Someone Marry Barry is a 2014 American romantic comedy film 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.
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Cast
Tyler Labine as Barry Burke
Damon Wayans, Jr. as Desmond
Lucy Punch as Melanie Miller
Hayes MacArthur as Rafe
Thomas Middleditch as Kurt
Frankie Shaw as Camille
Ed Helms as Ben
Ginger Gonzaga as Juanita
Amanda Lund as Rachael
Jerry Minor as Taxi Driver
Greg Germann as Bill
Brett Gelman as Goker
Joe Lo Truglio as Sammy (Barry's Barry)
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. On November 1, 2013, it was announced that FilmBuff would release the film on February 13, 2014, in theaters and on VOD.
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. 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." 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."