YOU, ME AND DUPREE


USA: Universal Studios
UK: UIP (UK)
Cast: Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson, Matt Dillon, Michael Douglas, Seth Rogen, Amanda Detmer, Ralph Ting, Todd Stashwick, Bill Hader, Lance Armstrong, Jason Winer, Sidney Liufau, Billy Gardell, Eli Vargas, Houston McCrillis, Bob Larkin, Suzanne Ford, Fenessa Pineda, Tasha Smith, John Ruby, Claudia Choi, Summer Altice, Jeanine Hass, Peter Ruocco, Lance Irwin, Mario Quinonez Jr, Jay Lembeck, Gil Harris, Pat Crawford Brown, Bayani Ison, Joe Wilson, Howard Lefstein, Blaine Pate, Kevin Breznahan, Trevor Stock, Sean Perrone, Craig Hosking
Directors: Joe Russo, Anthony Russo
Country: USA
USA: 108 mins
UK: 109 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for sexual content, brief nudity, crude humor, language and a drug reference
UK Certificate: 12A contains one use of strong language and moderate sex references
USA Release Date: 14 July 2006
UK Release Date: 25 August 2006


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Synopsis

Several of the hottest comic talents in the film world today headline the story of a loveable, well-meaning, but arrested adolescent who drives his best friends nuts in the new comedy YOU, ME AND DUPREE. Owen Wilson, coming off of the biggest comic sensation of the past several years with WEDDING CRASHERS, now brings his latest character—free-spirited bachelor and permanent houseguest Randolph Dupree—straight to the film's front door. Kate Hudson (HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS, THE SKELETON KEY) stars as Molly Peterson, the understanding—yet put upon—schoolteacher bride of Dupree's oldest friend Carl (Matt Dillon, THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY, CRASH). Joining the trio, two-time Oscar® winner Michael Douglas (WALL STREET, THE WAR OF THE ROSES) plays Molly's dad (and Carl's boss), the doting-yet-scheming real estate tycoon Mr. Thompson, while Seth Rogen (THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN) plays Carl and Dupree's good buddy Neil

Face it. No matter who you are, you have met, dated, loaned money to, bailed out of a jam or played host to a Dupree. Who among us doesn't have that wayward, slacker friend who marches to the beat of his own drum? We all know a Dupree: the good-hearted confidante, that party animal who can drink us under the table while dispensing unique wisdom into our lives...and who loves nothing more than couch channel-surfing while the rest of the world trudges off to the daily grind.

In YOU, ME AND DUPREE, Carl and Molly have found the one unfortunate hitch in their perfectly constructed newly wedded world: Dupree. A slacker with the soul of a poet, Dupree just can't seem to catch a break from "The Man." When he takes a week off to best-man Carl and Molly's marriage in Hawaii, Dupree gets the unceremonious heave-ho from his boss. Now jobless, car-less and evicted from the cot at his favorite watering hole, he just needs to crash with the Petersons for a couple of days; okay, maybe a month or so...

At first, Carl is psyched to have the couch guest while Molly bears the brunt of Dupree's well-meaning antics. But, as Carl becomes buried in his grown-up job of land development and headaches, he finds it hard to juggle Dupree and his newlywed responsibilities. As time passes, his and Molly's houseguest uses his ample spare time to become a great companion to her, underscoring Carl's new workaholic tendencies. Even Molly's dad begins to fall for Dupree's carefree wisdom, frustrating Carl to no end.

Soon, everyone (but Carl) begins to root for Dupree to stick around. But just as the impish buddy starts becoming a fixture in the Petersons' home, three becomes not just a crowd, but a full-blown comic catastrophe. As the couple realizes their ideas of a white-picket fence marriage are morphing, their loveable pal serves as a daily reminder that finding your inner Dupree might just be one of life's hidden secrets.

For anyone who has ever longed to live by the seat of her pants or go where the wind blows him comes a comedy from Emmy Award-winning directors Anthony & Joe Russo (ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT). The directing duo helm the wildly comic story from first-time screenwriter Michael Le Sieur of a suburban couple who are just trying to make their new marriage work when her and me unexpectedly become YOU, ME AND DUPREE.