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I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry - Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Dan Aykroyd, Dennis Dugan

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They're as straight as can be but don't tell anyone.

Adam Sandler and Kevin James team as two straight guys who stumble down the aisle with the best of intentions in I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry.

Chuck Ford (Adam Sandler) and Larry Allensworth (Kevin James) are the pride of their fire station - two guy's guys always side-by-side and willing to do anything for each other. Salt-of-the-earth widower Larry wants just one thing - to protect his family. His buddy Chuck also wants one thing - to enjoy the single life.

Grateful Chuck owes Larry for saving his life in a fire, and Larry calls in that favour big time when civic red tape prevents him from naming his own two kids as his life insurance beneficiaries. All that Chuck has to do is claim to be Larry's domestic partner on some city forms.

But when an overzealous, spot-checking bureaucrat becomes suspicious, the new couple's arrangement becomes a city-wide issue and goes from confidential to front-page news. Forced to improvise as love-struck newly-weds, Chuck and Larry must now fumble through a hilarious charade of domestic bliss under one roof. After surviving their mandatory honeymoon and dodging the threat of exposure, the well-intentioned con men discover that sticking together in your time of need is what truly makes a family

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Persons of interest

Adam Sandler .... Chuck Levine
Kevin James .... Larry Valentine
Jessica Biel .... Alex McDonough
Dan Aykroyd .... Captain Tucker
Ving Rhames .... Duncan
Steve Buscemi .... Clinton Fitzer
Nicholas Turturro .... Renaldo Pinera
Allen Covert .... Steve
Rachel Dratch .... Benefits Supervisor
Richard Chamberlain .... Councilman Banks
Nick Swardson .... Kevin McDonough
Blake Clark .... Crazy Homeless Man
Mary Pat Gleason .... Teresa
Matt Winston .... Glen Aldrich
Barry Fanaro .... Screenwriter
Lew Gallo .... Screenwriter
Alexander Payne .... Screenwriter
Jim Taylor .... Screenwriter
Dennis Dugan .... Director

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Awards and film festivals:

Razzie Awards 2008: Nominated: Worst Screen Couple, Screenplay, Director, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Actor, Picture

See also Strange bedfellows
Studios and distributors:

Universal Pictures

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Theatrical report

I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry is definitely Happy Madison's (HM) best comedy yet. I hesitate to say best film, as I thought Punch-drunk love, was a very good film to watch. I really enjoyed this film because there were more real-life jokes that I was able to relate to, rather than the usual slap-stick American comedy that their films tend to involve. Unlike previous productions like Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, where some of the jokes were irrelevant to the plot, this film's humour was spot on. About the only part of the film that I was not overly impressed by, was Rob Schneider's character of the Japanese Jewish rabbi who wed Chuck & Larry, then later Duncan & his partner. There was a phase in American society when white people would put on brown make-up, use enlarged dentures and pretend to be Asian. It was as much a discriminatory joke as when white people used to apply black make-up and pretend to be African-American.

Still, that is the only critical negativity I have. I, as well as the other capacity-filled audience members, were able to sympathise with Chuck & Larry, because sometimes best mates will go to extraordinary lengths for each other. It was much more believable that these two people could come up with this scheme than perhaps one of HM's earlier films, Big Daddy.

Now, once again, we are treated to the Madison family cast and crew, as most people who appeared in previous productions are on display in this one. What I enjoy about this arrangement is that, when people go to a movie not for it's content but rather for it's cast; it sometimes clouds a viewer's judgement, because when asked to comment, they reply, "it wasn't or was Mr So-and-so's work". Perhaps it's better for them to comment on whether they enjoyed or liked the idea of gay cowboys (see Brokeback Mountain), or if they thought that there was a hidden political message in blowing up the White House (Independence Day). While HM films tend to attract the odd special guest, rarely have they had a leading role so compelling that you to comment on the plot rather than the cast.

Upon skimming this last paragraph, I think I've counter-argued myself without a proper conclusion or reasoning for the argument, but the whole thing looks good, so I'm keeping it in there. As for the film, go and see it at the movies. It's great for all feelings; it'll cheer you up if you're sad, get you thinking even though you don't feel like it; and give the men some happy thoughts (yay Jessica Biel!) and the women something to talk about.

The comedy movie I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry is directed by Dennis Dugan and stars Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Dan Aykroyd.