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The Hangover

  • 20092009
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  • 1h 40m
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Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, and Ed Helms in The Hangover (2009)
In Las Vegas, three groomsmen lose their about-to-be-wed buddy during their drunken misadventures, forcing them to retrace their steps in order to find him before the church bells ring.
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Three buddies wake up from a bachelor party in Las Vegas, with no memory of the previous night and the bachelor missing. They make their way around the city in order to find their friend bef... Read allThree buddies wake up from a bachelor party in Las Vegas, with no memory of the previous night and the bachelor missing. They make their way around the city in order to find their friend before his wedding.Three buddies wake up from a bachelor party in Las Vegas, with no memory of the previous night and the bachelor missing. They make their way around the city in order to find their friend before his wedding.
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    • Todd Phillips
    • Jon Lucas
    • Scott Moore
  • Stars
    • Zach Galifianakis
    • Bradley Cooper
    • Justin Bartha
    • Todd Phillips
    • Jon Lucas
    • Scott Moore
  • Stars
    • Zach Galifianakis
    • Bradley Cooper
    • Justin Bartha
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    • 815User reviews
    • 344Critic reviews
    • 73Metascore
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    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award

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    Justin Bartha, Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, and Ed Helms in The Hangover (2009)
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    Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, and Ed Helms in The Hangover (2009)
    Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, and Ed Helms in The Hangover (2009)
    Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, and Ed Helms in The Hangover (2009)
    Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, and Ed Helms in The Hangover (2009)
    Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, and Ed Helms in The Hangover (2009)
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    Zach Galifianakis
    Zach Galifianakis
    • Alan
    Bradley Cooper
    Bradley Cooper
    • Phil
    Justin Bartha
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    • Doug
    Ed Helms
    Ed Helms
    • Stu
    Heather Graham
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    • Jade
    Sasha Barrese
    Sasha Barrese
    • Tracy
    Jeffrey Tambor
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    • Sid
    Ken Jeong
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    Jernard Burks
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    Matt Walsh
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    Ian Anthony Dale
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    • Trivia
      No effects or prosthetics were created for Stu's missing tooth. Ed Helms never had an adult incisor grow, and his fake incisor was taken out for the parts of filming where Stu's tooth is missing.
    • Goofs
      The formal name for "roofies" is given as "Ruphylin". The drug is really a trademark brand named Rohypnol, but was changed for the movie because the makers did not want to be associated with the depicted criminal activities.
    • Quotes

      Stu Price: She's got my grandmother's Holocaust ring!

      Alan Garner: I didn't know they gave out rings at the Holocaust.

    • Crazy credits
      First part of the end credits feature a collage of photos showing what happened that night.
    • Alternate versions
      In the UK, on the advice of the BBFC, the photographs of an elderly woman performing oral sex on Alan were blurred in order to reduce the rating from a "18" to a "15". This version was also released on DVD.
    • Connections
      Edited into Yoostar 2: In the Movies (2011)
    • Soundtracks
      It's Now or Never
      Written by Aaron Schröder (as Aaron Schroeder), Wally Gold, Eduardo Di Capua (as Eduardo DiCapua), Giovanni Capurro and Alfredo Mazzucchi (as Alfredo Mazzuchi)

      Performed by Robert 'El Vez' López (as El Vez)

      Courtesy of Graciasland Records

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    8/10
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    If there's a film that will be sold on word of mouth alone this summer, it's The Hangover. With a funny but unspectacular trailer, a plot (guys go to Vegas for bachelor party and crazy things happens) that seems overly familiar, and stars who are relative unknowns there's nothing to suggest anything hugely promising. But those who have seen it can surely testify that it's a 24-carat piece of comedy gold, for once you can believe the marketing moguls...we have been graced by the sleeper comedy hit of the summer. On closer inspection it shouldn't actually have been that surprising, Todd Phillips occupies the director's chair and his previous output includes such hits as Road Trip, Old School and Starsky and Hutch. 'The Hangover' though easily surpasses those by merit of providing regular and consistent laughs amidst backdrop of a frenetic and unrelenting morning after.

    The problems most comedies face are that they have to put all their best laughs in the trailer, so by the time the film comes around the funniest parts lose their impact and the rest of the film is disappointing in comparison. This is a problem The Hangover sidesteps masterfully. Yes we know they wake up with no memory of what went before; there's a baby, a tiger, a chicken, a missing tooth, someone's married a hooker and (in an unsurprisingly bizarre cameo) Mike Tyson turns up...but these moments, albeit hilarious, aren't what make the film tick. The heart of the film is in the chemistry between the three leads; Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms) and Alan (Zach Galifianakis) are likable and identifiable enough for an audience to go along with events that could quite easily in another context seem ridiculous. Alan in particular is a character that could really grind your gears if he turned up in certain films, as part of the affable trio however he grows on you immensely.

    This success may partly be credited to casting unfamiliar faces but the actors themselves deserve huge credit. Cooper may already be slightly familiar to some and is undoubtedly a star in the making (having been cast this week as Faceman in the new A Team flick), Helms is best known for his stint in the US version of the office, Galifianakis though has come completely out of the blue and it wouldn't be at all a surprise to see him follow a career path similar to Seth Rogen's post Knocked Up. The missing groom Doug (Justin Bartha) also deserves an honourable mention for slotting effortlessly into the group when around, it's a shame the plot requires him to go missing for the most part. There's also perfectly pitched cameos for Heather Graham, Jeffrey Tambor, Ken Jeong and best of all Rachael Harris who is magnificently vile as the hapless Stu's wife.

    Phillips has no qualms puts his characters through the wringer, there's one shocking revelation after another as the people, animals and events they encountered the night before come back to bite them on the ass during the search for Doug. As the audience know as little as the characters do the reactions ring true, they suspend disbelief as colossally silly events are only matched in magnitude by the sound of laughs in the theatre. The Hangover never quite lets up - the laughs even continue way into the credits - so it should come as no surprise that a sequel is already being planned. Having come up with something so fresh here the producers will have to be careful not to suffer from a hangover themselves the second time around.

    Verdict: Brilliant chemistry and a few plot tweaks make The Hangover better than you could possibly be expecting going in. It's funny from start to finish and is guaranteed to have you leaving the cinema with a smile on your face.
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      • June 5, 2009 (United States)
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      • Caesars Palace - 3570 Las Vegas Boulevard South, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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      • Legendary Entertainment
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