Sex Tape (DVD)

Sex Tape is a 2014 American sex comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. It was written by Jason Segel, Nicholas Stoller, and Kate Angelo and stars Segel, Cameron Diaz, Rob Corddry, Ellie Kemper, and Rob Lowe. Its story follows a married couple who make a sex tape to spice up their relationship only to wake up the next morning to find that it has gone missing. This sparks a frantic search in an attempt to find it.

The film was produced by Columbia Pictures and was released on July 18, 2014. It grossed $14.6 million in its opening weekend and $126.1 million worldwide, against a budget of $40 million. It received generally negative reviews.

Plot

Jay and Annie Hargrove are a married couple, who, after having two kids, have sex at every opportunity. After he struggles to get an erection, she suggests making a sex tape. They film themselves having sex in every position listed in The Joy of Sex.

When done, Annie asks Jay to delete the recording, which they hate, but he ends up instead inadvertently synchronizing the video to several iPads the couple had given away over time. After failing to get it out of the cloud, they set out to get back all of the gifted iPads, leading to a series of awkward encounters and close calls.

After collecting the iPads and deleting the videos, their friend s son, Howard, threatens to upload a copy of their sex tape to YouPorn unless they give him $25,000. After failing to get the money, they break into the YouPorn headquarters and begin to destroy their web servers. Their plan is quickly thwarted when an alarm sounds. The owner and his guards confront them and threaten to call the police, but agree not to do so in exchange for $15,000 to cover the damage. He also removes their video and explains that all they had to do to have a video removed was send him an e-mail request for such removal.

After they have deleted all videos, Howard comes over to the house and gives Jay the only existing copy of the video on a USB flash drive in exchange for being allowed to hang out with their son, Clive, since he is his only friend.

As the film comes to a close, Jay and Annie decide to watch the video once themselves. Afterwards, they take the USB flash drive containing the video and go outside to smash it with a hammer, blend it, burn it with fire, and bury the remains.

Cast

• Cameron Diaz as Annie Hargrove
• Jason Segel as Jay Hargrove
• Rob Corddry as Robby Thompson
• Ellie Kemper as Tess Thompson
• Rob Lowe as Hank Rosenbaum, Annie s boss
• Harrison Holzer as Howard
• Nat Faxon as Max
• Nancy Lenehan as Linda
• Randall Park as Edward
• Jack Black (uncredited cameo) as Lamont, the owner of YouPorn
• Jolene Blalock as Catalina, the wife of the owner of YouPorn
• Dave Gruber Allen as Mailman
• Kumail Nanjiani as Punit
• Artemis Pebdani as Kia

Production

Development

Sony Pictures acquired the script in June 2011, which was based on an original story created by Kate Angelo. Nicholas Stoller was in early talks to direct but eventually backed out with Jake Kasdan instead directing the picture. Before Diaz signed on, Reese Witherspoon, Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Rose Byrne, and Jennifer Garner were all considered for the female lead.

Principal photography began on September 12, 2013, in Newton, Massachusetts. Hank s house is situated in the western Greater Boston suburb of Weston.

Release

On March 17, 2014, the first poster and some photos from the film were released, followed by a red band trailer on April 2, 2014, and a green band trailer on April 24, 2014. On June 5, Sony UK released an international trailer of the film.

On May 30, 2014, the film s release date was pushed up from July 25, 2014 to July 18.

On June 19, a final red band trailer was released, which was attached theatrically with the Melissa McCarthy comedy Tammy.

Indian censorship

The Examining Committee of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) in India rejected its first version of the film. After some changes, they accepted the film and it was released in the country on August 29, 2014.

Box office

At the end of its box office run, Sex Tape earned a gross of $38.5 million in the US and Canada and $87.5 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $126.1 million against a budget of $40 million.

The film was released in 2,457 theaters in North America and earned $1.1 million in its opening Thursday evening showings. In its opening weekend, the film grossed $14.6 million, finishing in fourth behind Dawn of the Planet of the Apes ($36.2 million), as well as newcomers The Purge: Anarchy ($29.8 million) and Planes: Fire & Rescue ($17.5 million).

The film topped the UK box office in its opening weekend with a gross of £1.43 million. It dropped to number 4 in its second week grossing £673,478. The film opened at #1 in markets like Bulgaria, Netherlands, Slovenia in their respective opening weekend. The biggest market in other territories being Germany, United Kingdom, Australia, where the film earned a gross of $12.14 million, $7.14 million and $6.9 million respectively.

Critical response

Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 16% of 157 surveyed reviews gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 4.10/10. The site s critical consensus reads, With neither the conviction to embrace its smutty premise nor enough laughs to function as a worthwhile rom-com, the flaccid Sex Tape suffers from cinematic impotence. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 36 out of 100 based on 36 critics, indicating generally unfavorable reviews . Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of C+ on an A+ to F scale.

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian called the film a timely naughty-but-nice romcom with too few laughs , giving it 2/5 stars.

Accolades

Award	Date of Ceremony	Category	Recipient(s)	Result
Golden Raspberry Awards	February 21, 2015	Worst Actress	Cameron Diaz	Won (also for The Other Woman)
		Worst Screen Combo	Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel	Nominated
		Worst Screenplay	Kate Angelo, Jason Segel, and Nicholas Stoller	Nominated

Condition

New

Actor

Columbia Pictures; Escape Artists Productions, Jason Blumenthal, Llc, Steve Tisch, Todd Black

Publisher

Sony

Published Date

2015-09-22

Age Group

Adult

Rating MPA

R

Recording Studio

Sony

Format

DVD

Brand

Sony

Amazon ASIN

B00LU7K55M

UPC / EAN

043396439795

Year

2014

ReleaseDate

2014-07-18

RuntimeMins

94

RuntimeStr

1h 34min

Awards

Awards, 2 wins & 3 nominations

Directors

Jake Kasdan

Writers

Kate Angelo, Jason Segel, Nicholas Stoller

Stars

Jason Segel, Cameron Diaz, Rob Corddry

Produced by

Todd Black, David J. Bloomfield, Jason Blumenthal, David B. Householter, Jake Kasdan, Melvin Mar, Jason Segel, Steve Tisch, Ben Waisbren

Music by

Michael Andrews

Cinematography by

Tim Suhrstedt

Film Editing by

Steve Edwards, Tara Timpone

Casting By

Anya Colloff, Lisa Lobel, Michael V. Nicolo

Production Design by

Jefferson Sage

Art Direction by

Elliott Glick

Set Decoration by

Kyra Friedman Curcio

Costume Design by

Debra McGuire

Makeup Department

Cheryl Daniels, Robin Fredriksz, Teressa Hill, Nina Paskowitz, Denise Pauly-Hovey, Joanna Raskin, Peter Robb-King, Trish Seeney, Lona Vigi, Marleen Alter, Terri Carter, Gunn Espegard, Lee Gren, Margie Kaklamanos, Jennie Kay Plumb, Clinton Wayne

Production Management

Robin Le Chanu, Dana Robin, Vincent G. Scotti

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Brendan Flaherty, Ali Glasser, Conte Mark Matal, Matt Rebenkoff, Kathryn Francis Tucker

Art Department

Jason Allard, Christopher Analoro, Paula Bird, Lindsay Boffoli, Richard Cambria, Carrie Capizzano, Penelope Cariolo, Sophie Carlhian, Mickey Carter, Kim Codner, Dennis Colvin, Daniel J. Courchaine, Cory Curtin, Mary E. DiCicco, Noah Dubreuil, Bryan Felty, Helen Fooks, Brian Fry, Gershon Ginsburg, Paul W. Gorfine, Bettina Hastie, James D. Hurd, Christopher Johnson, Nathan Alexander Kirk, Michael Krause, James R. LaFazia, Ariella Lauren, Danielle Levesque, Kendra Long, Aram Maranian III, Paul Markovich, James Mazzola, Butch McCarthy, Ryan McPeake, Dudley Merritt, Steve Orfanos, Katrina Parsons, Raymond Petrello, Andrew Poleszak, Sharon Potts, John Pungitore, Dawn Marie Richard, David Rickson, Isabel Riley, Peter Rippe, Adam Roffman, David Rotondo, Timothy Rowcroft, John Ryder, Kenneth Salter, Christopher Sawtelle, Jeffrey Schneider, Richard Sepulveda, Carly Serodio, John Snow, Vyvian B. Stevens, Linda Lee Sutton, Hilary Taillie, Philip Toolin, Jennifer Lynn Tremblay, Cammeron Truesdale, Tricia Turczynski, Cleo Wang

Sound Department

G.W. Brown, Anita Cannella, Yann Delpuech, Mark DeSimone, Kelly Doran, Jeff Gross, Eric Harwood, Scott A. Jennings, Amy Kane, Tateum Kohut, Oleg Kulchytskyi, Barbara Noren, Greg Orloff, John Pritchett, David M. Roberts, Joel Shryack, Paul Stula

Special Effects by

Judson Bell, Adam Bellao, Paul Jaasko, Scott Petrino, Sal Rose, John Ruggieri

Visual Effects by

Kyle Andal, Aaron Beebe, Alyssa Boffoli, E.M. Bowen, Jeremy Brown, Sean Devereaux, Brian Drewes, Robyn Ducharme, Geoff DuQuette, Csaba László Eröss, Cat Rowe Farquharson, Jaime Fortuno-Lavin, Robby Geis, Leighana Ginther, John B. Gray, Julianne Holzschuh, Alan Latteri, Don Libby, Anu Liikkanen, Arnon Manor, Ryan McDermid, Jesse Morrow, Brian Morse, Kyle Raffile, Matthew Redding, Marc D. Rienzo, Greg Rodin, Stephen Schmidt, Joey Sweat, Brian Venisky, Sergio Villegas, Jay Warren, Markus White, Martin Bell, Martin Fischer

Stunts

Joe Bucaro III, Scott Burik, Ann Carton, Paul Marini, John Vincent Mason, Brian Smyj, Shawnna Thibodeau, Hayley Wright

Camera and Electrical Department

Dwayne Barr, Joseph Battista, Woody Bell, Peter Bevan, Malachi Bibel, Peter Boynton, Dave Cambria, Ted Chu, David Conelli, Nathan Coscia, Andrew Degnan, Mike DeGrazzio, Joseph E. Doyle, Jamie Fitzpatrick, Claire Folger, Eric Goddard, Jesse Goldberg, Mike Henry, Christian J. Hollyer, Lawrence Karman, Brendan Keefe, Tom Keenan, Mark Killian, Robert Knowles, Jonathan Kobs, Anthony Kwan, Jules Labarthe, Zachary K. Lazar, Gordon D. Manson, Roger Marbury, Joe McLeish, James R. Mitchell, Frank Montesanto, A. Kyo Moon, Chris Nickerson, Christopher Norris, Melanie Patten, Josh Pressey, David M. Rogers, David C. Romano, Edwin Rubio, Chuck Rudolph, Chris Ryerson, Eric Sagot, Dave Scranton, Matthew Selkirk, Steve Sikora, Peter Stevenson, Jeff Tanger, Darrell Temple, Bill Trautvetter, Frans Wetterings III, Derek Whittington

Casting Department

Melanie Crescenz, Jennifer Dwyer, Ashley Lambert, Kathleen Parker, Angela Peri

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Susanna Brown, Beau Desmond, Dina Dominguez, Yulia Gershenzon, Allison Graziano, Parrish Kennington, Joseph T. Mastrolia, Katrina Mastrolia, Honah Lee Milne, Deborah Newhall, Dianna Reardon, Jennifer Lynn Tremblay

Editorial Department

Mandy Arnold, Hal Cramer, David Croom, Edward Hobson, Dale Jones, Lisa Mozden, Bethany Orlemann, John Persichetti, Morning Star Schott, John St. Laurent, Jeff Stroot, Chris Van Duyn, Nicole Vaskell, Jack Watts, Denise Woodgerd

Location Management

Maria T. Bierniak, Ryan B Cook, Tyler Cox, Derek Cunningham, Benjamin C. Dewey, Timothy J. Gorman, Stephen Hartman, Ted Kim, Kent Matsuoka, Jamie Merz, Joe Piasecki, Michael Justin Ricci, John Whoriskey Jr.

Music Department

Todd Burke, Dan Croll, The Hollywood Studio Symphony, Stephen Kaye, Jonathan Leahy, Alison Rosenfeld Moses, Manish Raval, Tom Wolfe, Gina Zimmitti

Script and Continuity Department

Anne Rapp

Transportation Department

Michael Gwynn, Nathan Hardcastle, Ronald R. Harrison, Lori Hornung, Kevin Kelleher, David Kenney, Chuck Martinez, Michael Menapace, Frank Valle

Additional Crew

Eric Altieri, Joan Altman, Jada Asgar, Stephanie Atkinson, Kirk Baily, Jack Blessing, Maï Boiron, Lacy Boughn, Brina, Christopher Britton, John W. Burke, Brendan Clougherty, Alex Cody, Eden Cohen, Beverly Cole, Paul Conti, Michael Corbett, Nick Costantino, Richard Lee Dalton, Dani Dare, Sasha DeMello, Gleanna Doyle, Timothy DuBois, Samantha Dyer, Ryan Eatherton, Holly Fields, Sarah Fischer, Brendan Flaherty, Ethan Fox, Allie Furlong, Kate Galbraith, Sofia Gomez Garcia, Andrea Giannetti, Jill Hess, Bridget Hoffman, Joyce Hsieh, Dara Iruka, Carly Kaplan, Lisa Kirk, Amanda Klein, Amanda Koh, Melissa Voyagis Langham, Scott Levine, Rebecca Locke, Steve Loff, Jesse Lutz, Yarrow Lutz, Brinton MacFarland, Larry Madrid, Jack McCullough, Scott Menville, Jared Scott Mercier, Adam Milano, Teresa Ann Miller, Abby Mulholland, Juan Pacheco, Devika Parikh, Tim Patterson, Meredith C. Powell, Megan Rees, Sky Salem Robinson, Rick Roesch, Madison Rothschild, Sarah Rummel, Jadon Sand, John Sansone, Erica Schmidt, Anthony M. Scott, Jake Shankle, Katie Silverman, Andrew Somers, Danny Sullivan, Brittany Truett, Michael Ullman, Katie Valovcin, Philip Walton, Dan Watt, Jamie Waxman, Lois Yaroshefsky, Sean Yopchick, Keegan Zall, Kayla Chin, Edward Voccola, Keegan Zall

Thanks

Robert Grieve

Genres

Comedy, Romance

Companies

Columbia Pictures, Media Rights Capital (MRC), LStar Capital

Countries

USA

Languages

English, Ukrainian

ContentRating

R

ImDbRating

5.1

ImDb Rating Votes

112886

Metacritic Rating

36

Short Description

Sex Tape is a 2014 American sex comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. It was written by Jason Segel, Nicholas Stoller, and Kate Angelo and stars Segel, Cameron Diaz, Rob Corddry, Ellie Kemper, and Rob Lowe. Its story follows a married couple who make a sex tape to spice up their relationship only to wake up the next morning to find that it has gone missing. This sparks a frantic search in an attempt to find it.

The film was produced by Columbia Pictures and was released on July 18, 2014. It grossed $14.6 million in its opening weekend and $126.1 million worldwide, against a budget of $40 million. It received generally negative reviews.

Box Office Budget

$40,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office Opening Weekend USA

$14,608,152

Box Office Gross USA

$38,543,473

Box Office Cumulative Worldwide Gross

$126,069,509

Keywords

Sex video,sexual desire,sexuality,ipad,desire