40 Days And 40 Nights (DVD)

...aspects of '40 Days and 40 Nights' are ridiculous and cheesy, I appreciate the fact that it is a pro-sex movie. Sure, at the beginning, Matt is miserable with his life of one night stands, but the film does not make any moral judgments about his lifestyle choices. He feels unfulfilled emotionally, but the film does not imply that Matt will be going to hell or be suffering any other consequences. The premise is rather weak, to put it mildly. Six months ...
...choice to remain chaste for 40 days. Partly, he seems convinced that his brother will fail, but he also seems unsure of his own decision. A full-fledged priest also puts in his two cents of doubt that Matt will be able to abstain. The film gets in plenty of digs at the Catholic Church including a scene where Matt imagines the Virgin Mary winking at him. Another interesting touch is that Matt's parents disapprove of their older son's choice to become ...

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...sex and self gratification for 40 days. But when his room mate learns of his self enforced abstinence, things take a turn for the worse as he becomes the focus of everyone’s attention as they start to gamble on when he will crumble and give in to temptation. Things are made even worse when Matt meets the beautiful Erica (Shannyn Sossamon) and as their friendship grows he struggles to explain to her about his self inflicted celibacy without sounding ...
...first experienced "40 Days and 40 Nights" on the big screen back in 2002, I absolutely loved it and thought it was hilarious. Maybe this was due to the then cinematic trend for juvenile, teen sex comedies such as "American Pie" or maybe it was because I was just very juvenile. But over the subsequent years my enjoyment of "40 Days and 40 Nights" has certainly waned as either I have outgrown these sorts of movies or that "40 Days and 40 Nights" although ...

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...pleasures of the skin for 40 days and 40 nights, and can the beautiful girl at the laundrette help him? And so the scene is set for possibly the shallowest movie I have ever seen. The one plus point was that Josh Hartnett (who honestly has the acting ability of a garden shed) and Shannyn Sossamon did play together quite well, and the romantic interludes did work more or less. Shannyn Sossamon's character, Erica, was the one beacon of light in the ...
...to the end of the 40 days culminated with what was in fact, a rape scene. OK the victim was male and the perpetrator was a gorgeous female, but it still was unconsensual sex and yet this was brushed away as if it didn't matter. Still no doubt in the shallow minds of the Hollywood producers this was perfectly acceptable. I realise I'm not the film's target audience and perhaps in the eyes of a younger viewer, and at the risk of being sexist, a female ...

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40 Days and 40 Nights is a typical American romantic comedy directed by Michael Lehmann and released in 2002. The main character Matt in the film is played by the familiar face of Josh Hartnett. ===The Plot=== Matt is a website designer who lives in San Francisco. Since being dumped by his ex he has been living the life of a true bachelor and has turned in to a real womaniser. His dependence on the female of the species begins to catch up with him ...
...so he decides to take a vow of celibacy. Matt vows to give up any kind of sexual encounter for lent meaning a total absence of forty days and Forty nights. His vow includes no kissing or masturbation of any kind so he removes all the porn from his room to resist any kind of temptation and decides to take up model building in order to occupy his mind! Matt shares his flat with his single male friend who thinks his vow is a joke and there is no way ...

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...call tonsillitis. After watching 40 Days and 40 Nights, I thought it would be a good idea to share it with you all! Josh Harnett (Pearl Harbour, Black Hawk Down) plays Matt Sullivan, the lovable and extremely devoted lover of Nicole (Vinessa Shaw). The film starts with Matt watching scenes of Nicole and himself on his laptop, obviously filmed during some sickeningly happy and tender times together. In the scene that follows we see Matt attempting ...
...foreplay, NO fooling around for 40 days and 40 nights! John tries to warn him of the difficulties that he would face (well he would know) and actually tries to dissuade Matt. Matt seems determined and gets home, clears out the porn, mags, pics or anything that may have him thinking of sex at all and replaces with things like model making sets, books etc. Ryan returns home to find a very different and more positive Matt. After a few days he discovers ...

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...abstinent from any sex for 40 days. Which menas: no sex, no kissing, no 'sucking' no masturbation – nothing meaning really nothing relatetd with sex. His flat mate, Ryan (Paulo Costanzo), can't believe this and tells it everyone he knows. The next day, there is a website looking for people who want to bet on the day Matt breaks his own rules. Many people are interested in winning this and of course they try to seduce Matt of having sex again... ...
...one day after speaking his vow: Erica (Shannyn Sossamon) is sweet, loveley, nice – to be preciseley: a dream. But Matt can't touch her for the next 39 days... ;-) What I think ------------- Seeing the trailer I was awaiting another strange and meaningless teen movie. Partly, it is a typical film like that. But people are a bit grownup this time and the story is not that bad as we know it from so many teen comedies (like Scary Movie or sth. Like ...

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...done so rather excellently already! 40 Days and 40 Nights was a movie I was warned about by enough people to have little interest in watching at the cinema, but when presented with the opportunity of a freebie I wasn't going to pass it up...although sometimes even 'free' has costs. The cost here was 90+ minutes of mindnumbing boredom and excruciatingly poor entertainment. 40 Days and 40 Nights must easily go down as one of the poorest comedies of ...
...sexual contact or activity for 40 days and 40 nights he will be over her. Bouncing from girl to girl as he has been simply isn't working and this he feels will cure him of his obsession - yeah right! No sex, no kissing, no touching, no fondling, no groping and absolutely no masturbation are the rules he explains to his Catholic priest brother John(Adam Trese) in the confession booth which might leave some guys wondering what else there is to do in ...

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...watched was ‘40 Days and 40 Nights’. We picked it because we had all seen trailers for it and it looked quite good. Plus, comedies are easy to watch and light hearted before settling down for our proper movie. So what’s it all about? Josh Hartnett (The Faculty and The Virgin Suicides) plays Matt, a guy who, months after a split up with a girlfriend realises that his obsession with her is because he always thinks about sex. So ...
...training and after a revelation discusses the idea of celibacy. He decides that he will give up sex for lent hence the title. He sets himself 3 rules. No sex, No sexual play (kissing, tweaking etc) and no masturbation. When his house mate finds out about this he sets up a webpage taking bets on when he will eventually crack. Things are going great for Matt until one day, while doing his laundry, he meets a girl. His perfect girl, Erica, played ...

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...marriage. No sex for 40 days and nights. No pornography, no masturbation, no foreplay, no kissing. Impossible? Maybe. For lent? Perhaps just doable. But for a man, when he falls for the girl of his dreams? Surely no one could. Could they? SYNOPSIS Matt Sullivan (Josh Hartnett) has been off the rails since breaking up with his girlfriend six months ago. Sleeping around with a different girl nearly every night. Never the same way twice. And in ...
...one way to get over her. Giving up sex for Lent. And after speaking to his brother, who is in the Priesthood, ups the ante to giving up everything sexual. To make things worse, his colleagues place bets on when he will cave in. Oh, and advertising it on a porn site, with online betting just makes things even worse for Matt, especially when he finds out. But is it normal to do something like this to yourself? "It goes against nature!..You're gonna ...

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40 Days and 40 Nights, 2002, Rating 15, Run Time 96 Mins Approx The Story: 40 Days and 40 Nights is a film about a boy in his early twenties called Matt who decides to give up sex for lent, why would anyone want to do that? I hear you ask. After the brake up with love of his life Nicole, Matt had been finding it hard to move on emotionally yet physically he has been going from girl to girl. After confessing his sins to his brother who is training ...
...giving up sex for lent; 40 days and 40 nights of no sex, no porn and no masturbation. The film takes us on a journey over those 40 days and we watch how Matt begins to find things getting harder and harder (Literally). To make matters worse his friends and colleagues decide to start running a book on whether he will make to or not, as the money starts to get higher and higher, the more they try to make him fail. Matt also comes across a hurdle of ...

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40 Days & 40 Nights is a comedy starring the gorgeous Josh Hartnett (always a bonus) & he considers himself to be a sex addict. After he splits from his girlfriend Nicole, he begins sleeping with as many people as possible, just sex no strings attached. He then realises that his behaviour isn't healthy & decides to give up sex for lent. That's 40 days & 40 nights with nothing, no touching or anything. Coincidently, a few days after taking his vow ...
...for… no pun intended! 40 Days & 40 Nights is an average run of the mill comedy, there's nothing special or outstanding about it however it is an entertaining film & will keep you watching through to the end even if you are willing it to end! It has some funny moments & there's great chemistry between Josh Hartnett & Sharon Sossamon) but there's nothing really special about this comedy. It's definitely not one of Hartnett's best films & definitely ...

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40 days and 40 nights Running time: 96 minutes Category: comedy Year: 2002 Director: Michael Lehmann Language: English Country: United States Extras: yes Actors: Josh Hartnett as Matt Sullivan Shannyn Sossamon as Erica Sutton Vinessa Shaw as Nicole Paulo Costanzo as Ryan == Story == The movie is about a man named Matt, who cant get over his ex-girlfriend Nicole. Even after 6 months after she broke off, he can’t get another relationship ...
...problem, and decides to go 40 days and nights without having sex with other women. Matt shares this new plan with his friend Ryan, who he shares a apartment with, only Ryan also works at his company! Of course everybody at his work knows the next day and are betting how long it he can last. The first 6 days are without any problem, but then Matt meets a girl, named Erica, while doing the laundry and falls in love with her. They makes plans to see ...

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This is most definitely the worst film of 2002, possibly on my top ten worst films of all time. The basic premise of this film is good, the main character Matt, played by Josh Hartnett, decides to give up sex for lent. Then in true Hollywood style, he meets during this period the woman of his dreams, Erica (Shannyn Sossamon), but deciding that his new-found celibacy is a personal matter he does not tell her. His friends however have other ideas ...
...hold out. Ensue the hilarious consequences… Or so we are told. Unfortunately there are many problems with this film, starting with Mr. Hartnett. He belongs to that breed of Hollywood actors, which are known more for being pretty young things than for their acting ability, and apart from ‘Black Hawk Down’, Hartnett’s acting talents have not really been called upon before. Now if this was just your average rom-com then he would have been fine. However ...

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...to do without sex for 40 days and 40 nights, in a bid to try and force himself into forgetting about Nicole. John explains to Matt that celibacy is not easy. At Matt's work, a dot-com company in San Francisco, they find out about Matt's lent and a pool starts. With it comes the competition and those that want to win try their hardest to make Matt fail. His co-workers try to tempt Matt into having sex with the aid of lesbian kissing and buttocks ...
...put crushed viagra into his drink. However, their boss Jerry (Griffin Dunne) accidentally ends up drinking it instead and goes off to the bathroom to masturbate. I found this film to be quite amusing and original,but i also found the story to be too weak to be stretched out for a whole movie. There is no mistaking that Josh Hartnett is a funny actor so it stays well with the film but you find youself waiting for the next joke rather than how the ...

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I found this film hilarious! Its about a blokes vow of selebisy to try to get over his ex-girlfriend. I no it sounds poor, but when this bloke thinks he is gods gift you just have to like the pain he goes through especially when all he thinks about is his sexual ego and prowess and materialistic view of women as fodder for sex. It begins with Matt (Josh Hartnett) after a long term relationship takes a devastating turn when his uptight girlfriend ...
...(as most blokes would think of first) he turns to sex and having lots of it with a variety of women. unfortunatley for Matt this has a negative response emotionally which makes him long for his ex even more. As his plan has backfired he decides to go to the other extreme and venture into(whisper it)......selebisy! Unknown to him his room mate has started an online bet on which day he will fail which spreads with wild popularity.causing women to ...

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