I Give It a Year Page #2

Synopsis: Newlywed couple Nat and Josh are deliriously happy despite their differences, though friends and family aren't convinced that they can last. With their first anniversary approaching and attractive alternatives in the mix, can they last?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Dan Mazer
Production: Magnolia Pictures
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
50
Rotten Tomatoes:
53%
R
Year:
2013
97 min
$5,851,913
Website
1,282 Views


- No.

No, no, I think we were both in love

with the idea of being in love.

You know, and we're at that age

where we're ready to find "the one".

And don't tell me, Josh,

you opened that closet door,

didn't want to live that lie any more.

I picked up on it the moment you sat down.

Tricks of the trade.

You know, you can tell by the shoes.

No! Oh, Christ, no, no, no, no,

I'm completely straight.

Couldn't be less gay.

I mean, I don't even like...

touching my own penis.

Right, so were there terrible sexual problems?

Does he have tremendously niche desires?

Did he want to touch you here?

- Uh...

- Never with a pen.

Look, Nat's amazing, obviously.

She's wonderful.

And I think we both really want

to make this work.

But is it possible

that some people

just aren't supposed to be married?

Truthfully, there's just something

in our marriage

that hasn't quite...

- Clicked.

...jelled.

So? Was it like a dream?

Well, we ticked every wedding box.

Cake, sweaty uncles dancing to Queen.

People we thought were dead

flying in from Canada.

It was very wedding-y, right?

It was so romantic.

It was just like a Hugh Grant film.

- It was amazing, wasn't it?

- Mmm!

Did you like all the flowers?

We got the most...

I'm sorry,

but can we do this at lunch?

- Right. Absolutely, Helen.

- Thanks.

Ruthlessly efficient, as always.

We should not be talking about

- lace halter necks on company time.

- No.

- What's the story?

- While you were on your holiday,

I took the initiative

and I started gathering ideas for Guy Harrap.

He's taken over his father's

industrial solvent and bleach empire.

You weren't here, but he basically wants

to make solvents and bleach sexy.

- F*** off.

- (phone ringing)

(Josh over speaker) Is that

my dirty little slut of a wife?

Hey!

What are you doing?

Uh, middle of a meeting. What's up?

Maybe I'm just missing

the sexiest wife in the universe.

- Not working today?

- I've got writer's block.

I can't work out whether to call

my main character Ezra

- or David.

- Um, David.

I was at school with an Ezra who got expelled

for punching a swan in the throat.

Who said the second novel would be tricky?

Anything else?

No, no, no. I'll see you at three.

- Love...

- (dialling tone)

...you.

Sorry, that was my husband.

He has writer's block.

Did I mention that he was a writer, of books?

- Only about a million times.

- Yeah, Clare mentioned it,

but I've never heard of him. (coughs)

Sorry, sorry.

You do realise you're not going

any faster than walking, don't you?

You've got all the superficial

trappings of a run

but there's people walking much faster than you.

You're just expending a lot of surplus energy.

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Dan Mazer

Dan Mazer (born 1971) is a British screenwriter, producer, and comedian. He is best known as the long-time writing and production partner of Sacha Baron Cohen and has worked with him on such characters as Ali G and Borat. Mazer co-wrote and co-produced the films Ali G Indahouse (2002), Borat (2006) and Brüno (2009). Mazer attended The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, where he met Baron Cohen. He went on to read Law at Peterhouse, Cambridge University, and graduated in 1994. He was an active member of Cambridge Footlights while at university and was vice president from 1993 to 1994. His early work includes production roles on The Word, The Big Breakfast and The 11 O'Clock Show. In 2007, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing the film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. He shared his nomination with Sacha Baron Cohen, Ant Hines, Peter Baynham, and Todd Phillips. They ended up losing to The Departed. He is currently co-writing Lost for Words with Jamie Curtis. In 2013 he made his feature film directing debut with the British comedy I Give It a Year. He followed it with the 2016 American comedy Dirty Grandpa. more…

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