I Love You, Man 2009  R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: John Hamburg
Cast: Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, J.K. Simmons, Jane Curtin, Jon Favreau, Jaime Pressly, Thomas Lennon, Sarah Burns, Joe Lo Truglio, Rob Huebel, Greg Levine, Jean Villepique, Mather Zickel
Real estate agent Peter Klaven (Paul Rudd) is engaged to Zooey (Rashida Jones) and now has the problem of finding a Best Man for their wedding. Peter does not shine at male bonding and has no male friends. Hoping to help Peter, Zooey urges him to reach out and try to find male friends, hoping he will find a Best Man in the process. Peter picks up on Zooey's suggestion and meets Sydney Fife (Jason Segel). They hit it off–maybe too well because now Peter and Sydney become inseparable, which, of course, causes a problem with Peter's relationship with Zooey.
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Rachel Getting Married 2008  R, 114 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin, Tunde Adebimpe, Debra Winger, Mather Zickel, Anna Deavere Smith, Anisa George, Jerome LePage, Victoria Haynes, Beau Sia
Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt) is getting married to African American Sidney (Tunde Adebimpe), and the wedding party assembles at her family's Connecticut home. Rachel's sister, neurotic Kim (Anne Hathaway), leaves rehab to attend, and she makes herself the center of the wedding weekend. First, Kim manages to get Rachel to dump her maid of honor, and then she becomes involved with the best man who happens to be another recovering alcoholic. Rachel's father (Bill Irwin) is divorced from her mother Abby (Debra Winger) and is now married to a Black woman, Carol (Anna Deavere Smith). Since the divorce, Abby has become estranged from her family. Tensions flare over the long weekend as Kim goes out of her way to make everything go wrong and creates one emotional drama after another. Hathaway received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
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| 1. I Love You, Man (2009)
2. Rachel Getting Married (2008)
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