Hall Pass
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When best buds Rick and Fred begin to show signs of restlessness at home, their wives take a bold approach to revitalize their marriages, they grant the guys a 'hall pass'—one week of freedom to do whatever they want. At first, it seems like a dream come true, but they quickly discover that their expectations of the single life—and themselves—are completely and hilariously out of sync with reality.
What critics thought
Hall Pass landed with a thud for most critics, who found the Farrelly brothers coasting on crude gags without the anarchic energy that made their earlier work land. The central irony critics kept circling back to was that a film sold as a raunchy free-for-all turns out to be surprisingly conventional in its values — and neither the raunchiness nor the conservatism is executed with enough conviction to make either work.
“A problem with Hall Pass, I think, is that both Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis are affable, and the movie wants us to like them. It is often more useful for a comedy to have characters whose embarrassment we enjoy.”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
“disguising of an inherently conservative movie as some kind of anything-goes frat house sex romp”
UltraCulture
“Hall Pass is outright hideous and also embarrassing, like a creepy uncle sporting a backwards baseball cap and cracking bad, lewd jokes for the under-thirties. At a funeral.”
The Telegraph
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Cast & Crew
Bobby FarrellyDirector
Peter FarrellyDirector
Owen WilsonRick Mills
Jason SudeikisFred Searing
Jenna FischerMaggie Mills
Christina ApplegateGrace Searing
Nicky WhelanLeigh
Richard JenkinsCoakley
Stephen MerchantGary
Larry Joe CampbellHog-Head
Bruce ThomasRick Coleman
Tyler HoechlinGerry
Derek WatersBrent
Alexandra DaddarioPaige
Rolfe KentComposer
Matthew F. LeonettiCinematographyFrom the studio
Hall Pass
When best buds Rick and Fred begin to show signs of restlessness at home, their wives take a bold approach to revitalize their marriages, they grant the guys a 'hall pass'—one week of freedom to do whatever they want. At first, it seems like a dream come true, but they quickly discover that their expectations of the single life—and themselves—are completely and hilariously out of sync with reality.
What critics thought
Hall Pass landed with a thud for most critics, who found the Farrelly brothers coasting on crude gags without the anarchic energy that made their earlier work land. The central irony critics kept circling back to was that a film sold as a raunchy free-for-all turns out to be surprisingly conventional in its values — and neither the raunchiness nor the conservatism is executed with enough conviction to make either work.
“A problem with Hall Pass, I think, is that both Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis are affable, and the movie wants us to like them. It is often more useful for a comedy to have characters whose embarrassment we enjoy.”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
“disguising of an inherently conservative movie as some kind of anything-goes frat house sex romp”
UltraCulture
“Hall Pass is outright hideous and also embarrassing, like a creepy uncle sporting a backwards baseball cap and cracking bad, lewd jokes for the under-thirties. At a funeral.”
The Telegraph
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Cast & Crew
Bobby FarrellyDirectorPeter FarrellyDirectorOwen WilsonRick MillsJason SudeikisFred SearingJenna FischerMaggie MillsChristina ApplegateGrace SearingNicky WhelanLeighRichard JenkinsCoakleyStephen MerchantGaryLarry Joe CampbellHog-HeadBruce ThomasRick ColemanTyler HoechlinGerryDerek WatersBrentAlexandra DaddarioPaigeRolfe KentComposerMatthew F. LeonettiCinematographyFrom the studio
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