Zack and Miri Make a Porno is a 2008 comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith. It is Smith's second film (after Jersey Girl) not to be set within the View Askewniverse and the first not set in New Jersey. It was released on October 31, 2008.| Directed by | Kevin Smith |
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| Produced by | Scott Mosier |
| Written by | Kevin Smith |
| Music by | James L. Venable |
| Cinematography | Dave Klein |
| Editing by | Kevin Smith |
| Distributed by | The Weinstein Company |
| Release date(s) | October 31, 2008 |
Cast
 | Elizabeth Banks | ... | Miriam Linky |
 | Seth Rogen | ... | Zack Brown |
 | Jason Mewes | ... | Lester |
| Gerry Bednob | ... | Mr. Surya |
| Edward Janda | ... | Customer |
| Nicholas Lombardi | ... | Teen #1 |
| Chris Milan | ... | Teen #2 |
 | Jennifer Schwalbach Smith | ... | Betsy (as Jennifer Schwalbach) |
| Kenny Hotz | ... | Zack II |
 | Brandon Routh | ... | Bobby Long |
 | Anne Wade | ... | Roxanne |
 | Justin Long | ... | Brandon |
| Tom Savini | ... | Jenkins |
| Jeff Anderson | ... | Deacon |
| Jim Norton | ... | Auditioner #1 |
Movie Review:
Kevin Smith's "Zack and Miri Make a Porno" occupies the other end of the IQ scale. It's really dumb, even though it starts promisingly and continues, in a self-infatuated way, to consider itself quite bright. Zack and Miri, played by Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks, are friends since high school and roommates living not only platonically but impecuniously; the lights and water have just been turned off. To avoid going completely broke they decide to, yes, make a porn movie. And they decide to star in it, though they vow that having sex will never spoil the purity of their friendship.
That's a fine idea for the right filmmaker, and the pairing of Mr. Rogen and Ms. Banks is as promising as it is preposterous. Judd Apatow certainly pulled off a gross-wins-gorgeous romance by casting Mr. Rogen opposite Katherine Heigl in "Knocked Up." Yet Mr. Smith, the "Clerks" auteur and a specialist in slackers and losers, slathers his patented slob esthetic indiscriminately. "Star Whores," the porn movie within the movie, is predictably crude and nonsensical, but so is the movie that surrounds it. The auditions for the porn film are thuddingly unfunny. The editing throughout is primitive -- back and forth between characters in a given scene with grindingly unvaried rhythms. The script plays like a bad treatment that tries to sell itself by explaining plot points -- including the notion that the porno cast, which includes the former porn star Traci Lords, is one big happy, supportive family putting on a show in the spirit of an Andy Hardy comedy. And Seth Rogen is totally out of control. He's been marvelously funny in the past, and will be again, but get that party animal back in his cage
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