Storyline
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 gay 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.
Directors
Cast
Adam Sandler, Nick Swardson, Allen Covert, David Spade, Jessica Biel, Brad Grunberg, Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi, Matt Winston, Rob Corddry, Dave Matthews, Rachel Dratch, Dan Patrick, Jackie Sandler, Blake Clark, Jonathan Loughran, J.D. Donaruma, Rob Schneider, Kevin James, Jamie Chung, Dan Aykroyd, Nicholas Turturro, Becky O'Donohue, Mary Pat Gleason, Robert Smigel, Lance Bass, Peter Dante, Gary Valentine, Shelby Adamowsky, Jessie O'Donohue, Richard Chamberlain, Marc Vann, Kathleen Doyle, Chandra West, Tila Tequila, Jina Song, Candace Kita, Lena Yada, Richard Kline, Michael Buscemi, Cole Morgen
Trailer
Reviews
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 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
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.
