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Want a Great Date Night Movie? ‘Along Came Polly’, Starring Ben Stiller & Jennifer Aniston
Take 1 part milk-toast neurotic (Ben Stiller’s signature character trait)
and mix well with 1 manic-pixie dream girl played by Jennifer Aniston.
The result?
In the end, you get a movie that managed to achieve a level of popularity rarely seen in offbeat romantic comedies. In the early “aughts” (2001-2009) this formula was still fairly fresh, and the way in which John Hamburg directs ‘Along Came Polly’ highlights the importance of character driven comedy over laugh-a-minute antics.
