Several of the hottest comic talents in the film world today
headline the story of a loveable, well-meaning, but arrested
adolescent who drives his best friends nuts in the new comedy You,
Me and Dupree. OWEN WILSON, coming off of the biggest comic
sensation of the past several years with Wedding Crashers, now
brings his latest characterfree-spirited bachelor and permanent
houseguest Randolph Dupreestraight to the film's front door. KATE
HUDSON (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Skeleton Key) stars as
Molly Peterson, the understandingyet put uponschoolteacher bride
of Dupree's oldest friend Carl (MATT DILLON, There's Something
About Mary, Crash). Joining the trio, two-time Oscar® winner
MICHAEL DOUGLAS (Wall Street, The War of the Roses) plays Molly's
dad (and Carl's boss), the doting-yet-scheming real estate tycoon
Mr. Thompson, while SETH ROGEN (The 40-Year-Old Virgin) plays Carl
and Dupree's good buddy Neil.
Face it. No matter who you are, you have met, dated, loaned money
to, bailed out of a jam or played host to a Dupree. Who among us
doesn't have that wayward, slacker friend who marches to the beat
of his own drum? We all know a Dupree: the good-hearted confidante,
that party animal who can drink us under the table while dispensing
unique wisdom into our lives
and who loves nothing more than couch
channel-surfing while the rest of the world trudges off to the
daily grind.
In You, Me and Dupree, Carl and Molly have found the one
unfortunate hitch in their perfectly constructed newly wedded
world: Dupree. A slacker with the soul of a poet, Dupree just can't
seem to catch a break from "The Man." When he takes a week off to
best-man Carl and Molly's marriage in Hawaii, Dupree gets the
unceremonious heave-ho from his boss. Now jobless, car-less and
evicted from the cot at his favorite watering hole, he just needs
to crash with the Petersons for a couple of days; okay, maybe a
month or so...
At first, Carl is psyched to have the couch guest while Molly bears
the brunt of Dupree's well-meaning antics. But, as Carl becomes
buried in his grown-up job of land development and headaches, he
finds it hard to juggle Dupree and his newlywed responsibilities.
As time passes, his and Molly's houseguest uses his ample spare
time to become a great companion to her, underscoring Carl's new
workaholic tendencies. Even Molly's dad begins to fall for Dupree's
carefree wisdom, frustrating Carl to no end. Soon, everyone (but
Carl) begins to root for Dupree to stick around. But just as the
impish buddy starts becoming a fixture in the Petersons' home,
three becomes not just a crowd...but a full-blown comic
catastrophe. As the couple realizes their ideas of a white-picket
fence marriage are morphing, their loveable pal serves as a daily
reminder that finding your inner Dupree might just be one of life's
hidden secrets.
Opens 14 Sep
