I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007) on Netflix
Chuck Levine and Larry Valentine are Brooklyn firefighters and friends. Widowed father Larry needs his children covered by his life insurance, so he asks Chuck to pose as his partner.
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Plot summary
Larry Valentine, a widower raising two children, works at a Brooklyn firehouse alongside Chuck Levine, a bachelor who dates often. Larry pulls Chuck clear when a burned building's floor gives way, and Chuck promises to repay him. A lapse in paperwork after the death of Larry's wife Paula keeps him from naming his children to receive his life insurance, and a representative tells him a new spouse could be named instead. Larry reads about domestic partnerships and asks Chuck to register as his partner. Chuck agrees because he owes Larry his life, and he becomes Larry's primary beneficiary. Investigators soon question the timing of the arrangement.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007)
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- Producer Tom Shadyac had the idea as early as 1999, when it was called I Now Pronounce You Joe and Benny and was announced with Nicolas Cage and Will Smith as the two firemen and Shadyac directing.
- Alexander Payne wrote an early draft and disowned what became of it, saying Adam Sandler took many liberties and "Sandler-ized" the film; at one point Payne did not want his name attached to the project.
- The producers of the Australian comedy Strange Bedfellows, released three years earlier, went to law over 100 similar plot points. They withdrew the claim in April 2008 after being shown an early draft of Chuck & Larry that predated their own film.
