Movie 43 is a 2013 American anthology comedy film co-directed and produced by Peter Farrelly, and written by Rocky Russo and Jeremy Sosenko among others. The film features fourteen different storylines, each one by a different director, including Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Rusty Cundieff, James Duffy, Griffin Dunne, Patrik Forsberg, James Gunn, Bob Odenkirk, Brett Ratner, Will Graham, and Jonathan van Tulleken. It stars an ensemble cast that is led by Banks, Kristen Bell, Halle Berry, Gerard Butler, Seth MacFarlane, Leslie Bibb, Kate Bosworth, Josh Duhamel, Anna Faris, Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Hugh Jackman, Johnny Knoxville, Justin Long, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloë Grace Moretz, Chris Pratt, Liev Schreiber, Seann William Scott, Emma Stone, Jason Sudeikis, Uma Thurman, Naomi Watts and Kate Winslet. Julianne Moore, Tony Shalhoub and Anton Yelchin are also featured in cut scenes released on DVD and Blu-ray.

The film took almost a decade to get into production as most studios rejected the script, which was eventually picked up by Relativity Media for $6 million. The film was shot over a period of several years, as casting also proved to be a challenge for the producers. Some actors, including George Clooney, declined to take part, while others, such as Richard Gere, attempted to get out of the project.

Released on January 25, 2013, Movie 43 was panned by critics, with Richard Roeper calling it the Citizen Kane of awful , joining others who labeled it as one of the worst films of all time. The film won three awards at the 34th Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture.

Plot

Movie 43 is a series of different, interconnected short films and sketches containing different scenes and scenarios about a washed-up producer as he pitches insane story lines featuring some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.

The Pitch

• Produced and directed by Peter Farrelly and written by Rocky Russo, Jeremy Sosenko, and Ricky Blitt

The film is composed of multiple comedy shorts presented through an overarching segment titled The Pitch , in which Charlie Wessler, a mad screenwriter, is attempting to pitch a script to film executive Griffin Schraeder.

After revealing several of the stories in his script, Wessler becomes agitated when Schraeder dismisses his outrageous ideas, and he pulls a gun on him and forces him to listen to multiple other stories before making Schraeder consult his manager, Bob Mone, to purchase the film.

When they do so, Mone s condescending, humiliating attitude toward Schraeder angers him to the point that, after agreeing to make the film the biggest film since Howard the Duck , he confronts Mone in the parking lot with a gun and tries to make him perform fellatio on the security guard (Wessler had gotten on the lot by doing the same thing) and kill him if he does not make the film.

Wessler tries to calm Schraeder down with more story ideas to no avail, but Mone pulls out a gun and shoots Schraeder to death. As the segment ends, it is revealed that it is being shot by a camera crew as part of the movie, leading into the final segments.

• Dennis Quaid as Charlie Wessler
• Greg Kinnear as Griffin Schraeder
• Common as Bob Mone
• Charlie Saxton as Jay
• Will Sasso as Jerry
• Odessa Rae as Danita
• Seth MacFarlane as himself
• Mike Meldman as himself

Alternative version (The Thread)

• Directed by Steven Brill and written by Rocky Russo and Jeremy Sosenko

In some countries, like the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, the structure differs. Instead of a pitch, the films are connected by a group of three teenagers searching for the most banned film in the world, Movie 43, which will ultimately lead to the destruction of civilization. Calvin Cutler and his friend J. J. make a video in the style of MTV s Jackass and upload it on YouTube where it instantly reaches over 1,000,000 views. This turns out to be an April Fool s prank from Calvin s younger brother Baxter, who cloned YouTube and hyper-inflated the views while working on his science project.

Calvin and J.J. attempt to get revenge by telling Baxter of a film that s so dangerous it will cause the annihilation of the world. The movie is known as Movie 43. While J.J. and Baxter look for Movie 43 on a Google stand-in, Calvin retrieves Baxter s laptop and loads it with viruses from porn sites, and masturbates to a strip tease video on the porn sites in a bathroom. Baxter finds hundreds of results for Movie 43 on a website referred to by him as a dark corner of the Internet. They find the sketches starting from the 43rd search on the list of results.

As Baxter and J.J. keep watching videos, they are interrupted by Vrankovich and a group of Chinese mobsters wanting to find Movie 43, going so far as to take J.J. s classmate Stevie Schraeder, film executive Griffin Schraeder s oldest son, hostage. Vrankovich warns them that if they find Movie 43, civilization will be destroyed. They ignore his claims and keep searching, Eventually finding the real, one and only Movie 43, which turns out to be from the future.

Showing Baxter as a profane commando, leading a group of recruits to survive after the world has ended. As Calvin finishes ruining Baxter s laptop, their mother enters, wearing the same shirt and shorts that the woman in the strip tease video wore, causing Calvin to have a mental breakdown, realizing he had masturbated to a video of his mother. Afterward, a deadly earthquake rumbles and mankind is lost. However, a few years later the only survivor, a crippled Calvin, finds Baxter s laptop still working despite the viruses. He watches the last remaining skits on the laptop.

This version of the film was released in the U.S. as part of the Blu-ray Disc of Movie 43 as an unrated alternate cut of the film.

• Mark L. Young as Calvin Cutler
• Adam Cagley as J.J.
• Devin Eash as Baxter Cutler
• Fisher Stevens as Vrankovich/Minotaur
• Tim Chou as Chinese Gangster #1
• James Hsu as Chinese Gangster #2
• Nate Hartley as Stevie Schraeder
• Liz Carey as Sitara
• Beth Littleford as Mrs. Cutler

Segments

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The Catch

• Produced and directed by Peter Farrelly, written by Bill O Malley, Rocky Russo, and Jeremy Sosenko

Single businesswoman Beth goes on a blind date with Davis, the city s most eligible bachelor. When they arrive together at a restaurant, Beth is shocked when he removes his scarf, revealing a pair of testicles dangling from his neck. Over dinner, it confuses her that he fails to acknowledge his anatomical abnormality, and nobody seems to be surprised by it. When two friends of Davis come by, one of them convinces him to give Beth a kiss. Davis agrees, but when he kisses her on the forehead, his neck testicles are dangling near Beth s mouth, causing her to scream and break off the kiss.

• Hugh Jackman as Davis
• Kate Winslet as Beth
• Roy Jenkins as Ray
• Rocky Russo as Waiter Jake
• Anna Madigan as Abby
• Julie Claire as Pam
• Katie Finneran as Angie

Homeschooled

• Directed by Will Graham, written by Will Graham & Jack Kukoda

Recently moved in, Sean and Clare have coffee with their new neighbors, Robert and Samantha who have a teenage son, Kevin, whom they home-school. They begin inquiring about the homeschooling, and Robert and Samantha describe how they replicated a full high school experience, going as far as hazing, bullying, ostracizing, and giving out detentions.

To make the experience as awkward as possible, like real high school, they threw parties that excluded Kevin, Samantha instigated Kevin s first kiss and Robert revealed romantic feelings for Kevin. Visibly disturbed, the neighbors end up meeting Kevin, who says he is going out and gives them the impression that all is fine: until he reveals a doll made of a mop with Samantha s face on it, referring to the doll as his girlfriend.

• Jeremy Allen White as Kevin Miller
• Liev Schreiber as Robert Miller
• Naomi Watts as Samantha Miller
• Alex Cranmer as Sean
• Julie Ann Emery as Clare

The Proposition

• Directed by Steve Carr, written by Rocky Russo & Jeremy Sosenko

Julie and Doug have been in a relationship for a year. When he attempts to propose, she reveals that she is a coprophiliac, asking him to defecate on her in the bedroom. Urged by his best friend Larry and others to go along with it, he eats a large meal and drinks a bottle of laxative prior to the event.

Wanting foreplay, Julie is angered when Doug wants to finish, and she runs into the street. Chasing after her, he is then hit by a car and graphically evacuates his bowels everywhere. She cradles him and apologizes; covered and surrounded by his excrement on the road, she exclaims that it is the most beautiful thing she has ever seen and accepts his marriage proposal.

• Anna Faris as Julie (aka Vanessa)
• Chris Pratt as Doug (aka Jason)
• J. B. Smoove as Larry
• Jarrad Paul as Bill
• Maria Arcé as Christine
• Aaron LaPlante as Friend

Veronica

• Directed by Griffin Dunne, written by Matthew Alec Portenoy

Neil is working the night shift at a local grocery store when his ex-girlfriend Veronica comes through his line and they begin arguing. Soon it turns into sexual discussion and flirtation as they lament over their relationship. Unbeknownst to them, Neil s intercom microphone broadcasts the entire explicit conversation throughout the store, where various elderly people and vagrants tune in. After she leaves in tears, the customers agree to cover his shift while he goes after her.

• Kieran Culkin as Neil
• Emma Stone as Veronica
• Arthur French as Old man
• Brooke Davis as Tall lady
• Josh Shuman as Short man

iBabe

• Directed by Steven Brill, written by Claes Kjellstrom & Jonas Wittenmark & Tobias Carlson and Rocky Russo & Jeremy Sosenko

A developing company is having a meeting in their headquarters over their newly released product, the iBabe , a life-sized, realistic replica of a nude woman which functions as an MP3 player. The boss listens to his various workers argue over the placement of a fan that was built into the genital region of the iBabe, which is cutting off the penises of teenage boys who attempt to have sex with them. The board members then agree to strongly emphasize the dangers of the product via its new commercials.

• Richard Gere as Boss
• Kate Bosworth as Arlene
• Jack McBrayer as Brian
• Aasif Mandvi as Robert
• Darby Lynn Totten as Woman
• Marc Ambrose as Chappy
• Cathy Cliften as iBabe #1
• Cherina Monteniques Scott as iBabe #2
• Zach Lasry as Boy

Super Hero Speed Dating

• Co-edited and directed by James Duffy and written by Will Carlough

Robin and his cohort Batman are in Gotham City at a speed dating event seeking out a bomb threat by their nemesis Penguin. While Robin attempts to connect with various women through speed dating including Stacey, Lois Lane, and Supergirl, Batman encounters his ex Wonder Woman and attempts to stop Penguin from detonating Supergirl, who later turns out to be the Riddler in disguise, which Batman already knew and was screwing with Robin, who kissed her moments before Batman exposed the Riddler s ruse. Lois Lane tells Robin on their speed date that six months ago she broke up with Superman, who turns out to be a stalker/sexual predator by ejaculating on her bedroom window. Further playing with the popular discussion of Superman s sperm, like in the film Mallrats, Lois Lane reveals that he uses his semen as a hair gel to keep the spit curl consistent.

• Justin Long as Robin
• Jason Sudeikis as Batman
• Uma Thurman as Lois Lane
• Bobby Cannavale as Superman
• Kristen Bell as Supergirl
• John Hodgman as The Penguin
• Leslie Bibb as Wonder Woman
• Will Carlough as Riddler
• Katrina Bowden as Stacey

Machine Kids

• Written, co-edited, and directed by Jonathan van Tulleken

A faux-Public service announcement about children stuck in machines and how adults criticism of these particular machines affects the feelings of the children stuck inside them. This commercial was paid for by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Inside Machines .

Middleschool Date

• Directed by Elizabeth Banks, written by Elizabeth Wright Shapiro

Nathan and Amanda are watching television after school at his house as their first middle school date. When they begin to kiss, his older brother Mikey enters the living room and makes fun of them. Amanda then discovers she is menstruating and tries to hide it. When Nathan sees blood on her pants, he panics and believes her to be bleeding to death. He causes a debacle, later including Nathan and Mikey s father Steve and Amanda s father.

Amanda calls them out on their stupidity, embarrassed to know that she s getting her first period in front of them and they don t know what to do about it. When she leaves with her father, Nathan yells that the process of keeping the lining of her internal organs intact by inserting his erect phallus into her vagina is much too complicated and Mikey agrees. Steve cheers them up by farting in front of them. As Mikey goes to the bathroom, Nathan and Steve watch a game on television, which has a very graphic Tampax commercial in which a girl gets eaten by a shark due to her menstruating.

• Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Mikey
• Chloë Grace Moretz as Amanda
• Jimmy Bennett as Nathan
• Patrick Warburton as Steve (Nathan and Mikey s father)
• Matt Walsh as Amanda s father

Happy Birthday

• Directed by Brett Ratner, written by Jacob Fleisher

Pete captures a leprechaun for his roommate, Brian, as a birthday present. Tying the leprechaun up in the basement, they demand he gives them a pot of gold. The obscene leprechaun threatens that his brother is coming to save him. When he arrives, Brian and Pete are shot at but ultimately kill both leprechauns. At the end of the segment, Pete reveals he has also caught a fairy who performs fellatio for gold coins.

• Gerard Butler as Leprechaun #1, Leprechaun #2
• Johnny Knoxville as Pete
• Seann William Scott as Brian
• Esti Ginzburg as Storybook fairy

Truth or Dare

• Produced and directed by Peter Farrelly, written by Greg Pritikin

Donald and Emily are on a date together at a Mexican restaurant. Tired of typical first dates, Emily challenges Donald to a game of truth or dare. She dares him to grab a man s buttocks, and he follows by daring her to blow out the birthday candles on a blind boy s cake. The game rapidly escalates to extremes, in which both of them get plastic surgery and tattoos, and humiliate themselves.

When Donald and Emily arrive back at Emily s apartment, they praise their date. Donald tries to kiss her, but she rejects him, claiming she s not attracted to Asian men (which he was surgically altered to resemble). She was joking and invites him to have sex with her as she shows him her enlarged breasts.

• Halle Berry as Emily
• Stephen Merchant as Donald
• Sayed Badreya as Large man
• Snooki as Herself
• Caryl West as Waitress
• Ricki Noel Lander as Nurse Elizabeth
• Paloma Felisberto as Bachelorette party girl
• Jasper Grey as Patron
• Benny Harris as Blanco the bartender
• Zen Gesner as Stripper

Victory s Glory

• Directed by Rusty Cundieff, written by Rocky Russo & Jeremy Sosenko

Set in 1959, Coach Jackson is lecturing his all-black basketball team before their first game against an all-white team. Worried about losing the game, the timid players are lectured by the coach about their superiority in the sport over their white counterparts, which he expresses vulgarly. When the game ensues, the all-white team loses miserably yet rejoices in a single point they earn.

• Terrence Howard as Coach Jackson
• Aaron Jennings as Anthony
• Corey Brewer as Wallace
• Jared Dudley as Moses
• Larry Sanders as Bishop
• Jay Ellis as Lucious
• Brian Flaccus as White guy #1
• Brett Davern as White guy #2
• Evan Dumouchel as White guy #3
• Sean Rosales as White guy #4
• Logan Holladay as White guy #5
• Mandy Kowalski as Cheerleader
• Eric Stuart as Narrator

Beezel

• Written and directed by James Gunn

Played mid-credits, Amy worries that her boyfriend Anson s animated cat Beezel is coming between them. Beezel seems to detest Amy and anyone who comes between him and Anson, but he only sees Beezel as innocent. One day, Amy witnesses Beezel masturbating to summer vacation photos of Anson in a swimsuit. He attacks and violently urinates on her.

Anson still finds his pet innocent but Amy threatens to leave if he doesn t get rid of Beezel. Caring more about his relationship, he agrees to find a new home for him. That night, from a closet, Beezel tearfully watches the couple make love (whilst sodomizing himself with a hairbrush and dry humping a stuffed teddy bear).

The next day when it comes time to take Beezel away, he is nowhere to be found. Amy goes outside to look. Beezel then runs her over with a truck and attempts to kill her with a shotgun, but she chases him into the street and begins beating him with a shovel, which is witnessed by a group of children attending a birthday party at a neighboring house.

When Anson approaches to see what is happening, Amy tries to explain Beezel s motives. He acts innocent and Anson sides with his cat. The children of the party then attack and murder Amy for beating up Beezel, stabbing her with plastic forks. Anson grabs him, as Beezel again fantasizes about French kissing his owner.

• Elizabeth Banks as Amy
• Josh Duhamel as Anson
• Emily Alyn Lind as Birthday girl
• Michelle Gunn as Mommy
• Christina Linhardt as Party clown

Find Our Daughter

• Written and directed by Bob Odenkirk

In this segment that was cut from the film, Maude and George are looking for their breast-flashing daughter Susie with the help of the private eye, who is behind the camera with only one clue which is a small video that features their daughter. The scene was included as an extra on the DVD and Blu-ray release.

• Julianne Moore as Maude
• Tony Shalhoub as George
• Jordanna Taylor as Susie
• Bob Odenkirk as Private Investigator

The Apprentice

• Written and directed by Steve Baker and Damon Escott

The second segment cut from the film follows Wayne, a shy apprentice mortician who is secretly a necrophiliac at the hospital. One night, a body he s having sex with is brought back to life from the pressure of his thrusts. His supervisor Bob suddenly walks in and believes Wayne has performed a life-saving operation of some kind. The staff at the hospital and the media congratulate him while a news reporter asks what he did to save her.

Unable to conjure an answer, one of the cops on scene tells everyone else they can just watch the security tapes to find out. As they rush to the security room, Wayne is given a personal thanks by the girl he revived, upon which he responds with an awkward You re welcome . Unlike Find Our Daughter, this segment was not included in the DVD or Blu-ray release and instead premiered at the 2014 LA Comedy Festival.

• Anton Yelchin as Wayne
• Shane Jacobson as Bob
• Maria Volk as Girl
• Christopher Kirby as Cop

Production

Development

Wessler first came up with the idea for an outrageous comedy made up of several short films in the early 2000s. It s like Funny or Die, only if you could go crazy, judged Farrelly, because with Funny or Die, there are certain limits. And we just wanted to do that kind of short and go much further than that. Charlie Wessler affirmed that he wanted to make a Kentucky Fried Movie for the modern age .

Wessler then recruited three pairs of directors—Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Peter and Bobby Farrelly, and David and Jerry Zucker—to sign on to write and direct one-third of the project each. He then began working out a deal with a studio for the project, but the project did not stick. They ended up calling me about a month after we started negotiating the deal and said we can t do it because they had political pressure to not make R-rated movies that were marketed to teenagers, claimed Wessler. He then went to multiple other studios, but, according to Wessler, no one could understand what was trying to do .

In 2009, Peter Farrelly and producer John Penotti took their pitch—along with about 60 scripts for the vignettes—to Relativity Media. At that meeting, Wessler, Penotti, and Farrelly presented one short that they already had shot, starring Kate Winslet as a woman going on a blind date with a seemingly successful and handsome Hugh Jackman. They just looked at me and said, Go for it, Wessler told The Hollywood Reporter. It takes a lot of balls to make something that is not conventional. Relativity provided $6 million for the film, but no other studio would sign on. Other potential backers , Farrelly revealed, didn t believe it could happen—a movie with Kate Winslet for $6 million?

The film officially began principal photography in March 2010, but due to its large cast, producer/director Farrelly told Entertainment Weekly that This movie was made over four years, and they just had to wait for a year or two years for different actors. They would shoot for a week, and shut down for several months. Same thing with the directors. It was the type of movie you could come back to. Shortly before shooting, writers Parker, Stone, and the Zuckers backed out.

The film ended up with thirteen directors and nineteen writers tied to it, each one co-writing and directing different segments of the sixteen different storylines. Farrelly directed the parts of the movie with Halle Berry and Kate Winslet.

Casting and filming

Wessler spent years recruiting actors for the film. Many turned down the project. Most agents would avoid me because they knew what I wanted to do—what agent wants to book their big client in a no pay, $800-a-day, two-day shoot? he said. The truth is, I had a lot of friends who were in this movie. And if they didn t say yes, this movie wouldn t have gotten made. In the end, most of the actors were willing to take part because the film only required a few days of their time and often allowed them to play a character outside of their wheelhouse.

Hugh Jackman was the first actor Wessler cast. He met the star at a wedding and then called him sometime later and pitched him the short. Jackman read the script and agreed to be a part of the film. He called me back I think 24 hours later and said, Yeah I wanna do this, which I think is, quite frankly, incredibly ballsy. Because you could be made a fool of, or you could look silly, and there will be people who say, That s crazy; he should never have done it.

After talking to the multiple agents of Kate Winslet, she eventually agreed to take part. The Winslet-Jackman sketch was shot shortly after and became the reel to attract other A-list stars.

John Hodgman, who plays opposite Justin Long in one sketch, signed on with no knowledge of the project. Long, Hodgman s co-star in the long-running Get a Mac series of Apple commercials, asked him to do the project, and he then signed on, without still knowing too much. Hodgman said, I got an e-mail from Justin that said, I m going to be dressing up as Robin again. Do you want to dress up as the Penguin? And I said yes. Without even realizing cameras would be involved, or that it would be a movie.

James Gunn revealed during a Facebook Q&A that he was convinced to do the film by Elizabeth Banks and to blame her for it. He added, I didn t even get to edit that stupid thing! He also has never seen the film.

Others were not so affable. In fact, some stars hedged: Richard Gere, a friend of Wessler s, said yes—but also said he would not be available for more than a year. So Wessler waited him out, convinced his sketch was good. Gere eventually called Wessler and told him he was free to shoot, on just a couple of conditions: they had to do it in four days, and they needed to relocate the shoot from Los Angeles to New York City.

They clearly wanted out! judged Farrelly. But we wouldn t let them. The strategy was simple: Wait for them. Shoot when they want to shoot. Guilt them to death. It didn t work on everyone. Colin Farrell initially agreed to be in the Butler leprechaun sketch—as Butler s brother, also a leprechaun—but then he backed out and Gerard Butler did the sketch by himself. Farrelly said that when he approached George Clooney about playing himself in a sketch (the gag was that Clooney is bad at picking up women), Clooney told him No fucking way. There were two sketches cut from the film that were originally shown during a test screening; one that starred Anton Yelchin as a necrophiliac mortician who worked at a hospital and had sex with the dead female bodies, and another starring Julianne Moore and Tony Shalhoub as a married couple being interviewed by a detective about their missing daughter. Producer Penotti said that the sketches would be seen on the DVD and Blu-ray Disc releases of the film, however only the latter was included in the release.

Because the filmmakers worked around the stars schedules, the filming of the whole movie took several years. While so many A-list actors were on board, most were not completely aware of what other sketches would be included in the film, which features thirteen vignettes tied together by a story of a mad screenwriter (Quaid) pitching ideas to a movie producer (Kinnear). Penotti said many of the actors did not ask many questions about what else was going on in the film. They were attracted to their script, and as long as that tickled their funnybone, that was enough, he revealed.

Promotion

The title of the film, Movie 43 has no meaning. Farrelly heard his son talking with friends about a film called Movie 43 , but when Farrelly discovered the film did not exist, he cribbed the name.

Relativity did little to promote the film and none of the cast members did any promotion of the film. The film was not screened for critics in advance. The slapdash title, the lack of promotion and advance screenings, the release date—none of it bodes well, opined Entertainment Weekly senior editor Thom Geier. January is usually where movies go to die, Geier argued. And to go by the trailer—the only option—the content seems dated. A red-band trailer was released on October 3, 2012. Farrelly was optimistic: Kids, teenagers, 50-somethings who still smoke pot—they re all going to find something here, he asserted.

Reception

Critical response

Movie 43 was panned by critics, with some considering it to be one of the worst films ever made. The film received a weighted average score of 18 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 23 critics, signifying overwhelming dislike . On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 4% positive rating based on 89 reviews, with an average rating of 2.74/10. The site s critics consensus states: A star-studded turkey, Movie 43 is loaded with gleefully offensive and often scatological gags, but it s largely bereft of laughs. Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a D rating.

Brian Gibson (Vue Weekly) describes Movie 43 as An execrable waste cooked up by a hell s kitchen of directors and writers. It s death-of-laughter by committee. Its title? Because it s like one of those many asteroids out there—a dismal chunk of rock hurtling through an empty void, without purpose. IGN s Gregg Katzman gave the film a 1/10, with the main criticisms being its unfunny jokes and the waste of its all-star cast, with the only positive being its sub two hour running time. It would go on to tie with Scary Movie 5 for IGN s worst movie of 2013. In his guest review for Roger Ebert s website, Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times outright panned the film, giving it zero out of four stars, calling it aggressively tasteless , and going so far as to say Movie 43 is the Citizen Kane of awful . He wrote that the film has nothing in common with The Groove Tube and The Kentucky Fried Movie, two very funny and influential sketch-comedy films. He additionally criticized Movie 43 for what he calls female humiliation , saying that although the men are jerks, idiots, dolts and fools , the women have it even worse. Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph gave the film 1/5 stars, describing it as the work of a confused man thrashing around in an industry he no longer understands . Peter Howell of the Toronto Star gave the film zero out of four stars and called it the worst film he had ever seen. Elizabeth Weitzman of the New York Daily News gave it a negative review, saying, As a film critic, I ve seen nearly 4,000 movies over the last fifteen years. Right now, I can t think of one worse than Movie 43.

In one of the few positive reviews, Michael O Sullivan of The Washington Post gave the film three and a half out of four stars, calling it a near masterpiece of tastelessness . Alonso Duralde of TheWrap said that the film was gross, juvenile, disgusting, scatological, vile, reprehensible and in the worst possible taste. But heaven help me, I laughed.

Box office

Movie 43 was predicted to debut to less than $10 million, with the studio expecting $8–9 million. It took in $1,810,561 on its opening Friday, far below expectations.

The opening weekend total came to $4,805,878, opening in seventh place. At the end of its run, closing in the United States on March 14, 2013, the film had grossed $8,840,453 domestically and $23,598,535 internationally for a worldwide total of $32,438,988.

Relativity stated that they had already covered all costs with international pre-sales deals and a deal with Netflix.

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominee	Result
2013	Golden Trailer Awards	Trashiest Trailer	Unsee it trailer	Nominated
2014	34th Golden Raspberry Awards	Worst Picture	All filmmakers	Won
		Worst Director	10 of 13 directors	Won
		Worst Screenplay	All screenwriters	Won
		Worst Screen Combo	Entire cast	Nominated
		Worst Actress	Halle Berry (also for The Call)	Nominated
			Naomi Watts (also for Diana)	Nominated

Home media

Movie 43 was released on DVD and Blu-ray in June 2013 in the UK and US.

Year	2013
ReleaseDate	2013-01-25
RuntimeMins	94
RuntimeStr	1h 34min
Plot	A series of interconnected short films follows a washed-up producer as he pitches insane story lines featuring some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.
Awards	Awards, 4 wins & 5 nominations
Directors	Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr
Writers	Rocky Russo, Jeremy Sosenko, Ricky Blitt
Stars	Emma Stone, Stephen Merchant, Richard Gere
Produced by	Marc Ambrose,Jason Barhydt,Ron Burkle,James Duffy,Peter Farrelly,Jason Felts,Michael Garfinkle,Tom Gormican,Ken Halsband,Jacob Jaffke,Ryan Kavanaugh,Brian Kornreich,Justin Long,Jason Macdonald,Ronny Merdinger,John Penotti,Christopher Pia,Rene Rigal,Rocky Russo,Jenny Serneholt,Jeremy Sosenko,Jason Taragan,Tucker Tooley,Jonathan van Tulleken,Melissa Wells,Charles B. Wessler,Tim Williams
Music by	Tyler Bates,Christophe Beck,Leo Birenberg,William Goodrum,Dave Hodge,Matt Jantzen
Cinematography by	Mattian Anderssonn Rudh,Frank G. DeMarco,Steve Gainer,Matthew F. Leonetti,Daryn Okada,William Rexer,Eric Scherbarth,Newton Thomas Sigel,Tim Suhrstedt
Film Editing by	Debra Chiate,Patrick J. Don Vito,Suzy Elmiger,Mark Helfrich,Craig Herring,Myron Kerstein,Jason Macdonald,Joe Randall-Cutler,Sam Seig,Cara Silverman,Sandy S. Solowitz,Jonathan van Tulleken,Håkan Wärn,Paul Zucker
Casting By	Kerry Barden,Paul Schnee
Production Design by	Toby Corbett,Jade Healy,Nolan Hooper,Robb Wilson King,Dina Lipton,Happy Massee,Arlan Jay Vetter,Inbal Weinberg
Set Decoration by	Robert Covelman,Andrea Mae Fenton,Isaac Gabaeff,Amber Haley,Jasmine Ballou Jones,Jean Landry,Lance Lombardo,Jessica Panuccio,Halina Siwolop
Costume Design by	Anna Bingemann,Nancea Ceo,Roseanne Fiedler,Florence Kemper,Judianna Makovsky,Sydney Maresca,Salvador Pérez Jr.
Makeup Department	Rick Allen,Bert Reo Anderson,Monika Blunder,Mark Boley,Kristofer Buckle,Renato Campora,Jenny Cho,LuAnn Claps,Joanne Cocuzza,Becky Cotton,Gabriel De Cunto,Bobby Diehl,Fiona Distefano,Sarah Egan,Maggie Elliott,Ivy Ermert,Kris Evans,Tina Fabulic,Carla Farmer,Camille Friend,Kristina Frisch,Tony Gardner,Melanie Hughes,Timothy Huizing,Yolanda Johnson,Carey Jones,Julie Anna Kehoe,Michael Kriston,Amy Lederman,Fernanda Luz,Michael Marino,Todd Masters,Jenna Menard,Kelley Mitchell,Johnny Mooi,Greg Nicotero,Tijen Osman,Kyra Panchenko,Stephanie Pasicov,Angel Radefeld,Lorna Reid,Sian Richards,Terry Robbins,Andy Schoneberg,Martie Schribner,Susie Sobol,Sarah Stamp,Solina Tabrizi,Jessica Toth,Ryan Trygstad,Linda Villalobos,Kristin Wahl,Nicole Wodowski,Leo Won,Ande Yung,Tanya Cookingham,Lee Gren,Chris Kelly
Production Management	Bryan Davis,Adam Escott,Ken Halsband,Mads Hansen,Trent Hara,Tony Hernandez,Christopher Kulikowski,Neil A. Machlis,Jonathan McCoy,Gary S. Rake,Patrick Stapleton,Michael E. Steele,Pascal Vaguelsy,Charl van der Merve
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director	Adam Escott,Michael Etheridge,James M. Freitag,Greg Guzik,Heidi Hinzman,Ivan Kraljevic,Joshua Lucido,John McKeown,Matthew McLoota,Courtenay Miles,Milos Milicevic,Athena Pesante,Denise Anderson Poore,Gary S. Rake,Patrick Richmond,James B. Rodgers,Maurice Sessoms,T.K. Shom,Daniel Shultz,Michael E. Steele,Nick Vanderpool,Pete Waterman
Art Department	Geoffrey Alderete,Matthew Amenta,Glen Anastasiou,Chloe Arbiture,Corey L. Baker,Jeremy L. Balon,Jeff Barnett,Kathleen Blanco,Tony Bonaventura,Shannon Bowen,Mark Boyle,David Branum,Cory Brown,Wendell Campbell,A. Charles Carmagio,Chris Carriveau,Silvio Censane,Sean Clark,Derrick Cole,Dylan Corbett,Brian Cote,Robert Covelman,Trevor Dawson,Eric Dennis,Michael Dickman,Jem Elsner,Maggie Fine,Craig Gadsby,David Gettens,Scott Girshek,Julia Goldman,Richard Grunn,Kirk Henriques,Eric Hill,George Hobbs,Emmanuelle Hoessly,Jasmine Ballou Jones,John Knoop,Will Kresch,Stephen MacMillin,Becky Martinez,Neil Mather,David M. Milstien,Douglas Mitchell,Racey North,Tommy Obed,Mark Pallatt,Bryan Parsons,Chris Peterson,Dylan Pettengill,Emma Preisner,Jeff Price,Bob Provenzano,Laird Pulver,Bridget Rafferty,Alexa Roman,Mark Seagraves,Roger Shaide,Jefry Shebroe,Max Sherwood,Michael Timman,Kevan Weber,Alexis Weiss,Mark Weissenfluh,James Whelan,Jameson Williams,Warren Drummond
Sound Department	Henry Auerbach,Wade Barnett,Bob Beemer,Javier Bennassar,Adam Blantz,Steve Cantamessa,Paul Timothy Carden,Ryan Collins,Patrick Cusack,Andrew DeCristofaro,Bryan Dembinski,Robert Eber,Tom Fox,Michael Frohberg,Graham Gardner,Nerses Gezalyan,Justin Gray,Dennis Grzesik,Sam Hamer,Ted Hamer,John Hays,Gary A. Hecker,Justin Herman,Claire Houghtalen,Amanda Jacques,Sang Jun Kim,Nick King,David Kirschner,James LaFarge,Tim Limer,Travis MacKay,Steve Nelson,Matthew Nicolay,Nancy Nugent,Eric Offin,Sarah Payan,Michael Payne,Miguel Rivera,Katherine Rose,John Sember,Brad Sherman,Christopher T. Silverman,Tula Snoeck,Bruce Stambler,John C. Stuver,Jon Taylor,Eric Walendzinski,Stacey A. Washer,Olle Westbergh,Joe Cappelletti,Rusty Dunn,Jesse Ehredt,Matt Hovland,Kyle Lane,Nathan Smith,Callie Thurman
Special Effects by	Tom Ceglia,Josh Hakian,William D. Harrison,David Pahoa,Dirk Rogers
Visual Effects by	Holli Alvarado,Swapnil Ambre,Spencer Armajo,Jeff Atherton,Atal Bacchani,Rohan Bediskar,Simon Björk,Vincent Blin,John Bruno,Shome Dasgupta,Bharat De,Rohan Desai,Fefo Desouza,Lendl Desouza,Ujwal W. Dhankute,Vikram Dharankar,Jabberjit Dhillon,Jonas Ekman,Pontus Ekstrand,Nicholas Elwell,Miles Friedman,Ajay Gaikwad,Rakesh Gavand,Carl Granstrom,Jonathan Harris,Chris Ingersoll,Rohinton Irani,Nasir Khan,Sai Krishna,Arunraj Kumar,Bhuvnesh Kumar,Udit Kumar,Yogesh Kumar,Abdul L.,Pratyush L.,Louis Mackall,Scott McLain,Gravit Mehta,Scott Michelson,Midhun,Partha Mondal,Anoop M. Nair,Prashant Nair,Brian Nugent,Robert Olsson,Riaz Patel,Vivek Pundir,Tuhin Rana,Natwar singh Rathore,Anil Rawat,Sai Krishna Rimmalapudi,Johan Rimér,Akash Roy,Akshay Sachdeva,Siva Sankar,Nivruti Shingole,Sachin Shivkar,Josh Singer,Colin Strause,Greg Strause,Shailendra Swarnkar,Merzin Tavaria,Rahul Toraskar,Cliff Welsh,Edson Williams,Francine Almeida,Arunraj,Santosh Choudhary,Varadraj Deorukhkar,Philip Fraschetti,Brian Janelli,Dam Khuman,Prakash Parmar,Pablovsky Ramos-Nieves,Vikash Sharma,Mrityunjay Singh
Stunts	Bob Anderson,Gregg Brazzel,Jennifer Cobb,Mark Ginther,Logan Holladay,Martin Klebba,David Leitch,Roberto Lopez,Dove Meir,John Moio,Eric Norris,Gabriel Pimentel,Frank Torres,Tierre Turner,Billy Wong,Omid Zader,Mandy Kowalski
Camera and Electrical Department	Olga Abramson,Clint Acquistapace,Eric Albert,Vanessa Alexis,Waide R. Allen,Sebastian Amiri,Aaron Ammerman,Joseph Arena,Todd Armitage,Eric Arndt,Kevin Arnold,Jacob Baas,Randy Babchuck,K.C. Bailey,Mark Bain,Patrick Barcroft,Matt Bardocz,Renzo Bartolotta,Daniel Beaman,Charlie Berger,Josh Blakeslee,Neil Bleifeld,Cory Boldroff,Robert Boothe,Arthur Borquez,Len Borruso,Russell Bouchelle,John Bradaric,Mark Brinegar,Shaka Brookes,Oliver Brooks,Charles John Bukey,Travis Cadalzo,Robert Calendro,Steven Capitano Calitri,George Canaday,Patrick Capone,Ian Carmody,Duane Chan-Shue,Chris Chapman,Jesse Chertoff,Anthony Ciurea,Dennis Clark,Gregory Paul Collier,Sal Coniglio,Caswell Cooke,Hector Corona,Daniel Cotreno,Divine Cox,Andreas Crawford,Dylan Crawshay-Williams,Richard Crudo,Gary Dagg,Liz Davis,Rusty Davis,Josh Day,Jon Delgado,Greg Dellerson,Josh Denering,Angelo Di Giacomo,Rachel Donofrie,Joe Doughan,David Dutkus,Peter Elliot,Mike Endler,Kris Enos,Matthew Farrell,Pat Fitzpatrick,Joseph Fleming,Raifi Frank,Kanzler Frazier,Mark Freeman,Steve Gainer,David Ganczewski,Gerrit Garretsen,Lonnie S. Gatlin,Russell Geltman,Craig Gleason,David Goldsmith,Jonathan Gomez,Bob Good,Paul Goodstein,Mark J. Goodwin,Allan Gray,Nikki Gray,Hector Gutierrez,Michael Hare,Matt Hawkins,Ryan Heath,Greg Hess,Jason D. Hodges,Robert Hooven,Nick Huizing,Kevin Huver,Tracy Jackson,Tim Japping,Jennie Jeddry,James Jermyn,Franky Jimenez,James Johenning,Jimi Johnson,Ryan Jones,David Kanner,Lawrence Karman,Zak Katz,Bob King,Denny Kortze,Bob E. Krattiger,Greg Krutz,Michael Langdon,Frederick Lawrence,Abby Levine,Nick Liampetchakul,Robert C. Linke,Alan Locke,Hamilton Longyear,Bill Lowry Jr.,Patrick Lowry,Joey Maloney,Tim Marshall,Brent Matejcek,Guy Maturo,Kevin McClean,Jim McComas,Timothy McCrary,Michael McDonald,Tom McDonnell,Paul McIlvaine,Fred L. McLane,James McMillan,Johnny Medeiros,Ben Medley,Darren Michaels,Jessica Miglio,Mike Milia,Lawrence Montemayor,Ron Morales,Hector Moreno,Megan Morris,Jeff Muhlstock,Paul Murphey,Rob Muthamia,Rick Nagle,Mark Guns Navarette,David Newbert,Kevin Nieliwocki,David W. Nims,Ian O Neill,Mike Orr,Rocco Palmieri,Joseph Paolini,Ashley Pavicic,Anwar Payne,Jeffrey W. Petersen,Daniel Petroni,Aaron Picot,Vincent Pierce,Julie Platner,Tony Ponti,August Popkin,Tony Porto,David Presley,Q,Scott H. Ramsey,Marshall Rao,James Reid,Jason Rez,Dale Roberts,Rachel Roberts,Dale Robinette,Scott Ronnow,Lewis Rothenberg,Magnus Sanger,Mark Santoni,Robert H. Santoro,Simon Scheeline,Lowell Schulman,Gene Schutt,Alex Scott,Wayne Shaub,Ken Shibata,Daimon Shippen,Michele K. Short,Brian Smith,Bob Snowdon,Jirí Solc,Joshua Solson,Phillip Sorenson,Carissa Spatcher,Dante Spinotti,Debbie Stampfle,Chris Stegath,Mike Stockton,Shawn Stone,Kyle Strong,Ryan Strong,Joseph Suarez,Shannon Summers,Paul Swan,Mariana Sánchez de Antuñano,Sean Taylor,Suzanne Tenner,Phil Testa,Mike Thomas,T. Ray Treece,Kat Tyuganova,Sam Urdank,Craig Vaccaro,Nicky Nuckles Vaccaro,Rodney Veto,Edward Viola,Michael Wacks,Darryl Walthall,James Pat Whelan,Shawn Whelan,Alejandro Wilkins,Dylan Williams,Kevin Wilt,David Winner,Justin Wolak,Jaxon Woods,John Woodward,Jeff Muhlstock,Laura Nespola,Joseph Toman,Brett Walters
Animation Department	Nick Bachman,Victor Courtright,Kirsten Holt,Kristoffer Knutson,Mitchell Loidolt,Mike Owens,Evan Palmer,Eyo Peters,Shadi Petosky,Yuchiro Tanabe,Julia Vickerman
Casting Department	Melissa Braun,Rich Delia,Allison Estrin,Michael Fredlund,Allison Hall,Kim Miscia,Suzie Sugerman,Grant Wilfley,Joe Cappelletti,Dawn Marie Deibert,Rich King
Costume and Wardrobe Department	Merav Elbaz Belschner,Tiffany Busche,Eddie Gomez,Maria Hooper,Katie Irish,Glenn Gregory Krah,Brandy Lusvardi,Nancy Malone,Erich A. Muller,Jalene Murphy,Nikia Nelson,Katie Obacz,Hailey Pahoa,Suzy Perry,Maida Pirich,Jennifer L. Soulages,Paula Truman,Stacy L. Tyson,Eli Weiss
Editorial Department	Travis Abels,Steve Ansell,Shaun Aprahamian,Jada Budrick,Ryan Bukowski,Patrick J. Don Vito,Rob Doolittle,Tony Dustin,Mohsen Eletreby,Danny Elhaj,Jason Fabbro,Ashley Farber,Frank Figueroa,Mike Grosshandler,Nancy Jundi,Ron Leidelmeijer,Toni Lipari,Melissa McCaffery,Michael Moncreiff,Ryan Murphy,Steve Picano,Aaron Picot,Justin Quagliata,Mark Sahagun,Gregg Schaublin,Derek M. Schneider,Zared Shai,Stefan Sonnenfeld,John St. Laurent,Matt Thunell,Daniel Triller,Bob Weber,Dan Williams,Martin Wilson,George Zidd,Lance Spindler
Location Management	Danny Daniels,Mike Greene,John Johnson,Eric Klein,Brendan MacDevette,Douglas S. McClintock II,Ezra Mongoliso,David Occhino,Michael M. Piehler,Jay Traynor,Ed Portillo
Music Department	Bob Bowen,Ian Broucek,Shannon Erbe,William Goodrum,Steven A. Saltzman,Happy Walters,Joanne Higginbottom
Script and Continuity Department	Mary A. Kelly,Jan McWilliams,Tony Osso,Chanel Raisin,Bruce Resnik,Kirsten Robinson,Tracy Scott,Kris Smith,Erin Tambellini,Ingrid Urich-Sass,Sharon Watt
Transportation Department	Tony Barattiin,Michael Barrow,Theodor A. Brown,Michael Burnette,Michael Chonos,Chris Collins,Dan Conte,Matthew Cowley,D Aldo Fazzone,Dal Fazzone,Kip Fazzone,Frank Gallardo,George Holtzer,Jeff Honicky,Mike Hyfield,Tony Ingrassellino,Wayne Jackson,Jeremiah LaRoche,Sal Mejia,Chaddon E. Merrick,Jeff Murray,Phelo Ngedle,Jay Nogeras,Thomas Powers,Fred Sanchez,Mike Scalice,William Smallwood,Jared Robbins Transpoman,Tim Woods
Additional Crew	Matthew Ackerson,Francisco E. Alfaro,Will Allgood,Claudia Ambriz,Luis Ambriz,Jose A. Anaya,Dennis Angel,Soroya Anglin,Felicia Baldelli,Sal Baldomar,Jason Barhydt,Cullen Barrie,Donna L. Bascom,Kelley Beaman,Gus Bedenick,Linda Benjamin,Steve Berman,Stephanie Blackwood,Kate Bogle,Dana Bongiovanni,Robbie Brenner,Christopher Brescia,Steven Brill,Amanda Essick Burrell,Erin Michelle Burris,Robert Caballero,Andrew Carbone,Isaac Carlen,Larissa Carson,Manuel Castillo,Jared Cauliffe,Salvatore Ceravolo,Anna S. Chang,Brad Wm. Clark,Eliza Coleman,Jen Confolani,Charles Cresap,Angela Cutrone,Dawn Darfus,Edward De Leon,Raul De Silverio,Ron J. DeGuzman,Edward DeLeon,Alexandra Dell,Alex Dorman,Ellen Dumouchel,Scott Duskin,Sean Emer,Sana Etoile,Wesley Evans,MacKenzie Fallon,Samantha Feltus,Jason Feuerstein,Heather Fielding,Ritchie Steven Filippi,David A. Flores,Alex Friedman,Meghan Fritschy,Arthur J. Gallagher,Jose Gallardo,Keith Gallina,Ted F. Gerdes,Marley Gibbons,Edward E. Giddens,Jeremy Gilbreath,Alanna Gladstone,Rich Glassey,Dan Gloeckner,Gabrielle Glorious,Andrew Godreau,Mario Gomez,Mike Gornican,Himyo Green,Allison Grey,Juan Pierre Grobler,Jennifer Hackney,J. Hanna,Joe Hill,Michael Hogan,Kjrsten Holt,Matthew Honovic,Nolan Hooper,Dwight Hovey,Jordan L. Howard,Kellie Infante,Roy Irwin,Rob Johnson,Philip Joyner,Ray Katz,Isaac Kellman,Shane Kelly,Ashley Kravitz,Jillian Kreitzman,Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic,Bronson Lamb,Joe Landry,Eloy Lara,Wendi Laski,Ryan Lavalette,Rosalind Lawton,Semret Lemma,Peter Letz,Ryan Levee,Gregory Levine,Yarden Levo,Feifei Ling,Guy Logan,Kenny Lynch,Theo Madla,Alejandro Martinez,Alexandreo Martinez,Skylar Mathey,Mike Matos,Greg Maxwell,Beth McManigill,Nicholas McManus,Hanand Mehta,Carla Meyer,Robin E. Michels,Mike Miles,Luis Montenegro,Carolina Maria Mora,Cory C. Myler,Kasia Nabialczyk,Alice Neuhauser,Kelsey Nichols,William Ostroff,J.P. Ouellette,Danny Park,Andrea Peraza,Aaron Picot,Holly Pilch,Jorge Pina,Jose Plasencia,Jess Platt,Rachel Puchkoff,Eva Quiroz,Courtney Rabada,Izak Rappaport,Jared Robbins,Amanda Roberts,Anton Roberts,Javier Rojas,Jaymi Rosano,John Salinas,Greg Schenz,Glenn Schneider,Rachel Schwartz,Alex Schwerin,Anneke Scott,Ed Settle,Christina Siebeneicher,Lisa Simon,John Skidmore,Jeff Sparks,Elizabeth A. Stephens,Adam M. Stone,Cat Stone,Desirée Stone,Paul Straw,Jason Suhrke,Joey Talbot,Nick Tolmasov,Anthony Torre,Greg Trattner,Mike Tristano,Carrie Tyson,Suzanne Van Dyke,Clay Van Sickle,Lior Vardi,James Warren,Bob Weber,Aaron Weiss,Denise Wheeler,Nick Paul White,Cindy Wilkinson Kirven,Lynn Witty,Peter Chun Mao Wu,Jeff Yang,Sara DeRosa,A.M. Driver,Mela Lee,Jeff Maynard,Tina Mirfarsi,Tara Erica Moore,Nate O Mahoney,Marlaine Reiner,Justine Winkler
Thanks	Julien Alfredo Beckman,Sheila Benson,Xavier Collin,Aaron Colodne,Beno Colodne,Lexi Colodne,Mike Delaney,Jon Fauer,John Fishburn,Carrie Frances Fisher,Brooke Halsband,Jacob Halsband,Tom Kartsotis,Britta Lazenga,Michael Moncreiff,Jeff Nathanson,Carolina Rezende,Maruta Taube,Bill Tooley,James Tooley,Jasper Tooley,Patrick Tooley,Reva Tooley,Tessa Tooley,Kit Van Tulleken,Tony Van Tulleken
Genres	Comedy
Companies	Relativity Media, Virgin Produced, GreeneStreet Films
Countries	USA
Languages	English
ContentRating	R
ImDbRating	4.3
ImDbRatingVotes	105980
MetacriticRating	18
Keywords	female frontal nudity,upskirt,irreverence,teenage girl,kissing in public