Family Jewels (aka Barry Munday) **
Stars: Patrick Wilson, Judy Greer, Chloë Sevigny, Malcolm McDowell, Jean Smart, Christopher McDonald, Cybill Shepherd | Written by Chris D’Arienzo, Frank Turner Hollon | Directed by Chris D’Arienzo
If you’re looking for a film where you laugh with every passing minute, then I’m sorry to tell you, you’ve picked the wrong film. Family Jewels is the story of Barry Munday (Wilson), who is a single 30 something, who doesn’t seem to have much ambition in his life, doesn’t seem to care about his career, and definitely doesn’t have a care for meeting the one and building a life with her. In fact he’s the kind of guy who enjoys drunken one night stands, without the memory of who he was with or what he did.
However, one afternoon he finds that his days of casual sexual conquests may be up,...
Stars: Patrick Wilson, Judy Greer, Chloë Sevigny, Malcolm McDowell, Jean Smart, Christopher McDonald, Cybill Shepherd | Written by Chris D’Arienzo, Frank Turner Hollon | Directed by Chris D’Arienzo
If you’re looking for a film where you laugh with every passing minute, then I’m sorry to tell you, you’ve picked the wrong film. Family Jewels is the story of Barry Munday (Wilson), who is a single 30 something, who doesn’t seem to have much ambition in his life, doesn’t seem to care about his career, and definitely doesn’t have a care for meeting the one and building a life with her. In fact he’s the kind of guy who enjoys drunken one night stands, without the memory of who he was with or what he did.
However, one afternoon he finds that his days of casual sexual conquests may be up,...
- 4/20/2011
- by Abid Gangat
- Nerdly
“Barry Munday’s” namesake dimwit fancies himself a ladies’ man, hitting on every ready and willing female who crosses his path. That is, until the day he gets his testicles crushed by the outraged, trumpet-wielding father of one potential conquest.
His testicles damaged beyond repair, doctors promptly remove them, leaving Barry in a terrible existential and sexual funk. His spirits pick up, however, when a young woman, Ginger Farley (Judy Greer), notifies him that she’s pregnant with his child and sues him for paternity. The befuddled Barry has no memory of his and Ginger’s sexual encounter, but news of possible fatherhood offers redemption, a sense that his seed has left behind a legacy and there’s hope for the future after all.
But Barry’s efforts to be involved with Ginger’s pregnancy hit roadblocks when Ginger turns out to be a disdainful sourpuss with intimidating parents (Malcolm...
His testicles damaged beyond repair, doctors promptly remove them, leaving Barry in a terrible existential and sexual funk. His spirits pick up, however, when a young woman, Ginger Farley (Judy Greer), notifies him that she’s pregnant with his child and sues him for paternity. The befuddled Barry has no memory of his and Ginger’s sexual encounter, but news of possible fatherhood offers redemption, a sense that his seed has left behind a legacy and there’s hope for the future after all.
But Barry’s efforts to be involved with Ginger’s pregnancy hit roadblocks when Ginger turns out to be a disdainful sourpuss with intimidating parents (Malcolm...
- 9/29/2010
- Moving Pictures Magazine
![Judy Greer and Patrick Wilson in Barry Munday (2010)](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTUzNTc4Nzg4N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTM5NTE3Mw@@._V1_QL75_UX140_CR0,0,140,207_.jpg)
![Judy Greer and Patrick Wilson in Barry Munday (2010)](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTUzNTc4Nzg4N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTM5NTE3Mw@@._V1_QL75_UX140_CR0,0,140,207_.jpg)
From the looks of the trailer, Barry Munday is both your average Us sex comedy, and something quite different.A brief scan of the high concept (man loses testicles after the father of his latest attempted conquest hits them with a trumpet) might lead you to think that it’s nothing more than a bawdy romp. But Munday seems to have a deeper agenda than a simple body humour comedy.Patrick Wilson stars as the title character, a suburban womanizer whose high opinion of himself is fuelled by the fact that he is fairly successful with the ladies. But when he has that fateful encounter with the musical instrument, he’s suddenly cut off from two very precious possessions. And his troubles don’t stop there: he’s then sued for paternity by Ginger Farley (Judy Greer), a woman he can’t even remember having sex with, and when he meets her,...
- 8/5/2010
- EmpireOnline
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