40 Days and 40 Nights
After a brutal break-up, a young man vows to stay celibate during the forty days of Lent, but finds the girl of his dreams and is unable to do anything about it.
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Released
- 2002
- Country
- United States, United Kingdom, France, Canada
Details
Release year: 2002
Storyline
After a brutal break-up, a young man vows to stay celibate during the forty days of Lent, but finds the girl of his dreams and is unable to do anything about it.
Top credits
Josh Hartnett ā Matt
Shannyn Sossamon ā Erica Sutton
Paulo Costanzo ā Ryan
Adam Trese ā John
Did you know
ā¢ Josh Hartnett tried to emulate his character's celibacy. He lasted for two weeks.
ā¢ A number of online articles have criticized this film for the fact that Nicole rapes Matt and is not brought to justice for doing so, the fact that Erica acts like the rape of Matt was a case of Matt being unfaithful, and the fact that Matt subsequently apologies to Erica for having been raped.
ā¢ Ashton Kutcher and Katie Holmes were originally set to play the roles of Matt and Erica. They both dropped out due to scheduling conflicts.
Box Office
Gross (Domestic): $37,950,822
Opening Weekend (Domestic): $12,229,529 (2002-03-03)
User reviews
Enjoyable, BUT...
crude and physically impossible, but mildly entertaining
Hartnett is charismatic enough to make it work
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- DTS, Dolby, SDDS
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
- Color
- Color
