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Good Luck Chuck is a 2007 comedy film starring Jessica Alba and Dane Cook. This movie began filming in June 2006 in Vancouver and Edmonton, with some scenes shot in Los Angeles.
Plot synopsis
Chuck, now in his thirties (Dane Cook) and running a dentist practice in the same building as his best friend Stu (Dan Fogler) who works as a plastic surgeon, Chuck finds himself unable to tell girls he loves them. This leads to an eventual breakup, but soon leads to his ex-girlfriend getting married. At one such wedding, Chuck becomes enamored with Cam Wexler (Jessica Alba), a sometimes clumsy girl who nevertheless appears quite friendly. Chuck tries to ask Cam out on a date, but she gently refuses him. While working at her penguin habitat, Cam accidentally slips and breaks her tooth. Having Chuck's card in hand, she calls him and he agrees to work on her tooth. After the dental treatment, he asks her to go out with him instead of paying him. She's reluctant to go out with him, but she eventually agrees. During the time that Chuck still has eyes for Cam, Stu starts to become convinced that there's something about Chuck's pattern of girls getting married as soon as he has sex with them. This is only compounded when an article on a dating site tells of Chuck's prowess. Stu eventually convinces Chuck to embrace the now many women who visit his practice, arguing that there's nothing better than having a bunch of guilt-free sex. However, after having sex with a bunch of women, Chuck wants to stop and have a serious relationship with Cam. Worried that the curse is real, Stu convinces Chuck to date and sleep with an extremely overweight and ugly woman to see if she'll get married afterwards. Chuck tries to get Stu to date the woman after the deed to see if they get married, hoping that the curse will prove to be false. However, Stu chickens out and only pretends to ask the woman out. This proves to be a problem when he eventually gives in to Cam's advances and has sex with her. Chuck is now convinced that Cam wants to go out with the author of a book about penguins, who Cam has raved about. Chuck attempts to track down the girl who placed the curse on him when they were kids. Now a happily married woman with a child, the former goth girl tells Chuck that the curse wasn't meant to be real. Still convinced that Cam will date and eventually marry the book author, Chuck tries desperately to get Cam's attention and ask her to marry him. His attempts, though, cause Cam to become convinced he's stalking her and she breaks up with him.
Cast
Critical receptionThe film received very negative reviews from critics. As of October 23, 2007 on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, only 2% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 81 reviews.[1] On Metacritic, the film had an average score of 19 out of 100, based on 21 reviews, indicating generally negative reviews.[2] Roger Ebert gave the film 1 out of 4 stars, saying it was "potty-mouthed and brain-damaged."[3] Mark Kermode also threw barbs of a similar nature on his Friday afternoon film review spot on Radio 5 Live with Simon Mayo, condemning the film as a 'grisly, horrible, barfsome American comedy...with this really grotesquely loathsome guy'. Box office performanceThe film was the #2 movie at the U.S. box office in its opening weekend, grossing $13.6 million in 2,612 theaters.[4][5] References
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