This Is 40: The Shooting Script
<p>Five years after Judd Apatow introduced us to Pete and Debbie in <em>Knocked Up</em>, Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann reprise their roles as the couple in the writer/director's <em>This Is 40</em>, a comedic look at the everyday life of an American family. What emerges is a portrait of the challenges and rewards of marriage and parenthood: sex and romance, career triumphs and financial hardships, aging parents and maturing children and everything in between. <em>This Is 40</em> captures what it takes for a family to flourish in the middle of a lifetime together, rendered with the unique intimacy of a filmmaker collaborating with his own wife and children.</p><p><em>The Newmarket Shooting Script Book includes:</em></p><ul> <li> An introduction by writer/actor Lena Dunham written especially for this edition</li> <li> Judd Apatow's answers to "Five Obvious Questions" and an afterword on his writing/directing process</li> <li> The complete screenplay</li> <li> 35 color photographs</li> <li> Complete cast and crew credits</li></ul>