The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) on Netflix
Andy Stitzer, a 40-year-old stock supervisor, has never had sex. His co-workers learn the secret at a card game and set out to help. Then he meets Trish, a customer.
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Plot summary
Andy Stitzer is 40, shy, and lives alone with his action figures and video games, supervising stock at Smart Tech, an electronics store. During a card game, David, Jay and Cal talk about their past sexual encounters, and the three of them work out that Andy is still a virgin. By the next day the whole store knows, and the boss, Paula, offers to take his virginity herself. Andy nearly quits in humiliation; David talks him into trying again, and the three friends offer conflicting advice. Cal advises confidence and asking women questions, which Andy practices on Beth, a bookstore clerk. He then gets a date with Trish Piedmont, a customer and a mother. Her daughter Marla interrupts their first evening, and Trish suggests they put off sex.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Steve Carell insisted his chest be waxed for real, telling Judd Apatow it would not be funny as a special effect; five cameras covered the scene in one take, and Romany Malco felt sick watching and ran off the set.
- Seth Rogen thought up the line while watching television and compiling clean and dirty jokes, and Kelly Clarkson later told him that Carell shouting her name during the waxing would be "literally the one thing people know me from".
- Universal Pictures shut the production down after the first week, worried that Carell looked like a serial killer and that the footage was not funny; Paul Rudd was criticized for being overweight and the studio disliked Apatow running the film like an independent.
- The store manager Paula was written as a man until Nancy Walls asked Judd Apatow why he did not read Jane Lynch for the part; he rewrote the role for Lynch after her first audition.
- The shoot burned through more than a million feet of film, a total reached on the last day of filming and celebrated with free champagne from Technicolor.
- Romany Malco begged Apatow to cut him out, saying his mother was an ordained minister; Apatow refused, and Malco later found his mother taking her church friends to see it repeatedly while the film brought him work without auditions.
- Fish used in the film died by accident, and the American Humane Association refused to give the production its "no animals were harmed" disclaimer.
SPOILER
Apatow could not find an ending until Garry Shandling told him it mattered to show Andy was having better sex because he was in love, which led to the closing musical number instead of a sex scene.
