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Long Shot (DVD)

Long Shot is a 2019 American romantic comedy film directed by Jonathan Levine and written by Dan Sterling and Liz Hannah. The plot follows a journalist (Seth Rogen) who reunites with his former babysitter (Charlize Theron), now the United States Secretary of State. O Shea Jackson Jr., Andy Serkis, June Diane Raphael, Bob Odenkirk and Alexander Skarsgård also star.

The film had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 9, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on May 3, 2019 by Lionsgate. It received generally positive reviews and praise for the chemistry between Rogen and Theron, but underperformed at the box office.


Plot

U.S. Secretary of State Charlotte Field learns from President Chambers, a former television actor, that he does not plan on running for a second term as he is trying to break into the movie industry. Seeing an opportunity, she convinces him to endorse her as a potential presidential candidate.

Meanwhile, New York City journalist Fred Flarsky learns that the newspaper he works for has been bought by Parker Wembley, a wealthy media mogul whose politics directly oppose Fred s. Furious, he promptly quits but cannot find another job. Depressed, he turns to his more successful best friend Lance, who takes him to a charity fundraising event where Boyz II Men are performing. Coincidentally, Charlotte is also there. She and Fred recognize each other, as she was his babysitter and secret crush when they were young. While they catch up, Wembley interrupts them to plan a meeting with Charlotte, leading Fred to loudly condemn Wembley before he storms off and falls down a flight of stairs in front of everyone.

Charlotte reads some of Fred s columns and decides to hire him as a speechwriter, over the protests of her chief of staff, Maggie. Fred voices his skepticism of Charlotte s true commitment to important issues, but takes the job. At a world leaders summit, Charlotte is forced to revise a speech about an environmental campaign to appease industrialists. When Fred calls her out on abandoning her morals (threatening to quit then and there if she goes through with the changed speech), she changes her mind and gives the original speech, which is enthusiastically received.

As the two continue to spend time together under the pretext of Fred learning more about Charlotte for his writing, they grow closer. When they survive a revolution in Manila, they begin a relationship. When Maggie finds out, she warns Charlotte and Fred that the public will never accept them as a couple. When Chambers, under pressure from Wembley, orders Charlotte to remove her plans to preserve the trees, she lets off steam by getting high on ecstasy with Fred. A hostage crisis occurs and, still under the drug s influence, Charlotte has a surprisingly frank talk with the captors and frees the hostage.

Even though the incident increases Charlotte s approval rating, Chambers is livid when she chooses to ignore his orders and call him out. He confronts her in his office alongside Wembley, who has a vested interest in removing the trees as part of his plan. The two blackmail her with a hacked video from Fred s webcam. The hacked video depicts Fred discussing his and Charlotte s relationship and Fred further masturbating to a video of one of her speeches, the hacked video culminating in Fred ejaculating on his own face. Charlotte shows Fred the hacked video and informs him that she has agreed to the ultimatum, and that she wants to introduce him and their relationship publicly once his image is cleaned up. Disappointed and unwilling to change, he refuses and they break up.

Back in New York, Fred talks with Lance. Lance comes out to Fred as a Republican and a Christian. Fred s reaction is initially racist, not believing that African Americans can be Republican, and assuming that the only reason Lance wears a cross is as a black cultural symbol. Lance tells him that he has been too stubborn with his principles and refusal to consider other people s needs and opinions. Fred decides to accede to Charlotte s ideas.

However, during her announcement to run for president in 2020, Charlotte changes her mind and opts for her original plan, also revealing the blackmail from Wembley and Chambers and describing the content of the video before its release. The video is released and Fred is nicknamed cum guy by the news media. Fred searches for Charlotte and finds her waiting at his apartment. They admit that they love each other, and meet the press outside where Charlotte introduces Fred as her boyfriend, with the public surprisingly being supportive of them. In 2021, the couple marry and Charlotte is sworn in as the first female president with Fred as First Mister , him having taken her last name.


Cast

  • Seth Rogen as Fred Flarsky, an unemployed journalist Braxton Herda as Young Fred
  • Braxton Herda as Young Fred
  • Charlize Theron as Charlotte Field, the U.S. Secretary of State Aviva Mongillo as Young Charlotte
  • Aviva Mongillo as Young Charlotte
  • O Shea Jackson Jr. as Lance, Fred s best friend
  • Andy Serkis as Parker Wembley, an international media mogul
  • June Diane Raphael as Maggie Millikin, one of Field s two key staffers
  • Bob Odenkirk as President Chambers, the President of the United States and a former television actor
  • Alexander Skarsgård as James Steward, the Prime Minister of Canada
  • Ravi Patel as Tom, one of Field s two key staffers
  • Randall Park as Flarsky s boss
  • Tristan D. Lalla as Agent M, Field s bodyguard
  • James Saito as Minister Kishido
  • Lisa Kudrow as Katherine, the head of Field s polling team
  • Kurt Braunohler as Wembley News Anchor #1
  • Paul Scheer as Wembley News Anchor #2
  • Claudia O Doherty as Wembley News Anchor #3
  • Boyz II Men as themselves
  • Lil Yachty as himself

Production

Development

Screenwriter Dan Sterling, who around the early 2010s was working for several TV shows, decided to take a break from that field and wanted to pursue a screenwriting career. The script, then titled Flarsky, described by producer Evan Goldberg as a romantic comedy in the vein of Pretty Woman , had been floating around at Point Grey Pictures since its formation, at the time of production on The Green Hornet. Seth Rogen loved the script and wanted to make the film with Charlize Theron; according to him, it took about 7 years to get popular enough to work with her . Theron eventually agreed to do the film due to her eagerness to work with Rogen. Not only did Theron star and produce the movie, but she also helped out Sterling touch up on her character Charlotte. When director Jonathan Levine came on board as director, he wanted to make a film as a callback to romantic comedies of the 1980s, like Tootsie and When Harry Met Sally.... Since the initial draft of the script was written in the early 2010s and the film deals primarily with current political issues, the crew brought in The Post screenwriter Liz Hannah, whose first Hollywood job was at Theron s production company Denver and Delilah Productions, to help polish up and update the script. They even brought in other consultants to help give more authenticity to the script.

Pre-production

In February 2017, the project was announced, with Rogen and Theron attached to star and Levine directing. Rogen was reportedly paid $15 million. In October 2017, O Shea Jackson Jr. was cast. In November 2017, June Diane Raphael, Ravi Patel, Andy Serkis, Alexander Skarsgård, and Randall Park joined the cast as filming commenced in Montreal.

Filming

Scenes were filmed in Plaza de la Trinidad in Cartagena, Colombia in the end of January 2018. In January 2019, it was announced the film had been retitled Long Shot.

Music

Marco Beltrami and Miles Hankins composed the film s score, having previously worked with the director on The Night Before. Lionsgate Records has released the soundtrack.


Release

The film had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 9, 2019. Originally slated to be released on February 8, 2019, following highly positive test screenings it was pushed back to June 7, 2019, in order to be positioned as a summer tentpole. It was then moved up to its eventual date of May 3, 2019.

While promoting the movie in France on the hit TV show Touche pas à mon poste!, Charlize Theron was shocked when the host Cyril Hanouna gave a friendly kiss to the female translator, not knowing that Hanouna kisses all his staff and collaborators, both men and women, on camera on a daily basis and that kissing is not frowned upon in France as it is in the US. The event briefly turned viral in France, where Hanouna is a household name. The vast majority of viewers defended Hanouna, as well as the cast of the show who felt Theron had totally misinterpreted his intentions. A few days later, the translator also said that she did not feel the kiss was inappropriate. Hanouna later swore never to invite Theron again.


Reception

Box office

Long Shot grossed $30.3 million in the United States and Canada, and $22.5 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $52.9 million.

In the United States and Canada, Long Shot was released alongside The Intruder and UglyDolls, and was projected to gross $9–16 million from 3,230 theaters in its opening weekend. The film made $3.6 million on its first day, including $660,000 from Thursday night previews. It went on to debut to $9.7 million, finishing third. The film held well in its second weekend, grossing $6.1 million and finishing in fifth. The Ringer reported that the film underperformed at the box office, which it partially attributed to its premiere one week after the blockbuster success of Avengers: Endgame.

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 81% based on 302 reviews and an average rating of 7.1/10. The website s critical consensus reads, A sharp and deceptively layered comedy that s further fueled by the odd couple chemistry of its leads, this Long Shot largely hits its marks. On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 67 out of 100, based on 45 critics, indicating generally favorable reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of B on an A+ to F scale, while those at PostTrak gave it 3.5 out of 5 stars and a 57% definite recommend.

John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter called it Very funny whatever you think of its more old-fashioned notions, the picture will charm many viewers who can set implausibility aside for a while. Variety s Peter Debruge described the film as: More creepy than romantic, more chauvinist than empowered — and in all fairness, funnier and more entertaining than any comedy in months — Long Shot serves up the far-fetched wish-fulfillment fantasy of how, for one lucky underdog, pursuing your first love could wind up making you first man.


Condition

New

Actor

Charlize Theron, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, Seth Rogen

Publisher

Lionsgate

Published Date

2019-07-30

Rating MPA

R

Recording Length

125

Recording Studio

Lionsgate

Format

DVD

Brand

Summit Inc/Lionsgate

Age Group

Adult

Amazon ASIN

B07QRN3W78

UPC / EAN

031398304845

Model

B07QRN3W78

Year

2019

ReleaseDate

2019-05-03

RuntimeMins

125

RuntimeStr

2h 5min

Awards

Awards, 5 wins & 13 nominations

Directors

Jonathan Levine

Writers

Dan Sterling, Liz Hannah

Stars

Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen, June Diane Raphael

Produced by

A.J. Dix, Joseph Drake, Evan Goldberg, Barbara A. Hall, Nathan Kahane, Beth Kono, Kelli Konop, Jonathan Levine, Alex McAtee, Jonathan McCoy, John Powers Middleton, Seth Rogen, Dan Sterling, Charlize Theron, James Weaver, Erin Westerman

Music by

Marco Beltrami, Miles Hankins

Cinematography by

Yves Bélanger

Film Editing by

Melissa Bretherton, Evan Henke

Casting By

Francine Maisler

Production Design by

Kalina Ivanov

Art Direction by

Caroline Alder, Camila Arocha, Sharon Davis, Donna Noonan, Zoe Sakellaropoulo

Set Decoration by

Manon Lemay, Melissa Villegas Solórzano

Costume Design by

Mary E. Vogt

Makeup Department

Enzo Angileri, Caroline Aquin, Mathieu Baptista, Marie-Josée Beaudet, Marianne Bobet, Annick Chartier, Melissa Fafard, Laurie Frigon, Bruno Gatien, Xiao Yun Hu, Félix Larivière, Jonathan Lavallée, Catherine Lavoie, Nandi Marocco, Colette Martel, Jean-Manuel Medina, Maria Camila Mejia, Silvano Mercado Vilches, Kathya Portillo, Ghislaine Sant, Juanita Santamaria, Mario St-Louis, Marie-Lise Taupier, Sabrina Trudel, Carolina Uribe, Julie Brisebois, Eli Girard, Christophe Giraud, Neill Gorton, Morgan Kimber, Nathalie Legault, Chris Lyons, Marcelo Padovani, Tammy-Lou Pate, Sebastien R G Romero, Liliane Saad, Jean Scarabin, Gladys Simard

Production Management

Chantal Desgagné, Nancy Kirhoffer, Christina Kontos, Sharon Lopez, Mariann Petit, Claudia Roca Bravo, Daniel Ross, Pamela Toro Moreno

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Ariane Collman, Alix Croquet, Buck Deachman, Martin Doepner, Marlee Gruss-Neidhardt, Fanny Hudon, Darren Kotania, Daniel Lacroix, Matthew Maggi, Gabrielle Mankiewicz, Ela Miszkurka, Justin Muller, Florence Ortiz, Shanna Roberts-Salée, Tanya van Blokland, Isabel Vargas, Javier Zamorano

Art Department

Charles-André Bertrand, Emmanuelle Boies, Michel Brochu, Sarah Rose Buchanan, Hélène Camirand, Ma. Alejandra Cañón, Martin Chalifoux, Cyrille Chatelain, Luane Costa, Marc C. De Léry, Louis Frederic Denomme, Louis Depelteau, Shelby Golemic, Anabelle Gosselin, Andrés Gurisatti, Daniel Hamelin, Jamie Knutson, Marc Labrie, Sarah Lachance, Claudie-Ann Landry, Jean-Maxime Landry, Tyler Lavoie, Ann Leduc, Jose Letourneau, Andre Nicolas Malouf, David Mongeau, Julie Montplaisir, Marie-Hélène Nardini, Sebastien Perron, Marie-Pierre Poirier, Diego Quecano, Benoit Robitaille, Claudia Paipa Rodriguez, Georges Samuel, Radia Slaimi, Jocelyne St-Pierre, Simon Theberge, Marius Tremblay, Ismael Tremblay-Desgagnes, Amy Lynn Umezu, Yanick Veilleux

Sound Department

Chantal Allard, Jessica Arkoff, Michael Babcock, Michel Charron, Jeremy B. Davis, Frankie Fiore, Detlef Halaski, Shaughnessy Hare, Scott Heming, Justin Herman, Marti D. Humphrey, Ando Johnson, Michel Lecoufle, Howard London, Gerry Long, Louis Marion, Leonel Pedraza, Leonel Pedraza, Paul Pirola, Natalia Paola Reyes, Diego Rodríguez, Branden Spencer, Antoine Viot, David A. Cobb

Special Effects by

Marcello Bezina, Frederique Dumont, Mario Dumont, Chady Ghorayeb, Riccardo Serraiocco, Eliot W. Smith, Luc Therrien

Visual Effects by

Michael Beaulac, Jeremy Beaulne, Simon Beaupré, Amine Ben Abdallah, Didier Bertrand, Kenneth Caines, Daniel Coupal, David Dallaire, Camille Dao, Maxime Desforges, Marie-Annick Desrosiers, Eirinn Disbrow, Valérie Dugas, Jean-François Ferland, Frédéric Filiatrault, Brendan Fitzgerald, Thomas F. Ford IV, Sophie Fournier, Jessica Francoeur-Ducharme, Ismaël Gros, Brian Houlihan, Bryan Hsu, Alain Lachance, Marie-Claude Lafontaine, Karine Lambert, Nathalie Lanthier, Maxime Lapointe, Laurence Lavoie, Patrick Lemay-Hardy, Wesley Lemieux, Thomas Lhomme-Sorel, Jean-Philippe Lucas, Serge Maheux, Julien Maisonneuve, John Mangia, Alejandro Monzon, Pierre-David Myles, Catherine Nadeau, Andris Pakalns, Jérémy Paquet, Maxime Pearson, Guillaume Piché, David Pomerleau, Olivier Péloquin, Charles Richer, Nooreldin Reda Salama, Randy Santandrea, Dan Schrecker, David Tanguay, William Tayssier, Rachel Terrien, Timothy Ward, Yi Zhang, Daniel Coupal

Stunts

Abdul Ayoola, Anne Bergstedt, Martin Boiteau, Jim Dunn, Jean Frenette, Tyler Hall, Patrick Kerton, Orphée Ladouceur-Nguyen, Héléna Laliberté, André Laperrière, Stéphane Lefebvre, Jake Lewis, David McKeown, Martin Williams, Agnieshka Wnorowska

Camera and Electrical Department

Hector Alvarez, Olivia Aravecchia, Luis Arias, Jean-Christophe Asselin, Charles-Antoine Auger, Jonathan Barbeau, Juan Manuel Barreto, Patrick Beaulac, Marie-Julie Besse, Philippe Bossé, Maxime Boutin, Raphaelle Brault, Christian Caperaa, Charles Castonguay, Felipe Cortes, Laura Camila Cortés, Sebastien Courteau, Simon Desrochers-Laplante, Bruno Ferland, Carlos Andrés Flórez, Martin Gagnon, Julie Garceau, Harold Alberto Garzón, Juan Camilo Gil, Chloé Giroux-lachance, Felice Grana, Hernan Jaramillo, Christian Lalonde, Martin Larouche, Isabelle Lauzon, Nicolas Lesage, Steve Magnan, Alfonso Maiorana, Camilo Meneses, Bastien Meyer, Ian Mongrain, Shaun Nagorny, Alex Perez, Joël Poisson, Dominic Prevost, Martin Renaud, Emmanuelle Royer Laplante, Terry Stacey, Lena Stolarska, Marc-Antoine Theriault-Daunais, Julian Vergara, Guillaume Vidal, Mauricio Vidal, Simon Vincent

Casting Department

Maily Orozco, Janine Parkinson, Lauren Richer, Molly Rose, Katelyn Semer, Randi Wells

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Jenny Arango, Iris Bélanger, Chrissy Callan, CarolinaSoto, Jacinthe Demers, Jean-François Desjardins, Catalina Giangrandi, Sara Eva Gonzalez, Lynda Goode, Catherine Gélinas, Myriam Hanahem, Marcella Lepore, Véronique Marchessault, Erick Martinez, Ernesto Martinez

Editorial Department

Julien Archambault, Jonathan Cyga, Daniel Gabbe, Maxine Gervais, Elizabeth Hitt, Bill Holley, Erik Kaufmann, Lp Langlois, Vincent Manierre, Ken O Keefe, Jeff Pantaleo, Alexander Soltis, Trevor White, Dan Williams

Location Management

Isabelle Champeau, Mark Chikhani, Carlos Vélez García, Juliana Muñoz, Paul Naiman, Federico Romero, Nicolas Sabourin

Music Department

Sean Barrett, Allegra De Souza, Jessica Dolinger, F.A.M.E. S. Project, Gabe Hilfer, Benjamin Hoff, Tyson Lozensky, Whitney Pilzer, Jim Schultz, Jamie Thierman

Production Department

Rodrigo Guerrero

Script and Continuity Department

Lorette Leblanc

Transportation Department

Juan Sebastían Acevedo, Fesar Alvear, Claiver Arellano, Alain Bolduc, Jonathan Boyer, Armando Calvo, Karim El Fassi, Carlos Galfano, Denis Giroux, Alexandre Juaneda, Daniel Matthews, Doris McFern, Charles Prud homme, Jenny Roa Garcia, Bernard Sills, Spiro Tsovras, Ian Vandewalle, Jerome Wheeler, Franco Zoccali

Additional Crew

Cody Airth-Fisher, Loreli Alba, Fernando Rios Aristizabal, Maribel Ascencio, Stephanie Aubin, Mary-Anne Awori, Lauren Baker, Michael Beaudin, Ivan Bess, Sandra Borromeo, Veronique Bouedo, Victoria Burchinow, Joanne Byon, Laurence Chaillez, Corentin Chaudet, Mia-Kristen Cherry, Vincent Colpron, Tatiana Congote, Genevieve Cote, Tucker Cowan, Jeremy Cox, Mike Davis, Jan de Calbiac, Puelo Deir, Nestor Duque, Amir Fatollahi, Jon Finer, Brenda Finster, Simone Fortin-Bélanger, Raphael Gagnon, Mathieu Gauvin, Gabriella Grantham, Mathieu R. Grenier, Sabrina-Jasmine Guilbault, Jean-Francois Hall, Malissa Hallenbeck, Elizabeth Hernandez, Jake Huebner, Jean-Patrick Joseph, Alexia Katravas, Nadia Khedaim, Nina Lauren, Jonathan Lecot, Carolina Lee Chan, Marie-Noëlle Legault, Matt Lindquist, Gabriella Ludlow, Matt Maher, Pota Manolakos, Casey McDonough, Camila Mejia, Jonathan Meunier, Veronica Miller, Kevin Moll, John Narvaez, Sofie Norman, Scott O Brien, Omaira Olarte, Julian Orozco, Ivan Peric, Jamie Pimentel, Tudor Pislariu, Paula Rendón, Emmanuelle Royer Laplante, Eloïse T Simard, Shane Tanny, Lise Vigneault, Tyler Voss, Roger Williams, Nicole Zakheim, Corinna Zinsmeyer

Genres

Comedy, Romance

Companies

Summit Entertainment, AG Studios, Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC)

Countries

USA, Canada, Colombia

Languages

English, Swedish, French, Vietnamese, Russian, Hebrew

ContentRating

R

ImDbRating

6.8

ImDb Rating Votes

110964

Metacritic Rating

67

Short Description

Long Shot is a 2019 American romantic comedy film directed by Jonathan Levine and written by Dan Sterling and Liz Hannah. The plot follows a journalist (Seth Rogen) who reunites with his former babysitter (Charlize Theron), now the United States Secretary of State. O Shea Jackson Jr., Andy Serkis, June Diane Raphael, Bob Odenkirk and Alexander Skarsgård also star.

The film had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 9, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on May 3, 2019 by Lionsgate. It received generally positive reviews and praise for the chemistry between Rogen and Theron, but underperformed at the box office.

Box Office Budget

$40,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office Opening Weekend USA

$9,740,064

Box Office Gross USA

$30,316,271

Box Office Cumulative Worldwide Gross

$53,873,809

Keywords

Babysitter,activist,journalist,speechwriter,diplomat