Failure to Launch Page #9

Synopsis: At 35, Tripp has an interesting job, a hip car, a passion for sailing, and a great house - trouble is, he lives with his parents. They want him out, so they hire Paula, an "interventionist," who has a formula in these cases: chance encounter, get him to ask her out, involve him in a trauma, meet his friends and get their nod, delay sex, have him teach her something, then launch him. It's worked up to now, but this gets complicated when Tripp thinks she's getting too serious and one of his pals is attracted to Paula's deadpan, semi-alcoholic roommate, who's plagued by a mockingbird. Too many secrets may scrub the launch, and what if Paula really likes him? Who can intervene then?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Tom Dey
Production: Paramount Pictures
  5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.6
Metacritic:
47
Rotten Tomatoes:
24%
PG-13
Year:
2006
97 min
$88,658,172
Website
2,191 Views


- Go! Go!

- Go!

Oh, my God! He could

- go all the way!

- Go all the way!

Don't do all the work, Son!

Make her meet you half way!

So what do we do now?

Actually, it's quite simple.

You just have to decide.

Do you want to spend

the rest of your life having fun?

Or do you want to spend it with me?

Shut up.

Not everything you say is perfect.

We can have a little bit of fun, can't we?

Right on, man!

All right!

Yeah!

Hallelujah!

Show's over. You don't need to see that.

Come on, let's you and I

go outside, huh?

Play some football.

I'll show you how to throw it deep.

After, I'll show you

how to ice your shoulder down.

Give you a hand?

You just take it easy.

I got everything under control.

Hey, what's the champagne about?

It's Thursday.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Cheers.

All right, Captain,

where are we heading?

There's a lighthouse!

Can we go over there?

Sure. You're driving.

Tripp! Jibe ho! God, I said it late!

I'm sorry!

- Tripp!

- What happened to "jibe ho"?

I'm so sorry. Are you okay?

Yeah. Just got the wind

knocked out of me.

Maybe a collapsed lung,

a bruised sternum.

Other than that, I'll survive.

I'm going to get you

a flotation device, okay?

Yeah.

Stay right there.

That's a good idea.

Oh, sh*t.

Oh, sh*t!

No biting! No biting. No bite, no bite.

No, no, no, no...

Good boy.

Come here, you.

Yeah. Yeah.

That's it. Okay.

Here! I...

Oh, my God!

Yeah.

That's amazing.

What do you say, big man, huh?

Hey, still need this?

No, I'm good.

I'm real good.

Okay.

Honey, it's an Eastern Wood-Pewee.

Eastern Wood-Pewee?

You couldn't be more wrong

if you called it a Canadian goose.

I'll give you a Canadian goose.

Look!

He's so tame.

Yeah. See, once we accept the fact

that we're not separate from nature,

she welcomes us. And it's not with fear.

Right? Who do you love?

Hit the road, Tripp

- And don't you come back

- And don't you come back

- ... no more, no more, no more, no more

- ... no more, no more, no more, no more

- Hit the road, Tripp

- Hit the road, Tripp

- And don't you come back no more

- And don't you come back no more

What'd I say?

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