Someone Marry Barry

{{short description|2014 romantic comedy directed by Rob Pearlstein}}

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| image = Someone Marry Barry poster.jpg

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| caption = Release poster

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| director = Rob Pearlstein

| producer = Kate Cohen
Barry Josephson
Rob Pearlstein
Marisa Polvino

| writer = Rob Pearlstein

| starring = Tyler Labine
Damon Wayans, Jr.
Lucy Punch
Hayes MacArthur
Thomas Middleditch

| music = Joey Katsaros

| cinematography = Mårten Tedin

| editing = Justin Bourret

| studio = Madrose Productions
Straight Up Films
Freestyle Releasing{{cite web|url=http://freestylereleasing.com/someone-marry-barry/|title=Someone Marry Barry|date=8 February 2014|website=Freestyle Releasing|accessdate=15 September 2018}}

| distributor = FilmBuff

| released = {{Film date|2014|2|7|United States}}

| runtime = 87 minutes{{Cite news |last=Genzlinger |first=Neil |date=2014-02-12 |title=Take My Bro, Please |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/movies/someone-marry-barry-a-gross-out-rom-com.html |access-date=2025-06-26 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

| country = United States

| language = English

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Someone Marry Barry is a 2014 American romantic comedy directed and written by Rob Pearlstein and starring Tyler Labine, Lucy Punch, Damon Wayans, Jr., and Hayes MacArthur. The plot follows a group of childhood friends' plans to get rid of their socially inappropriate friend Barry by finding him a wife. Miraculously, Barry meets his female equal, making the guys' problems double.

Cast

Production

On July 23, 2012, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Labine, Punch, and Wayans, Jr. had joined the cast of the film written and directed by Pearlstein.{{cite news |last=Kit |first=Borys |date=23 July 2012 |title=Tyler Labine, Damon Wayans Jr., Lucy Punch Starring in Comedy 'Someone Marry Barry' |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tyler-labine-damon-wayans-jr-lucy-punch-353224 |accessdate=14 February 2014 |newspaper=The Hollywood Reporter}}{{cite news |date=24 July 2012 |title=Tyler Labine, Damon Wayans Jr., and Lucy Punch Join Someone Marry Barry |url=http://www.movieweb.com/news/tyler-labine-damon-wayans-jr-and-lucy-punch-join-someone-marry-barry |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120726142724/https://movieweb.com/news/tyler-labine-damon-wayans-jr-and-lucy-punch-join-someone-marry-barry/ |archive-date=2012-07-26 |accessdate=14 February 2014 |newspaper=MovieWeb}} On November 1, 2013, it was announced that FilmBuff would release the film on February 13, 2014, in theaters and on VOD.{{cite news |last=Khatchatourian |first=Maane |date=1 November 2013 |title='Someone Marry Barry' to Hit Theaters and VOD on Eve of Valentine's Day |url=https://variety.com/2013/digital/news/someone-marry-barry-to-hit-theaters-and-vod-on-valentines-day-1200786284/ |accessdate=4 February 2014 |newspaper=Variety}}

= Filming =

The principal photography of the film began on July 23, 2012, in Los Angeles.

Critical reception

Glenn Kenny of RogerEbert.com described the film as "a Bro-dom comedy with a sharp focus on The Inappropriate Guy", criticizing its reliance on puerile humor.{{Cite web |last=Kenny |first=Glenn |date=February 7, 2014 |title=Someone Marry Barry |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/someone-marry-barry-2014 |access-date=September 19, 2024 |website=RogerEbert.com}} David Nusair of Reel Film Reviews wrote, "Someone Marry Barry‘s exceedingly mild success is due almost entirely to the efforts of an impressively charismatic roster of actors."{{Cite web |last=Nusair |first=David |date=May 20, 2020 |title=Someone Marry Barry |url=https://reelfilm.com/someone-marry-barry/ |access-date=2024-09-19 |website=Reel Film Reviews}} Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times wrote, "For a gross-out movie, 'Someone Marry Barry' has a respectable number of genuinely funny moments. Over all, it's still kind of crass and lowbrow, showing a particular obsession with flatulence, but there's a good-heartedness to it that somehow overrides your gut instinct to stop watching."{{Cite news |last=Genzlinger |first=Neil |date=February 12, 2014 |title=Take My Bro, Please |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/movies/someone-marry-barry-a-gross-out-rom-com.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 |access-date=2024-09-19 |work=The New York Times}}

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