Shallow Hal and Fourteen Hours Movie

November 5th, 2009

Shallow Hal Movie
Shallow Hal movie - Gwyneth Paltrow and Jack BlackShallow Hal is a romantic movie in 2001. It’s a comedy film about a superficial man, Hal Larson (Jack Black) who only cares about nothing but physical appearance of women, being hypnotized by famous American life coach, Tony Robbins. He hypnotizes him into seeing people’s inner beauty, rather than their external selves.

Hal Larson meets Rosemary Shanahan (Gwyneth Paltrow) later on and she appears to be a slim and beautiful due to her kind and generous nature, but is actually obese. At first, Rosemary feels that Hal is mocking and insulting her, but later they begin to date as she believe that Hal’s feelings for her is true. Then Mauricio Wilson (Jason Alexander) comes to undo the hypnosis. As this is a happy ending movie, at last Hal realizes that he still loves Rosemary despite of her huge appearance.

Shallow Hal was directed by Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly, filmed in and around Charlotte, North Carolina as well as Sterling and Holden, Massachusetts. Shallow Hal main cast: Gwyneth Paltrow (as slim / fat Rosemary Shanahan), Jack Black (as Hal Larson), and Jason Alexander (as Mauricio Wilson). In this movie, Gwyneth Paltrow played both roles, slim and fat Rosemary and had to wear a specially designed 25 pound fatsuit and heavy make-up.

Video of Shallow Hal movie – I Got You (Nick Carter)

Fourteen Hours Movie
Fourteen Hours movieFourteen Hours is a 1951 drama film, directed by Henry Hathaway, which tells the story of a New York police officer trying to stop a despondent man from jumping to his death from the fifteenth floor a hotel.

This won critical acclaim for Richard Basehart, who portrayed the mentally disturbed man on the building ledge. Paul Douglas played the officer, and a large supporting cast included Barbara Bel Geddes, Agnes Moorehead, Robert Keith, Debra Paget and Howard Da Silva. It was the screen debut of Grace Kelly and Jeffrey Hunter, who appeared in small roles.

The screenplay was written by John Paxton, based on an article by Joel Sayre in The New Yorker. Sayre’s article described the 1938 incident upon which the film was based.

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