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  • Paul Rudd heading to Broadway - 9 July 2012
    -Actor Paul Rudd is returning to Broadway this autumn (12) in a new production of Grace.-The Knocked Up star will play a wide-eyed entrepreneur, who moves to Florida to open a chain of Gospel-themed motels with his girlfriend, set to be portrayed by actress Kate Ar


  • Segel and Rudd kiss on SNL - 20 November 2011
    -I Love You, Man co-stars Jason Segel and Paul Rudd thrilled fans by kissing passionately during a sketch on U.S. show Saturday Night Live at the weekend (19-20Nov11).-Segel showed off his comedic talents in an outrageous sketch in which he brought home his girlfri


  • Rudd to star in Knocked Up sequel - 8 January 2011
    -Actor Paul Rudd has signed up to star in a sequel to hit comedy Knocked Up, reprising his role from the 2007 original.- -Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl featured in Judd Apatow's Knocked Up as expectant parents dealing with the consequences of a one-night stand.- -

Paul Rudd - what members say


  • The Cider House Rules
  • The Cider House Rules review by Baz from
    Rated - 5.0 stars A Better Upgrade On BLU RAY Than I Expected 14 December 2011
    ...ands of Olive Worthington and her son Wally (great casting in Kate Nelligan and Paul Rudd). She's an estate-owning boss and he's a dashing young Airforce Pilot who is wa...   Read customer review
  • Clueless
  • Clueless review by beantrees from Avon
    Rated - 4.0 stars Cool girls' night in movie 22 November 2003
    ...seem to get herself a beau of her own, especially with dorky step-brother Josh (Paul Rudd) in the way. This is a great feelgood romcom, whose writer hits the spot wit...   Read customer review
  • The 40 Year-Old Virgin
  • The 40 Year-Old Virgin review by from Birkenhead England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Pure brilliance 9 August 2006
    ...' first time then perfect. Great acting from all and a big up to the fantastic Paul Rudd who in my opinion steals the film. Easy and enjoyable comedy that maybe men ma...   Read customer review

Paul Rudd - filmography


  • Admission (2013)
    Starring: Tina Fey,  Paul Rudd
    Director: Paul Weitz
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A Princeton admissions officer who is up for a major promotion takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption.
    1.5 stars out of 5 30% from 5 members
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  • This Is the End (2013)
    Starring: Seth Rogen,  Jonah Hill,  Jay Baruchel
    Director: Evan Goldberg,  Seth Rogen
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen direct this comedy action movie in which a number of Hollywood stars, including Rogen himself, play fictionalised versions of themselves facing up to the apocalypse. When Rogen, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson attend a party at James Franco's ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 13 members
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  • Wanderlust - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Paul Rudd,  Alan Alda,  Justin Theroux
    Director: David Wain
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd star in this comedy about a professional Manhattan couple who are forced to reconsider their aspirational lifestyle when unemployment looms. Linda and George have always lived life in the fast lane, prioritising their careers above anything else. At first they go to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 2,011 members
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  • The Secret Policeman's Ball 2012 on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Russell Brand,  Eddie Izzard,  Jon Stewart
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Coverage of The Secret Policeman's Ball 2012 which was held at the Radio City Music Hall in New York and featured some of the biggest names in British and American comedy. Dating back to 1979, The Secret Policeman's Ball has continued over the years to bring together the best minds of comedy in an ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 22 members
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  • Wanderlust on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Jennifer Aniston,  Malin Akerman,  Paul Rudd
    Director: David Wain
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston star in Wanderlust, a comedy from director David Wain (Role Models) and Producer Judd Appatow ( Knocked Up) about a couple who leave the pressures of the big city and join a freewheeling community. George (Rudd) and Linda (Aniston) are an over-extended, stressed out ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 3,652 members
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  • How Do You Know - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Reese Witherspoon,  Owen Wilson,  Paul Rudd
    Director: James L. Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Romantic comedy starring Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson and Paul Rudd. Former athlete Lisa (Witherspoon) meets troubled business executive George (Rudd) at a bad time. While Lisa is facing a difficult transition in her life, feeling past her athletic prime and questioning her current relationship ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 3,132 members
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  • Year One on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Paul Rudd,  Jack Black,  Gabriel Sunday
    Director: Harold Ramis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Harold Ramis directs this Judd Apatow-produced comedy set in a twisted version of the Biblical era. Jack Black and Michael Cera star as Zed and Oh, two lazy hunter-gatherers who set off on an epic journey through the ancient world after being banished from their primitive village.
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 24,872 members
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  • I Love You, Man on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Jason Segel,  Paul Rudd,  Jaime Pressly
    Director: John Hamburg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Peter Klaven is a successful real estate agent, who, upon getting engaged to the woman of his dreams, Zooey, discovers to his dismay that he has no male friend close enough to serve as his best man. Peter immediately embarks on a series of bizarre and awkward 'man-dates' to find such a friend, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 27,517 members
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  • Year One - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Paul Rudd,  Jack Black,  Gabriel Sunday
    Director: Harold Ramis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Harold Ramis directs this Judd Apatow-produced comedy set in a twisted version of the Biblical era. Jack Black and Michael Cera star as Zed and Oh, two lazy hunter-gatherers who set off on an epic journey through the ancient world after being banished from their primitive village.
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 4,356 members
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  • I Love You, Man - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Paul Rudd,  Joe Lo Truglio,  J.K. Simmons
    Director: John Hamburg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Comedy directed by John Hamburg. After becoming engaged to Zooey (Rashida Jones), the woman of his dreams, estate agent Peter Klaven (Paul Rudd) realises to his horror that he has no male friend close enough to be his best man at the wedding. Peter embarks on a series of bizarre and awkward 'man-..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 6,459 members
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  • Howl on DVD (2009)
    Starring: James Franco,  Paul Rudd,  Mary-Louise Parker
    Director: Rob Epstein,  Jeffrey Friedman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Rob Epstein directs this drama based on the obscenity trial faced by Beat poet Allen Ginsberg following the publication of his poem 'Howl'. Set in 1950s San Francisco, the film stars James Franco as the young Ginsberg, who becomes a lynchpin of the Beat generation, alongside the likes of Jack ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 2,842 members
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  • Role Models on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Seann William Scott,  Paul Rudd,  Christopher Mintz-Plasse
    Director: David Wain
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott star in Role Models as Danny and Wheeler, two salesmen who trash a company truck on an energy drink-fueled bender. Upon their arrest, the court gives them a choice: do hard time or spend 150 service hours with a mentorship program. After one day with the kids, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 38,008 members
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  • Role Models - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Paul Rudd,  Jane Lynch,  Christopher Mintz-Plasse
    Director: David Wain
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Comedy farce in which two boisterous salesmen are forced to spend a community service sentence helping out wayward kids. Wheeler (Seann William Scott) and Danny (Paul Rudd) are two energy drink salesmen who sample a few too many of their products and end up crashing one of the company trucks. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 8,755 members
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  • Sesame Street - Being Green on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Paul Rudd
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Elmo goes green to help the Earth in this collection of environmentally-themed capers from the Sesame Street gang.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 33 members
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  • Knocked Up - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Brianna,  Katherine Heigl,  Paul Rudd
    Director: Judd Apatow
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Judd Apatow writes and directs this amiable comedy in which slacker Ben (Seth Rogen) and up-and-coming career girl Alison (Katherine Heigl) meet at a bar and end up having a one night stand. Eight weeks later, Ben is shocked when Alison asks to meet up with him and reveals that she is pregnant. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 5,261 members
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  • I Could Never Be Your Woman on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer,  Paul Rudd,  Saoirse Ronan
    Director: Amy Heckerling
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    This movie follows a mother (Pfeiffer) who falls for a younger man (Rudd) while her daughter (Ronan) falls in love for the first time. Ullman plays Mother Nature, who messes with their fates.
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 14,335 members
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  • Reno 911! Miami on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Thomas Lennon,  Paul Rudd,  Patton Oswalt
    Director: Ben Garant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A rag-tag team of Reno cops are called in to save the day after a terrorist attack disrupts a national police convention in Miami Beach during spring break. Based on the Comedy Central series.
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 3,935 members
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  • Oh In Ohio on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Paul Rudd,  Liza Minnelli,  Keith David
    Director: Billy Kent
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Comedy starring Parker Posey. Priscilla Chase (Posey) lives in Ohio and is the Vice president of a company that specialise in bringing new business to Cleveland. She has been married for more than ten years to biology teacher Jack Chase (Paul Rudd). Priscilla is very successful in her career but is ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 583 members
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  • The 40 Year-Old Virgin on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Paul Rudd,  Jane Lynch,  Catherine Keener
    Director: Judd Apatow
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ribald comedy starring Steve Carell. Andy Stitzer (Carell) is a 40-year-old geek who works in an electronics store and seems content with his life and with his collection of comic books and action figures. But when his co-workers find out that Andy is still a virgin, they decide to set him up with ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 75,334 members
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  • 40 Year Old Virgin - Blu-ray (2005)
    Starring: Paul Rudd,  Jane Lynch,  Catherine Keener
    Director: Judd Apatow
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ribald comedy starring Steve Carell. Andy Stitzer (Carell) is a 40-year-old geek who works in an electronics store and seems content with his life and with his collection of comic books and action figures. But when his co-workers find out that Andy is still a virgin, they decide to set him up with ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 3,658 members
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  • The Baxter on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Paul Rudd,  Michael Showalter,  Michelle Williams
    Director: Michael Showalter
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    2005 US comedy directed, written by and starring Michael Showalter. Elliot Sherman (Showalter) is a nice guy, but a bit of a geeky dork. He knows that he is like this and sees no reason to change. In fact, he is rather proud of his personality and describes himself as being a 'Baxter', a name which ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 186 members
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  • P.S. on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Laura Linney,  Topher Grace,  Gabriel Byrne
    Director: Dylan Kidd
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A romantic story about a late 30's divorced woman who gets to live her fairy tale when she is reunited with a high school sweetheart who had died previously and reincarnated in a mid 20's year old cutie
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 2,613 members
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  • Anchorman on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Paul Rudd,  Steve Carell,  Christina Applegate
    Director: Adam McKay
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Goofball comedy directed by former Saturday Night Live writer Adam McKay. Will Ferrell stars as Ron Burgundy, a top-rated 1970s San Diego anchorman who believes women have a place in the newsroom - so long as they stick to covering fashion shows or late-breaking cooking news, that is. So when Ron ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 53,281 members
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  • Shape Of Things on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Paul Rudd,  Gretchen Mol,  Rachel Weisz
    Director: Neil LaBute
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on the play by Neil LaBute, this is the story of the relationship between art student Evelyn (Rachel Weisz) and art gallery attendant Adam (Paul Rudd). As their relationship deepens, Evelyn begins to treat Adam rather like one of her canvases: there to be transformed by her into what she ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 2,777 members
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  • 2 Days on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Paul Rudd,  Donal Logue,  Mackenzie Astin
    Director: Sean McGinly
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Dark comedy starring Paul Rudd as Paul Miller, who has struggled as an actor in Hollywood for years, and now he's had enough - not just of the show biz life, but of everything. So in two days he is going to kill himself. In true Hollywood style he has hired a film crew to document his last moments ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 133 members
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  • Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
    Starring: Paul Rudd,  Michael Ian Black,  Molly Shannon
    Director: David Wain
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who struggles to keep order while she falls in love with the local ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 1,154 member
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  • The Great Gatsby on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Mira Sorvino,  Toby Stephens,  Paul Rudd
    Director: Robert Markowitz
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Toby Stephens, Paul Rudd and Mira Sorvino star in this made-for-TV drama adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel set in the 1920s. When stockbroker Nick Carraway (Rudd) moves to Long Island, New York, he befriends his mysterious, wealthy neighbour Jay Gatsby (Stephens). Hoping to rekindle his ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 102 members
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  • The Cider House Rules - Blu-ray (1999)
    Starring: Paul Rudd,  Jane Alexander,  Erykah Badu
    Director: Lasse Hallstrom
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Lasse Hallstrom brings John Irving's best-selling novel to the screen in this Oscar-winning film. Homor (Tobey Maguire) is an orphan who has been at the same orphanage all his life, under the tutorage of Dr. Larch (Michael Caine). Dr. Larch has been grooming him to be his successor when he retires ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 243 members
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  • The Cider House Rules on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Paul Rudd,  Jane Alexander,  Erykah Badu
    Director: Lasse Hallstrom
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Based on the best-selling novel by John Irving, it's the story of Homer Wells, an child without parents raised and mentored by his orphanage's doctor, a man named Larch. He taught Homer everything about medicine and what he could about right and wrong, but he never gave him rules to live by. When ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 9,848 members
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  • Overnight Delivery (1998)
    Starring: Paul Rudd,  Christine Taylor,  Reese Witherspoon
    Director: Jason Bloom
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    College freshman Wyatt Trips, is in love, but his girlfriend Kim, is a thousand miles away at another college. Life on campus is teeing with temptation, but the couple swear to remain faithful. Then Trips hears that Kim has spent the night with someone called 'The Ricker'. Stunned, Trips drowns ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 93 members
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  • The Object Of My Affection on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Jennifer Aniston,  Paul Rudd,  Kali Rocha
    Director: Nicholas Hytner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Even though social worker Nina (Jennifer Aniston) has a boyfriend, the man she feels closest to is her schoolteacher friend George (Paul Rudd). When George is forced to move in with Nina, the relationship between the two becomes even more intense. Nina falls pregnant, but decides she would prefer ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 3,009 members
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  • Clueless on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Wallace Shawn,  Paul Rudd,  Brittany Murphy
    Director: Amy Heckerling
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Jane Austen might never have imagined that her 1816 novel Emma could be turned into a fresh and satirical look at ultra-rich teenagers in a Beverly Hills high school. Cher (Alicia Silverstone) and Dionne (Stacey Dash), both named after great singers of the past that now do infomercials, are ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 10,475 members
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  • The Betsy (1978)
    Starring: Laurence Olivier,  Robert Duvall,  Katharine Ross
    Director: Daniel Petrie
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The patriarch of a family-owned corporation hires a young race car driver to help him design a fuel efficient car in secrecy. They face resistance from the president of the company (the patriarch's grandson), who wishes to eliminate the motor car division because of bad blood between himself and ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 38% from 6 members
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  • Hart To Hart - Season 1 (6 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Paul Rudd,  Rene Auberjonois,  Rene
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The complete first season of the popular US drama series starring Robert Wagner and Stephanie Powers as Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a pair of wealthy amateur sleuths. As a self-made millionaire and head of Hart Industries, Jonathan Hart would seem to have it all. He and and his beautiful wife ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 334 members
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Paul Rudd facts

5 most recent films

Anchorman 2 - 4.0 stars
Admission - 1.5 stars
This Is the End - 3.5 stars
This Is 40 - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
This Is 40 - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Friends - Series 1-10 - Complete - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Anchorman - The Legend Of Ron Burgundy - The Extended Cut - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Monsters Vs Aliens - 3D Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Cider House Rules - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
40 Year Old Virgin - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Admission - 1.5 stars
The Betsy - 2.0 stars
Our Idiot Brother - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
The Secret Policeman's Ball 2012 - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Sesame Street - Being Green - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Jason Segel - 10 times - show films
Elizabeth Banks - 8 times - show films
Reese Witherspoon - 8 times - show films
Vincent Schiavelli - 7 times - show films
Steve Carell - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 10 times - show films
David Wain - 8 times - show films
Judd Apatow - 8 times - show films
Adam McKay - 5 times - show films
Amy Heckerling - 4 times - show films