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Zack and Miri Make a Porno

What would you do to get out of debt?

2008 · 1h 42m · R Comedy, Romance
Directed by Kevin Smith

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Overview

Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously thought.

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All reviews
65%
Tomatometer
Fresh

All in all it's a modern-day, Kevin Smith fairytale: a big-screen bearing, perhaps, of his soul at its sincerest and wittiest, if not filthiest.

Christine Champ, Film.com
Rotten

Smith may have pioneered this kind of upfront sex chat, but the Apatow team refined it. 'Zack and Miri' feels uncomfortably like a gruesome game of filth-talk oneupmanship, and it's hard to care who comes out on top.

Tom Huddlestone, Time Out
Rotten

It's one thing for a movie to be dirty; it's another thing altogether for it to be plain sloppy.

Christopher Orr, The New Republic
Rotten

Kevin Smith turns out to be reverent after all: he wants to separate true love from mere copulating for money, but his story mixes romance and porn so inextricably that he seems confused, and the movie trips over its own conceits.

David Denby, New Yorker
Fresh

Everyone on screen seems to be having so much fun.

Neely Tucker, Washington Post

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