Failure to Launch
Promotional poster for Failure to Launch
Directed by	Tom Dey
Produced by	Scott Rudin
Written by	Tom J. Astle Matt Ember
Starring	Matthew McConaughey Sarah Jessica Parker Kathy Bates Zooey Deschanel Justin Bartha Bradley Cooper Terry Bradshaw
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	March 10, 2006
Running time	97 Minutes
Language	English
Budget	$50 million
IMDb profile

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• Tagline: To leave the nest, some men just need a little push.

Plot

Tripp (Matthew McConaughey) is a seemingly successful 35-year-old boat broker, but he still lives with his father Al (Terry Bradshaw) and his mother Sue (Kathy Bates). Whenever Tripp feels a relationship with a woman is getting too serious, he lets her find out he still lives with his parents. Usually this is so off-putting for the woman that she breaks up. Matthew McConaugheys mugshot Matthew David McConaughey (born November 4, 1969) is an American actor. ... Terry Paxton Bradshaw (born September 2, 1948) is a former American football quarterback with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League (NFL). ... Kathy Bates (right) with Frances Conroy in Six Feet Under. ...

Paula (Sarah Jessica Parker) is an "interventionist" who is hired by parents of grown men still living at home to get the children to move out of the house by making them fall for her and plan to live together. After they move out, she breaks up with them. Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965) is an internationally recognized Golden Globe and Emmy-winning Jewish American actress, with a portfolio of television, movie, and theatre performances. ...

Al and Sue hire Paula to make Tripp leave home. However, Paula really falls in love with Tripp. Tripp finds out that Paula was hired and this causes him to break up with her and finally leave home.

Kit (Zooey Deschanel) is Paula's best friend and roommate. Ace (Justin Bartha) and Demo (Bradley Cooper) are Tripp's similarly slacker buddies. Tripp also hangs out with Jeffrey (Tyrell Jackson Williams), a young boy. Tripp was going to marry Jeffrey's mother in the past, but she died. Deschanel as Trillian in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (2005) Zooey Claire Deschanel (born January 17, 1980) is an American actress. ... Reilly Poole: Albuquerque! See I can do it to! Snorkel! ... Bradley Cooper (born January 5, 1975, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), is a film, stage, and television actor. ...

These friends help Tripp and Paula to make up by locking them up together in Ace's house. Many cameras broadcast images through the internet. Ace, Demo, and Kit watch the images in a cafe, first on a laptop, then on a large wall screen, so that other clients of the café can follow everything too. Tripp's parents watch the images at home with Jeffrey, until the images get "x-rated", then Jeffrey is told to play outside.

Subplots:

• Al likes being nude at home and practises that after Tripp no longer lives in his house. Sue does not like him to do that throughout the house; therefore, as a compromise, he restricts the nudity to one room, which the couple calls the "naked room".
• At first Sue does not mind Tripp living in the house, also because he acts as a buffer when Al is moody or acting weird.
• Kit hates the sound of a mockingbird outside her window. She tries to buy a gun to shoot it, but the salesman thinks she is too unbalanced. Ace has a multi-stroke pneumatic airgun and helps her. By pumping only twice Ace thinks the shot is so weak the bird will not be harmed, and just flee. However, Kit has pumped more and the bird is almost killed. They save its life with cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

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Box office

In its opening weekend, the film grossed a total of $24,6 million, ranking first in the United States box office results for that weekend. As of April 23, 2006, the film has grossed a total of 85,6 million dollars in the United States box office, and € 539.007 in The Netherlands. ^[1] The term box office can refer to either: A place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to a venue The amount of business a particular production, such as a movie or theatre show, does. ... The euro (€; ISO 4217 code EUR) is the currency of twelve European Union member states: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. ... The Netherlands (Dutch: Nederland) is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Dutch: Koninkrijk der Nederlanden). ...

References

1. ^ Boxoffice NL

External Links

• Failure to Launch Official Website
• Failure to Launch at The Internet Movie Database
• New York Newsday (March 8, 2006): Sarah Jessica Parker interview