Lucy has always used food to escape life's problems, but when this self-titled "fat friend" lures her group of old college buddies to the Montana wilderness, she reveals a new self - skinny, beautiful and still flawed.
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Missi Pyle | ... | Lucy | |
| Melissa McCarthy | ... | Becky | |
| Larry Sullivan | ... | Austin | |
| Phill Lewis | ... | Raye | |
| Josh Hopkins | ... | George | |
| Jack Noseworthy | ... | Trevor | |
| Octavia Spencer | ... | Mary | |
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Philip Littell | ... | Richard |
| William Sanderson | ... | Sam | |
| Allison Janney | ... | Suzanne | |
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Stacy Yutuc | ... | Flirty Flight Attendant |
| Allison Mackie | ... | Bitter Flight Attendant | |
| Amy Landers | ... | Puffy Paint Flight Attendant | |
| Drew Matthews | ... | Boy | |
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Sean Daly | ... | Park Ranger |
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Former college chums gather for what they think is their fat friend's dying last days, but they instead find her celebrating the last few days before reaching her target weight loss at a mountain lodge with a subsequent hiking trip planned for them all. Though it's the woman's long-held dream journey that she wanted to take with her best friends, the others, largely, can't get over the feeling of being duped, with everyone's emotional baggage breaking out awkwardly all along their forced and uncomfortable three-day hike back to civilization. Written by statmanjeff
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12 April 2008 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Opening Weekend USA:
$2,522, 20 September 2009Gross USA:
$6,537Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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Performed by Mba Shakoor
Written by Lucian Piane and Mba Shakoor
Courtesy of On the Stick Music (ASCAP), Take Back Music (ASCAP), Lucian Piane & Mba
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The bear that appears in the film is Brutus the Bear. He was raised from a cub by Casey Anderson who married Missi Pyle (Lucy.) They were married in Montana (where the film takes place) and Brutus the Bear was the Best Man. See more »Goofs
First night of the hiking trip they stay in dark-colored tents of varying sizes, then the next night they are all staying in small white tents with blue rain flys. The dark ones reappear during the last tent sequence. See more »Crazy Credits
There really is a Holland Lake Lodge See more »Soundtracks
Fed My Bitch a BladePerformed by Mba Shakoor
Written by Lucian Piane and Mba Shakoor
Courtesy of On the Stick Music (ASCAP), Take Back Music (ASCAP), Lucian Piane & Mba
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First of all, if you do not read the title before watching this movie, you may be a little...irritated? Or upset. The characters in this movie are dysfunctional but their dysfunctions remain very well guarded and hidden in their everyday lives...until their old friend from college (Missi Pyle) convinces them all to meet years later, in the middle of nowhere Montana to go on her own selfish journey. At first she seems to be the only person who is not a mental case, but towards the end, we realize she may be worse than any of the other characters.
I highly recommend this movie to anyone who isn't afraid of stepping out of their comfort zone, and has the ability to to laugh at the fact that what runs through a person's mind daily, or even just many times in their own life, can actually be played-out in reality when all pretenses and distractions are suddenly removed.