Fortysomething
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Actor: Anna Chancellor, Hugh Laurie, Stephen FryAudio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 293 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-04-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Acorn Media
DVD Reviews of Fortysomething
DVD Review: too smart to watch
Summary: 1 Stars
This show is simply awful! I enjoyed Hugh Laurie in House so I thought I'd take a look at his earlier work. From beginning to end, this show will disappoint and annoy you. Hugh's performance is over-the-top in the first episode -- just agonizing to watch. He plays a sex-starved middle-aged man who is whiny, histrionic and prone to hearing voices. The juvenile sexual antics of his children, indifferent and self-focused manner of his wife and crazed outbursts of his co-worker make for some of the worst television I have ever witnessed. I can only hope Hugh was paid well for this show because he gave up every shred of dignity in several scenes (posing idiotically as a muslim woman and making unexpected chicken noises as examples). The series lacks any depth and is so persistently immersed in the sexual escapades of various characters to be pathetic and boring. If you have any moral values, you will cringe at the careless way relationships are portrayed. It is the lowest form of entertainment and rightly resulted in not being renewed for a 2nd season.DVD Review: Great fun
Summary: 5 Stars
I love it, the tv series is really funny, Hugh Laurie and Anna Chancellor are wonderful actors, their performances were excelent and this is a good way to face reality for some couples, it can help to face reality to couples and figure out the stage of live in which they are. I really reccomend it to have fun. DVD Review: Fun to Watch Hugh Laurie
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are a Hugh Laurie fan, then you have to see this series. It is fun to watch and is a smart show. I had rented the DVD's but after I saw the entire series, I knew that I had to own it so that I could watch it again and again. Hugh Laurie is amazing and the supporting cast is hilarious. I would recoommend this to anyone. DVD Review: Good for hard-core Hugh Laurie fans
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this because I'm a fan of both Hugh Laurie and Anna Chancellor and thought it might be fun to see them in something together. The series wasn't *bad*, exactly, but it was at best average, and I'm not surprised it wasn't renewed. The cast did a good job trying to make the characters three-dimensional, but, unfortunately, most of the show's running themes were somewhat juvenile and cliched. All in all a mixed bag.DVD Review: A true gem for fans of Hugh Laurie
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a long time fan of Hugh Laurie, and in my endeavors to try and collect everything I can possibly find that he's been in, I stumbled across this 2 DVD set. I am so happy I bought it! It is absolutely brilliant; Hugh's character, Paul, is somewhat of a cross between House and Wooster. I simply adore this show; the first episode in particular is truly hilarious: one of the many high points is when two of Paul's adult sons are fighting over a girl and Paul orders them to go to their rooms. Sex is a major theme throughout the series; one of the running jokes is that Paul can't remember the last time he and his wife have made love while his sons spend most of their time fighting over a pair of sisters. In spite of the sexual elements, I found the show to be refreshingly tasteful, especially compared to the majority of American shows. Further more, its obvious, at least in my opinion, that in spite of their problems, Paul and his wife were still quite devoted to one another. I'm sorry to say that I'm probably not explaining this show very well, but I can assure you that this is one of the best dvd purchases I've made in a very long time. If you like Hugh Laurie even a little, this is a must own.
Description of Fortysomething
A man and his marriage on the verge of a hilarious meltdownHow do you know when you're having a midlife crisis? Maybe it's when you can't remember exactly where your wife works - or whether she works at all. Or when your children have a more active sex life than you do. Or maybe it's when you start to hear the unspoken thoughts inside other people's heads.
Hugh Laurie (House) stars as Paul Slippery, an anxiety-ridden British doctor suffering from all those symptoms and more. His wife (Anna Chancellor, Four Weddings and a Funeral) has embarked on a new career and perhaps an extramarital affair or two. His three oversexed sons mock him without mercy. And at work he's tangled in red tape and tormented by a flaky colleague.
Guest stars include Stephen Fry, Laurie's partner-in-comedy from shows such as A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Jeeves and Wooster, and Blackadder. With its delightful cast and zany repartee, Fortysomething turns the fears and foibles of middle age into high comedy of the kookiest kind.
Fortysomething, starring the ever-engaging Hugh Laurie (House M.D., Jeeves and Wooster), is far more intriguing and peculiar than its generic title suggests. Paul Slippery (Laurie) wakes up one morning and can't remember the last time he had sex with his wife Estelle (the lovely Anna Chancellor, finally getting a sympathetic role after years of being the woman no one likes in Pride & Prejudice and Four Weddings and a Funeral). Paul's midlife crisis takes forms both fantastic (he thinks he can hear his wife's thoughts) and prosaic (he's baffled by the romantic entanglements of his three sons, two of whom keep trading partners with a pair of vivacious sisters). Estelle, for her part, is anxious about returning to work again after many years as a mother and housewife. One of Paul's coworkers tries to lure Estelle into an affair and Paul finds himself experimenting with herbal aphrodisiacs and dressing in an Islamic chador to get into an woman-only seminar. This tale of middle-age frustration skirts cliche but is rescued by off-kilter humor, whimsical digressions, a superb supporting cast, and smart writing, but above all by the rapport between Laurie and Chancellor. The warm yet combative chemistry between these two is perfectly suited to a couple who haven't fallen out of love but have lost their spark. A few plot elements of Fortysomething go awry--when Estelle tries to arrange a reunion with old friends and Paul thinks she's having an affair, the episode never quite transcends the overfamiliarity of the setup. But by the end, you'll be sorry to lose the company of this charming family. Laurie also directed three of the series' six episodes. --Bret Fetzer
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