THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN (DVD)

The 40-Year-Old Virgin is a 2005 American romantic comedy film directed by Judd Apatow, who produced the film with Clayton Townsend and Shauna Robertson. It features Steve Carell as the titular 40-year-old virgin Andy, an employee at an electronics store. Paul Rudd, Romany Malco, and Seth Rogen play co-workers who resolve to help him lose his virginity, and Catherine Keener stars as Andy s love interest, Trish.

Watching Carell s performance in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) inspired Apatow to cast him in the lead role for the film, and they wrote The 40-Year-Old Virgin together. It was based on a sketch Carell created with The Second City where a man aged 40 hides a secret. Filming took place in Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley, California, from January to April 2005.

The film was released theatrically in the United States on August 19, 2005, through Universal Pictures. It received positive reviews from critics, with Carell being highlighted for his performance, and grossed over $177 million worldwide on a $26 million budget. He won accolades from the Golden Schmoes Awards and MTV Movie & TV Awards for this role while Keener received awards from the Boston Society of Film Critics and Los Angeles Film Critics Association. The 40-Year-Old Virgin was named by the American Film Institute one of 2005 s Top 10 Films.

Plot

Andy Stitzer is a shy 40-year-old introvert who works as a stock supervisor at electronics store Smart Tech. He gave up trying to have sex after various failed attempts and lives alone in an apartment with a collection of action figures and video games. When a conversation at a poker game with his co-workers David, Jay, and Cal turns to past sexual exploits, they learn that he secretly is still a virgin.

Andy is mortified upon discovering the next day that everyone else at work has learned about the secret, including their boss Paula, who is attracted to him and later privately offers to take his virginity. He almost quits work in humiliation before David consoles him and recommends trying again to have sex. David, Jay, and Cal become determined to help Andy achieve this. They all give differing advice on how to interact with women.

David invites him to join them for a speed dating event and unsuccessfully tries to reconnect with his ex-girlfriend Amy there. Jay drags Andy to various social events, books a painful chest waxing appointment, and sets him up with a prostitute, which all end with embarrassing results. Cal advises Andy to simply be confident and ask women questions instead of talking about himself. He practices this on a bookstore clerk named Beth, who quickly becomes intrigued by him. David gives Andy his pornography collection, encouraging him to masturbate.

Andy eventually gets a date with a customer named Trish Piedmont. At the end of their first date, they almost have sex but are interrupted by her teenage daughter Marla. Trish suggests they postpone having sex, and Andy enthusiastically agrees; they decide to abstain until their twentieth date. Their relationship flourishes over the following weeks. She encourages Andy s dream of starting a business and helps fund it by selling his collectibles. After Marla argues with Trish over wanting birth control, Andy takes her to a group information session at a sexual health clinic, where she is mocked for being a virgin. Andy admits his own virginity to defend her, earning him Marla s respect.

Meanwhile, David suffers an emotional breakdown at work over his obsession with Amy and takes a vow of celibacy, which leads to Paula giving his sales duties to Andy for the day and later promoting him to floor manager due to his high sales quota. As Cal takes on Andy s previous role, he hires a woman named Bernadette to work at the store, hoping to match her with David so he can move on from Amy. After Jay s girlfriend Jill breaks up with him due to his infidelity, he concedes to Andy that sex can ruin a relationship. Following a reconciliation with Jill, Jay later invites Andy and the others to a nightclub to celebrate her pregnancy.

Trish tries to initiate sex with Andy on their twentieth date and becomes upset when he resists. They argue, and Andy leaves to meet his friends at a nightclub. He gets drunk and leaves with Beth to have sex at her apartment. Cal gets David and Bernadette to hook up, while Marla convinces Trish to reconcile with Andy. At Beth s, Andy sobers up and decides to leave without having sex, just as his friends arrive and encourage him to go back to Trish.

Andy returns to his apartment to find Trish waiting for him. She has found David s porn collection; he tries to explain, but she flees in alarm and disgust, fearing Andy may be a sexual deviant. While pursuing her on his bike, Andy collides with her car, flying through the side of a billboard truck. She rushes to his side, and Andy finally confesses that he is a virgin. Trish is relieved and accepting, and they profess their love for each other. They eventually marry in a lavish ceremony with everyone in attendance, having generated roughly $500,000 from the sales of his action figures to pay for it, before having sex for the first time. The film ends with a musical sequence where all the characters sing and dance to Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In .

Cast

• Steve Carell as Andy Stitzer, a shy and introverted man who quit trying to have sex following missed opportunities before meeting Trish. Judd Apatow stated that Andy Stitzer didn t have to be that weird. Everybody has some built-in performance anxiety and for some people, it prevents them from taking risks and they simply stop trying. He added that people would always root for that person to prevail and find love .
• Catherine Keener as Trish Piedmont, the owner of a store that sells items on eBay. She has three daughters and one granddaughter prior to meeting Andy and starting a relationship with him. Keener was eager to take on the role as a change from her previous strong dramatic performances leavened with wry comedy .
• Paul Rudd as David, a lovelorn, self-destructive character that Apatow and Carell specifically wrote with Rudd in mind to portray him.
• Romany Malco as Jay, a womanizer who Malco called probably the biggest freak of the film because he constantly runs around sleeping with all these women without ever making a real, quality connection with anyone .
• Seth Rogen as Cal, one of Andy s co-workers who was written with Rogen in mind. Scott Chitwood deemed him the most adventurous of the group .
• Elizabeth Banks as Beth, a sexually uninhibited bookstore clerk who becomes intrigued with Andy. Banks said she has some outrageous moments, and I realized that I had to prove to them early on in the audition process that I was willing to go that far once filming began.
• Leslie Mann as Nicky, a drunk woman whom Andy once tries to have sex with.
• Jane Lynch as Paula, the boss of David, Jay, Cal, and Andy who offers to take the lattermost s virginity after learning that he has never had sex.

Other cast members include Kat Dennings as Marla Piedmont, Mindy Kaling as Amy, Gerry Bednob as Mooj, Marika Domińczyk as Bernadette, Shelley Malil as Haziz, Mo Collins as Gina, Kimberly Page, Gillian Vigman, and Siena Goines as women attending the speed dating event, Nancy Walls as the health clinic counselor, Cedric Yarbrough, David Koechner, and Jeff Kahn as fathers attending the health clinic, Loren Berman, Nick Lashaway and Julian Foster as boys attending the health clinic, Chelsea Smith as Julia, Erica Vittina Phillips as Jill, Jonah Hill as an eBay customer, Jordan Masterson as Mark, Jazzmun as a prostitute, Miki Mia as the waxing lady, Denise Meyerson as Robin, Michael Bierman as a 16-year-old version of Andy, Lee Weaver as Joe, Kevin Hart, Wayne Federman, Ron Marasco, and Joseph T. Mastrolia as Smart Tech customers, Kate Luyben as a woman who purchases videotapes, Stormy Daniels as a porn star, Shannon Bradley, Brianna Brown, Elizabeth Carey, Elizabeth DeCicco, Hilary Shepard, and Barret Swatek as bar girls, Carla Gallo as a girl who sucks on toes, Laura Bottrell as a college girl, Joseph Nunez as a man who buffs floors, Charlie Hartsock as the speed dating MC, Gloria Helena Jones as Sara, Marisa Guterman as a girl wearing braces, Matthew McKane as a motorist, Miyoko Shimosawa as a waitress, Rose Abdoo, Steve Bannos, and Brooke Hamlin as restaurant customers, Marilyn Dodds Frank as a woman who buys a television, and Loudon Wainwright III as a priest.

Production

The 40-Year-Old Virgin was Judd Apatow s directorial debut. While serving as a producer for the 2004 film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, he got the idea to have a film with Carell in the lead role after watching his performance in that, thinking It would be great to see a Steve Carell movie . Apatow later asked him whether he had any movie ideas, and both men wrote The 40-Year-Old Virgin together after the latter expressed desires to make something about a virgin who was aged 40, basing it off a sketch Carell created while performing with the improv comedy troupe The Second City. Carell did many versions of the sketch, trying out different scenarios where the 40-year-old man is hiding a big secret. Apatow had difficulty coming up with the ending for the film. Garry Shandling suggested it was important to show that Andy was having better sex because he was in love, and instead of directly showing the sex they decided to have Andy sing and have a musical number.

Apatow started casting the film early in the development process and tailored its script to the strengths of the actors. He also produced it for Apatow Productions along with Clayton Townsend and Shauna Robertson. Catherine Keener was the first choice for the female lead. Apatow specifically cast Stormy Daniels because he wanted someone who s really, really comfortable doing nude scenes that were required for the film s plot. A large portion of the dialogue in The 40-Year-Old Virgin was improvised. Keener stated in 2010 that Apatow never really would even say cut and instead would say reload when burning through film due to the improvisation, calling the experience hysterically funny . She also mentioned you had to kind of lose sense of being self-conscious on that movie because it was sort of an all-in in terms of throwing a joke out or even the writer would sit behind the monitors behind the curtain . The production used over a million feet of film, a milestone reached on the last day of filming and celebrated with free champagne from Technicolor SA.

Filming for The 40-Year-Old Virgin started on January 17, 2005, and wrapped on April 1, 2005. The movie was shot in parts of California, including Studio City, Los Angeles, and San Fernando Valley s Ventura Boulevard. Lyle Workman composed the film s score while Jack N. Green and Brent White respectively served as its cinematographer and editor. Production was halted by Universal Pictures after the first week, due to concerns that the physical appearance of Carell s character resembled that of a serial killer, and that the early footage was not funny. Paul Rudd was criticized for being overweight and the studio was unhappy with how Apatow treated the project like an independent film. Apatow initially had a supporting role in mind for Jason Segel that Universal refused to allow. Because of the accidental deaths of fish used in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, the American Humane Association withheld its no animals were harmed... disclaimer.

Seven test screenings were held for the film prior to entering theaters, with each costing approximately $10,000. It was initially considered uncomfortably dirty, and not all that funny before Apatow reduced the amount of pornography shown. Malco once pleaded for him to cut his scenes, fearing what would happen following its release and insisting: My mom is an ordained minister, bro, cut me out of the movie, please. I m serious. This request was declined because Apatow found Malco funny. He was surprised to find out his mother ended up taking all of her church friends to see it, multiple times , and stated The 40-Year-Old Virgin changed my career by leading to more subsequent job offers without prior auditions. Jay was initially conceived as a preppy, fraternity boy before Malco s audition prompted him to be reworked into a streetwise, trash-talking womanizer . He liked how the character actually learns his own life lessons along with Andy and called him the main character s sexual antithesis .

Carell s chest was genuinely waxed for the film, with five cameras set up to capture the scene, which was done in one take. He insisted on having an actual wax, telling Apatow: It won t be as funny if it s mocked up or if it s special effect. You have to see that this is really happening. Malco began to feel sick while watching the waxing and ran away from the set. According to Miki Mia, it took three or four hours to shoot the scene, and she requested that some of the chest hair be trimmed in advance to reduce Carell s pain. Mia noted that only a tiny bit was removed so that it ll look great on camera . His chest was never fully waxed during the filming, and he shaved off all the hair after three weeks. After Carell blurted out Kelly Clarkson s name during the wax, Clarkson told Rogen in 2021 that it would be literally the one thing people know me from regardless of anything else she did. Rogen explained he came up with this idea while seeing her on television as he was compiling a list of clean jokes and dirty jokes to use in the scene.

Release

On August 19, 2005, The 40-Year-Old Virgin first premiered in theaters within the United States. The film opened atop the North American box office, grossing $21,422,815 during the opening weekend, and stayed at number one the following weekend. It grossed a total of $109,449,237 in this market, and $67,929,408 internationally, for a total of $177,378,645 against a budget of $26 million. The film was 25th in global gross, and 19th in the United States that year. It was released in the United Kingdom on September 2, 2005, and topped the nation s box office that weekend. Later that month, the film premiered in Germany, Greece, New Zealand, and Russia with respective openings of $2,195,972, $202,400, $144,666, and $443,428. Elsewhere, it opened with $66,277 in Argentina, $1,608,724 within Australia, $5,451 from Bulgaria, $25,200 in the Czech Republic, $29,884 within Lebanon, $310,280 from the Netherlands, $119,930 in Norway, $133,509 within Poland, $9,091 from Slovakia, $87,535 in South Africa, and $157,386 within Turkey. Upon being distributed in Spain, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand, The 40-Year-Old Virgin also had first-weekend grosses of $874,373, $240,882, $78,099, and $72,800 respectively within these markets.

On December 11, 2005, a version of the film that runs for 133 minutes was released onto DVD under the banner unrated , which is 17 minutes longer than what was shown in theaters. This additional footage consists of more nudity, Andy asking Viagra for help on how to get rid of an erection, another scene featuring a bad encounter from his younger days, fantasies of a porn star, and Jay having a lot more amusing racial banter with Mooj. A 2008 Blu-ray distribution includes the same extended cut along with its theatrical version. For the 100th Anniversary of Universal Pictures, both editions were re-released onto DVD on January 10, 2012. This version also had a similar banner of unrated .

Reception

Initial critical response

With an approval rating of 84% at the end of 2005, Rotten Tomatoes ranked The 40-Year-Old Virgin as the year s Best Reviewed Comedy and added it proves that Steve Carell has the comedic chops to carry a movie and provide a good share of laughs. Ebert and Roeper gave the film a two thumbs up rating. Roger Ebert said, I was surprised by how funny, how sweet, and how wise the movie really is and the more you think about it, the better The 40-Year-Old Virgin gets. The pair gave minor criticisms, with Ebert describing the way she (Catherine Keener as Trish ) empathizes with Andy as almost too sweet to be funny and Richard Roeper saying that the film was too long, and at times extremely frustrating. Roeper later chose the movie as the tenth best of 2005.

The A.V. Club reviewer Nathan Rabin felt Carell made a surprisingly graceful transition to a leading-man role following his performance in Anchorman, and said both of them worked well due to the chemistry and comic chops of their casts. He concluded by praising Carell for instilling a good deal of complexity and sophistication into his affectionate characterization and believed it compensated for a perceived lack of humor in the romance. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the movie an A−, saying that Carell portrays Andy in the most surprising way possible: as a credible human being. Manohla Dargis of The New York Times called the film a charmingly bent comedy, adding that Carell was an essential component for making this film work as well as it does.

Emanuel Levy gave the film a B+ grade, calling it an R-rated comedy superior to Wedding Crashers that has a generous heart and a sweet, almost naive center in spite of the profane language used. While Brian Lowry of Variety believed The 40-Year-Old Virgin was slightly too long and indulges in some juvenile excesses , he also felt it often provoked laughs even when sophomorically homophobic. Rating the movie 3 and a half stars, The Baltimore Sun critic Chris Kaltenbach opened with People see the name of this movie and get defensive. What s wrong with being a virgin? they ask. Absolutely nothing, and that s part of the point of The 40-Year-Old Virgin, probably the most sweet-spirited sex comedy ever made. It s pretty funny, too. He went on to call the lead character endearing and a marvelous comic invention .

Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post is critical of the film but praised Carell for his performance. She wrote Andy remaining steadfastly chaste and genuinely humane was its most surprising aspect and described him as a character of old-fashioned decency in a movie that otherwise flouts it at every turn. It was condemned by Harry Forbes of Catholic News Service as relentlessly vulgar and frequently offensive , and by political columnist Cal Thomas for being an example of societal decline in regards to self-control or what was once known as purity.

Retrospective commentary

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 85% based on 189 reviews, with an average rating of 7.20/10. The site s critical consensus reads, Steve Carell s first star turn scores big with a tender treatment of its titular underdog, using raunchy but realistically funny comedy to connect with adult audiences. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 73 out of 100 based on 35 critics, indicating generally favorable reviews . Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of A− on an A+ to F scale.

For the film s 10th anniversary, Erik Abriss from Complex and Josh Wigler of MTV News both wrote pieces asserting it remained enjoyable. The former called this the best romantic comedy of the 2000s as well as the most influential for shifting the comedic zeitgeist from inane to intellectual, from screwball to sensitive, from hyper-masculine to hilariously honest while the latter compiled a list of reasons it Still Cracks You Up 10 Years Later , with the first being how the film marked the beginning of a modern comedy age . Writing for The Atlantic on the same day, Megan Garber felt The 40-Year-Old Virgin holds up and might have become better over time. She wrote that the movie launched (almost) a thousand bromantic comedies , put Apatow on the mainstream map , and made him a Hollywood king (and, much more interestingly, queen)-maker . Garber added it raises questions on how people become adults and established how whatever makes an adult now, it isn t, in general, the thing that has defined adulthood for so much of human history: the having of sex. Chris Serico of Today said this has continued to resonate among comedy fans, and served as a breakthrough movie for its director, Judd Apatow, and his co-writer/star, Steve Carell a decade after being released. He went onto praise Carell s performance and stated it took his career and the movie to the next level .

A 2018 article from Detroit Free Press contributor Julie Hinds noted that The 40-Year-Old Virgin was Michigan s favorite romantic comedy , and called that ranking a fine choice when Carell s character has a heart of gold and eventually lands in a solid, committed relationship . 15 years after the film s premiere, NME writer Beth Webb praised its use of a mature virgin for a protagonist who does not feel sex-starved. She called that aspect a milestone for cinema s muddled relationship with virginity, in which women have since taken control of their virtue on screen, while men remain largely underrepresented and declared the movie as a whole to be a milestone for sex-positive cinema .

Accolades

Award	Date of ceremony	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref(s)
American Film Institute Awards	2005	Top 10 Films of the Year	The 40-Year-Old Virgin	Won
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards	December 11, 2005	Best Supporting Actress	Catherine Keener	Won
Critics Choice Association	January 9, 2006	Best Comedy Movie	The 40-Year-Old Virgin	Won
Golden Schmoes Awards	2005	Best Comedy of the Year	The 40-Year-Old Virgin	Won
		Best Screenplay of the Year		Nominated
		Best Surprise of the Year		Won
		Favorite Movie Poster of the Year		Nominated
		Best Breakthrough Performance of the Year	Steve Carell	Won
		Best Line of the Year	You know how I know you re gay?	Won
		Most Memorable Scene in a Movie	Chest waxing scene	Nominated
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards	December 2005	Best Supporting Actress	Catherine Keener	Won
MTV Movie & TV Awards	June 8, 2006	Best Movie	The 40-Year-Old Virgin	Nominated
		Best Breakthrough Performance	Romany Malco	Nominated
		Best Male Performance	Steve Carell	Nominated
		Best Comedic Performance		Won
		Best On-Screen Team	Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen, Romany Malco	Nominated
National Society of Film Critics Awards	January 8, 2006	Best Supporting Actress	Catherine Keener	Nominated
New York Film Critics Circle	January 8, 2006	Best Supporting Actress		Nominated
Writers Guild of America, East	February 4, 2006	Best Original Screenplay	Judd Apatow, Steve Carell	Nominated

Condition

New

Publisher

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment

Published Date

2008-02-05

Rating MPA

Not Rated

Recording Length

133

Recording Studio

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment

Format

DVD

Brand

Uni Dist Corp. (Mca)

Age Group

Adult

Amazon ASIN

B00005JNZU

UPC / EAN

025192870620

Model

MHV61028706DVD

Year

2005

ReleaseDate

2005-08-19

RuntimeMins

116

RuntimeStr

1h 56min

Awards

Awards, 10 wins & 19 nominations

Directors

Judd Apatow

Writers

Judd Apatow, Steve Carell

Stars

Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd

Produced by

Judd Apatow, Steve Carell, Andrew Jay Cohen, Jon Poll, Shauna Robertson, Seth Rogen, Clayton Townsend

Music by

Lyle Workman

Cinematography by

Jack N. Green

Film Editing by

Brent White

Casting By

Marla Garlin, Allison Jones

Production Design by

Jackson De Govia

Art Direction by

Tom Reta

Set Decoration by

K.C. Fox

Costume Design by

Debra McGuire

Makeup Department

Felicity Bowring, Ann Pala, Thomas Real, Kim Santantonio, Nancy Tong, Gary Archer, Corina C. Duran-Rabichuk, Michael Mekash

Production Management

Lisa Rodgers, Clayton Townsend, Gary R. Wordham

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Peter Dress, Jessica Lowrey, Rusty Mahmood, Michele Panelli-Venetis

Art Department

Richard Boris, Larry Boyd, Silas Brandon, Dominick Bruno, Susan A. Burig, Lorrie Campbell, Peggy Casey, Mario D Alfonso, Cosmas A. Demetriou, Dennis DeWaay, Eric DeWaay, Amelia Drake, Jennifer Fleury, Andrew P. Flores, Scott Garrett, Bradley Good, Raymond C. Lopez, Sean Mannion, Sarah Emily Nelson, James F. Orendorff, Enrico Paronelli, Christopher Schultz, Josh Sheppard, Lindsey Sjoberg, Mike Virnig, Mark Woods, Antonio Andraus, Michael Denering, Ryan Patrick Kelly, Randy Morgan, Gary Stel, Jason Baldwin Stewart, Marc Tantin

Sound Department

George H. Anderson, Bill Burns, Rich Coleman, Thom Coach Ehle, Tammy Fearing, Larry Kemp, Goro Koyama, Gregg Landaker, David Macmillan, Andy Malcolm, Anna Malkin, Harrison D. Marsh, Cindy Marty, Steve Maslow, James Matheny, Brion Paccassi, Kevin E. Patterson, Greg Steele, Cherie Tamai, Don White, Greg Zimmerman, John Clavin, Gregg Landaker, Stephen Muir, Jeff Porrello, Abel Schiro

Special Effects by

William H. Schirmer, Richard Stutsman, Robert Calvert

Visual Effects by

Frank Aalbers, Mark Fordham, Brian Adler, Ryan Beadle, Steve Caldwell, Dennis Dorney, Michele Ferrone, R.J. Harbour, Shaina Holmes, Nicholas Kim, Lori C. Miller, Mark Sawicki, Amani Williams

Stunts

William H. Burton Jr., Eddy Donno, Tony Donno, Debbie Evans, Tim Gilbert, Greg Harris, Buddy Joe Hooker, Gayle Hooker, Jayme Jensen, Shawn Kautz, Ralph W. Odum, Chad Randall, Jimmy N. Roberts, Erik Stabenau, Mike Weis, Scott Wilder, Shawn Odum, Jimmy N. Roberts

Camera and Electrical Department

Kent Baker, Renzo Bartolotta, Tony Blaszczyk, Brad Boyer, Dale Cole, Jerry C. Deats, Brian Dennis, Thomas DeRose, Sean Devine, Frank Dorowsky, Robert Dudley, Dave Ellis, Rod Farley, Megan Forste, Steven Frohardt, Ray Garcia, Craig Garfield, Antonio V. Garrido, Peter N. Green, Ryan Green, Suzanne Hanover, Steve House, Jay M. Huntoon, Frank R. Jimenez Jr., Jeffrey A. Johnson, Lawrence Karman, Scott C. Keys, Tucker Korte, Stephen MacDougall, Mike Macias, Jon D. Morrison, Ron Provenzano, Chad Rivetti, Jason Salonen, Ron Santoyo, David Thielhart, Ira Toles, H. Mark Vuille, Doug Wall, Tom Wholey, Michael D. Anderson, Ben Bowling, Jose Danner, Christopher Dorowsky, Christian J. Killingsworth, Bill Marti, Dan Ming, Laurence Monier, Tony Olivieri, Raul Riveros, Michael J. Schwartz, Joshua D. Thatcher, Joseph D. Urbanczyk

Casting Department

Tracy Dixon, Carol Grant, Wendy Hoffman, David Kramer, Michelle Rejwan, Terry L. Lamfers

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Ashlyn Angel, Winifred Clements, Jennifer Iizuka, Joseph T. Mastrolia, Katrina Mastrolia, Michael A. Russell

Editorial Department

Craig Alpert, Laura Behary, Melissa Bretherton, Nathan Bruner, Gary Burritt, Alex Hepburn, Michael Hofacre, Dan Muscarella, Ray Neapolitan, Cambric White

Location Management

Michael Betz, Alexander Kivlen, Robert Paulsen, Larry Ring, Brad Warden

Music Department

Julian Bratolyubov, Tom Calderaro, Bryan Carrigan, Joe Chicarelli, Chris Fogel, Jonathan Karp, Kathy Nelson, Manish Raval, Tom Wolfe, George Doering, Julie Eidsvoog, Bruce Fowler, M.B. Gordy, Tim Rodier

Script and Continuity Department

Nancy Karlin

Transportation Department

Tina L. Fortenberry, Ron Poniewaz, Steve D. Weinmuller, Tim Abbatoye, Gina August, J. Armin Garza II

Additional Crew

Selena Carrillo, Russell Cowan, Andrew Epstein, Karen Faust-Crossley, Anne Fletcher, Meredith Humbracht, Peter Jablonski, Fallon Johnson, Tammy Kalka, John C. Kruize, Jason Kumalo, Ernest H. Lauterio, Sabrina LeBrun, Carol McConnaughey, David Mendoza, Mike Mittendorff, Sammy Montero, Cindy Nevins, Brendan O Brien, Randy Offer, Ron Pekkala, Ericka Bryce Poniewaz, Luis R. Quintero, Gail Rose, Terence Rosemore, Michelle Schrauwers, Lori Scowley, Nancy A. Terriberry, William S. Turchyn II, Summer Valdes, Zachary Woodlee, Brook Worley, Natalie Alexander, Tracy Browne, Brian Clark, Adam Jordan, Kevin Maier, Myke Mansberger, Jay May, Kristy Pace, Stephanie Purdy-Azan, Karly Rothenberg, Kevin Roy, Mary C. Snyder, Guin Solomon, Carlos Tower, Matt Tulve, Mark Van Horne

Thanks

Mark Burnett, Perry Goldstein, Michael McDonald

Genres

Comedy, Romance

Companies

Universal Pictures, Apatow Productions

Countries

USA

Languages

English, Spanish, Japanese

ContentRating

R

ImDbRating

7.1

ImDb Rating Votes

434098

Metacritic Rating

73

Short Description

The 40-Year-Old Virgin is a 2005 American romantic comedy film directed by Judd Apatow, who produced the film with Clayton Townsend and Shauna Robertson. It features Steve Carell as the titular 40-year-old virgin Andy, an employee at an electronics store. Paul Rudd, Romany Malco, and Seth Rogen play co-workers who resolve to help him lose his virginity, and Catherine Keener stars as Andy s love interest, Trish.

Watching Carell s performance in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) inspired Apatow to cast him in the lead role for the film, and they wrote The 40-Year-Old Virgin together. It was based on a sketch Carell created with The Second City where a man aged 40 hides a secret. Filming took place in Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley, California, from January to April 2005.

The film was released theatrically in the United States on August 19, 2005, through Universal Pictures. It received positive reviews from critics, with Carell being highlighted for his performance, and grossed over $177 million worldwide on a $26 million budget. He won accolades from the Golden Schmoes Awards and MTV Movie & TV Awards for this role while Keener received awards from the Boston Society of Film Critics and Los Angeles Film Critics Association. The 40-Year-Old Virgin was named by the American Film Institute one of 2005 s Top 10 Films.

Box Office Budget

$26,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office Opening Weekend USA

$21,422,815

Box Office Gross USA

$109,449,237

Box Office Cumulative Worldwide Gross

$177,378,645

Keywords

Loss of virginity,40 year old,fellatio,sex scene,female nudity