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40 Days and 40 Nights Movie Review

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Actors: Josh Hartnett, Shannyn Sossamon, Vinessa Shaw, Griffin Dunn
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about 40 Days and 40 Nights
Josh Hartnett plays Matt Sullivan,a clumsy if nice web designer, still grieving the break-up of with his girlfriend Nicole (Vinessa Shaw). To get over her and to set his lifestraight he decides to take a sexual abstinence vow for 40 days and 40 nights. But keeping is far from easy: not only is job colleagues set bets about how many days he'll hold on to it and will do anything to win the prize money, but also in the first night he meets Erica (Shannyn Sossamon) that can be the perfect cure for his love pains in the very first night of the vow!
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Analysis of 40 Days and 40 Nights
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Plot
Comedy, primarily Yes
Time/era of movie: - 1980's-1999
Kind of comedy - romantic comedy

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Hair color? - brunette (Brown)
Hair type - (man) short/standard straight
Body type - (man) average
Unclothed? - Chest
Events of movie makes character more... - tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
Dumb? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor? - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - very athletic

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Female
Hair color - brunette (Brown)
Hair style - (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type - (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
Unclothed? - very tight clothes
How much in movie? - 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)

Main Adversary
Identity: - a deadline
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 90%-100%

Setting
City? Yes
City: - San Francisco

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Movie makes you feel... - full of laughter
Sex/nudity in movie? Yes
What kind of sex: - kissing - touching of personal anatomy - use of artificial tools - actual description of sex - seeing breasts
Any profanity? - Occasional swearing
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE... - Modern rock/pop
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