportive, third-lead role. He's Dustin, Tank's friend and distant cousin who's way too eager to make Alexis his significant other the decent, good-guy way.
It should be made clear that "My Best Friend's Girl" is not light-hearted romantic comedy. Deutch ("The Whole Ten Yards") allows the script and his actors to drag the comedy below bottom-feeder, lowbrow status.
When Cook's character takes a turn the audience might not expect, though, the caustic ice begins to thaw. We realize there might be hope for at least one of the drips after all.
Add that to a quality performance by Cook ("Good Luck Chuck") and there are some things to like about this raunchy comedy with heart.
Hudson – durable as ever – is another. And Alec Baldwin, who's only in this thing for two or three scenes you may not soon forget, is another.
"My Best Friend's Girl" doesn't exactly make the smoothest exit before the end credits roll. Up until that point, though, this is a verbally poisonous comedy that rattles the sensibility cage.
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