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Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance 114 min PG-13
Rotten Tomatoes49%Metacritic48IMDb
Only a man this shallow could fall in love this deep.
After taking his dying father's advice, Hal dates only the embodiments of female physical perfection. But that all changes after Hal has an unexpected run-in with self-help guru Tony Robbins. Intrigued by Hal's shallowness, Robbins hypnotizes him into seeing the beauty that exists even in the least physically appealing women. Hal soon falls for Rosemary, but he doesn't realize that his gorgeous girlfriend is actually a 300-pound-not-so-hottie.
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Spare, comic, effortless and warm.
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Bobby and Peter Farrelly, masters of grossout comedy, have always had a streak of tender humanism running through their movies, and in their latest it comes to the fore. Jack Black, in the title role, undergoes a transformation at the hands of the self-help maestro Tony Robbins, and perceives inner beauty as its physi…
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