Trainwreck

film by Apatow [2015]

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  • discussed in biography
    • Judd Apatow
      In Judd Apatow

      He both produced and directed Trainwreck (2015), a comedy written by and starring stand-up comedian Amy Schumer. The film concerns an unabashedly promiscuous young woman who, despite her aversion to romance, falls in love.

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    • Broderick
      • Matthew Broderick
        In Matthew Broderick: Later career

        …Me (2007), Tower Heist (2011), Trainwreck (2015), and Manchester by the Sea (2016). In 2022 he and Parker memorably starred in a revival of Simon’s Plaza Suite, in which three stories of romance are acted out in a guest suite at the Plaza Hotel. The following year Broderick played Richard…

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    • Cena
      • John Cena
        In John Cena: Comedies

        …a memorable supporting role in Trainwreck, which was directed by Judd Apatow and starred Amy Schumer. He later appeared inBlockers (2018) and Playing with Fire (2019). In 2021 he starred in Vacation Friends, about two couples who begin an unlikely friendship while on a trip to Mexico; he reprised his…

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    • James
    • Larson
      • Captain Marvel
        In Brie Larson

        …and with Amy Schumer in Trainwreck (2015) before her breakthrough in Room. In addition to an Oscar, Larson also won a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award for her work in the film, which was based on a 2010 novel by Emma Donoghue.

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    • Schumer
      • Amy Schumer
        In Amy Schumer

        …made her motion-picture breakthrough in Trainwreck (2015), a semiautobiographical comedy written by Schumer that was directed by Judd Apatow. Although the movie was a hit with audiences and critics, its box-office performance was overshadowed by a mass shooting at a showing of Trainwreck at a theater in Louisiana; two people…

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    • Swinton