Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

  • 84% of critics liked it
    (178 reviews)

  • 75% of users liked it
    (600,033 ratings)

In desperate need of a vacation after being unceremoniously dumped by his TV-star girlfriend, a man travels to a lavish Hawaiian resort to nurse his wounds and forget his heartache, only to discover that his ex and her handsome new boyfriend are currently staying at the exact same island hot spot.… More

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R, 1 hr. 58 min.
Directed By
Nicholas Stoller
Written By
Jason Segel
Genres
Comedy, Romance
In Theaters
Mar 10, 2008 Wide
On DVD
Oct 5, 2008
Universal Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Bob Mondello, NPR.org

    With pratfalls, yucks, a crying jag, and what is starting to seem like the requisite flash of nudity, Jason Segel becomes this year's adorably hapless movie schlub.

  • Joe Baltake, Passionate Moviegoer

    'Forgetting Sarah Foster': Judd Apatow's Latest Dick Flick

  • Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

    Jason Segel has what Nicolas Cage and Gene Wilder and a precious handful of other witty actors have: The ability to make egregious humiliation and painful neediness a source of limitless mirth.

  • Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

    Halfway through I realized that I'd lost most of my standards, maybe under my seat, and was enjoying the erratic evolution of the nonsense.

  • Claudia Puig, USA Today

    The cringingly wacky scenarios, offbeat characters and comic dialogue serve up a crowd-pleasing, laugh-filled experience.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • John M


    Cute, funny movie. Jason segal and Mila Kunis did a wonderful job. Russell Brand is hilarious. Full of fun romantic comedy cliches but well worth the 2 hours.

  • Directors C


    [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img] Sarah Marshall is one of those Apatow comedies that puts Slot A into Slot B and doesn't try to do much more than that. As a romantic comedy it sometimes relies on too many ideas from other films that… More

  • Albert K


    Good balance of raunchiness and romance. Funny but it wasn't as funny as I'd like it to be. Still a good time to sit back and relax.

  • Sanjay R


    Segel and Brand really put on a show while Bell, Kunis, Rudd and Hill support them well. A very funny and well written movie.

  • Brad W


    This movie is hilarious, it is a comedy classic. Forgetting Sarah Marshall is about Peter Bretter (Jason Segel) who just lost his girlfriend Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell), and he decides to take a trip to Hawaii to get his mind off her, but ironically she is there with her new… More

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