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FilmPG-132004
Along Came Polly
Directed by John Hamburg
Reuben Feffer is a guy who's spent his entire life playing it safe. Polly Prince is irresistible as a free-spirit who lives for the thrill of the moment. When these two comically mismatched souls collide, Reuben's world is turned upside down, as he makes an uproarious attempt to change his life from middle-of-the-road to totally-out-there. From TMDB
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Along Came Polly is a 2004 comedy romance film, directed by John Hamburg, starring Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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60 of 74 · most liked firstShare a COMEDY movie title that begins with the letter “A” 🎥 A is for… Along Came Polly ❤️
neutral · AI labelView post →went to Eastern Market, got froyo, took a walk in the glorious sunshine. allergies hit, so i took a benadryl (zonked out), made chicken stir fry, and now we’re about to watch Along Came Polly (2004). i love this movie so much hahaha it's so funny and underrated lol. RIP PSH.
positive · AI labelView post →What he did with the words on the page (while battling cancer!) as M. Bison in Street Fighter was one of the best performances in a bad film I’ve ever seen, in an elite class with PSH in Along Came Polly
neutral · AI labelView post →Pick a movie, keep one actor - the rest are muppets Along Came Polly Philip Seymour Hoffman
neutral · AI labelView post →Philip Seymour Hoffman is the only reason Along Came Polly is a culturally relevant film. No one can remember anything about this film besides him.
neutral · AI labelView post →#MarchMovieChallenge#Moviesky Day 27. Somebody dances to Latin music in a movie Along Came Polly I think it was Latin?
neutral · AI labelView post →To be clear, Dafoe rules and I love him! But to your point, after college my roommates and I watched Along Came Polly on HBO On Demand some hungover Saturday afternoon. Not a great movie but he’s so goddamn funny in it that 3-4 of his lines are still referenced with those friends 20 years later.
neutral · AI labelView post →Along Came Polly is a truly unique movie. It’s better than it should be, grosser than it needs to be, Philip Seymour Hoffman is it in? And he was hilarious? It’s so incredibly, wildly dumb yet genuinely sweet. I can’t believe it even exists in our lifetimes.
positive · AI labelView post →Watched the softcore flick Bad Girls at Play earlier and Tabitha Stevens is performing on a different plane of greatness than anyone else who’s walking through that movie The best parallel would be Phillip Seymour Hoffman in Along Came Polly. everyone else is sleepwalking and he’s owning a film
neutral · AI labelView post →Re: accurate portrayals of professions in movies, the only actuary in a movie is Jack Nicholson in About Schmidt (Ben Stiller in Along Came Polly was not an actuary contrary to public perception). Can confirm you get jaded in your boring insurance job and end up in a hot tub with naked Kathy Bates
neutral · AI labelView post →I have this false, Berenstein style memory of Along Came Polly or another late 90s comedy having a trailer with this joke in video form. If this happened please let me know I'm not crazy.
neutral · AI labelView post →The third movie in the Manic Pixie Dream Girl Project at Nathan Rabin's Bad Ideas is Jennifer Aniston in Along Came Polly, which ended Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King's reign at the box office but left behind a slightly smaller cultural footprint. nathanrabin.substack.com/p/mpdg-jenni...
neutral · AI labelView post →#MarchMovieChallenge Day 27 - Someone dances to Latin 🎶 in a movie Ben Stiller in Along Came Polly 😆👏🏼
neutral · AI labelView post →Yep. Completely agree with that. I hate the real Lester Bangs. For me, that movie was worth it for Philip Seymour Hoffman being brilliant. He could lift ANYTHING up to stellar level. Never gave a single bad performance in anything no matter how bad it was. Case in point: Along Came Polly.
neutral · AI labelView post →If you haven’t seen Along Came Polly, watch it. PSH steals the movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Feb 20 : Character is a pet owner #Bales2025FilmChallenge #FilmSky #MovieSky 📽️ 🎬 #AlongCamePolly (2004) Reuben falls in love with old classmate Polly who has Rodolfo, a rather inquisitive ferret as a pet. [1/3] www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddGw...
neutral · AI labelView post →You kids wanna know how good Philip Seymour Hoffman was? He made ALONG CAME POLLY funny for those parts he was in it. Nobody liked that movie. Everyone knew it sucked, even for a Ben Stiller movie, which is saying something.
neutral · AI labelView post →Along Came Polly is a better movie than Disclosure Day. #LastFourFriday #LetterboxdFridays
positive · AI labelView post →Film 50: Along Came Polly. I am just a sucker for a Jennifer Aniston film #FilmSky
positive · AI labelView post →Along Came Polly for worst film. The Butterfly Effect for worst experience - a jump scare made him crack my rib. I should have called it there but I was a teenager 🤷
neutral · AI labelView post →Why is this Hulu Stiller movie so serious; he never even did the Along Came Polly dance.
neutral · AI labelView post →Someone's been watching *Along Came Polly* (2004).
neutral · AI labelView post →^ in the piece I cited the film "Along Came Polly" to give ppl a frame of reference of what that professional role might look like.
neutral · AI labelView post →@stephaniemiller.bsky.social Hey hey 👋🏻. I believe the Ben Stiller movie you were thinking of where he clogs the toilet is Along Came Polly. 👍🤗
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie Along Came Polly debuted in 2004. Given that year I was worried when a gay man became part of the plot. It was handled quite well. Very respectful.
positive · AI labelView post →Philip Seymour Hoffman vs... The movie: Along Came Polly The opponent: This whole board room The scene: "...or will this base-jumping, crocodile-wrestling, shark-diving, volcano-luging, bear-fighting, snake-wrangling, motocross-racing bastard die?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKG3...
neutral · AI labelView post →That man was a genius. Even in a dumb fun movie like ALONG CAME POLLY he was a genius.
neutral · AI labelView post →Yeah! He was working those shorts in that movie and he still looked great in Along Came Polly 😍 And he is soooo phenomenal with the multitude of voices he can do in one movie. It’s insane!!!
neutral · AI labelView post →Can you also take a stand that Along Came Polly (2006) was PSH’s best film?
neutral · AI labelView post →They initially wanted to name him "Shart Bimpson" but considering the show was called "The Simpsons" and the film "Along Came Polly" had yet to be released so the general public was unfamiliar with the term "shart," they went with "Bart Simpson" and the rest, as they say, is history.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Phillip Seymour Hoffman scenes from Along Came Polly are collectively one of the greatest comedies of the 2000’s, but you really must judiciously avoid watching every other scene in the movie
neutral · AI labelView post →PSH performance in Along Came Polly was the movie equivalent of Steve Carlton on the 1972 Phillies
neutral · AI labelView post →#watched Along Came Polly is so much better than I considered it back in the day. Once upon a time I thought it was a great PSH performance with some boring shit around it, but there's so much funny in this flick. I can't help but love a movie with a blind ferret doing pratfalls. #filmskt
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight’s #movie - ALONG CAME POLLY (2004), starring Ben Stiller, Debra Messing, Jennifer Aniston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Hank Azaria; dir. John Hamburg
neutral · AI labelView post →dear GOD I just went and looked at IMDB and HFS the movies I didn't even remember him in. Movies that I will guess do NOT make the grade: - Any Hunger Games movies (even though he was great in a bit part chewing scenery) - Along Came Polly (don't even remember him in that non-memorable movie TBH)
negative · AI labelView post →Body goals: Hank Azaria in the film Along Came Polly
neutral · AI labelView post →Along Came Polly is an extremely not good movie but remains worth watching because Philip Fucking Seymour Hoffman utterly crushes a role that was clearly written for Jack Black
negative · AI labelView post →The (movie) Along Came Polly 1080p (iTunes)(AU) AU$4.99 (Comedy) (iMDB) 6.0 Cast: Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Debra Messing, Alec Baldwin, Hank Azaria
neutral · AI labelView post →The (movie) Along Came Polly 1080p (iTunes)(DE) €3.99 (Comedy) (iMDB) 6.0 Cast: Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Debra Messing, Alec Baldwin, Hank Azaria
neutral · AI labelView post →I think this everytime I watch Along Came Polly and I see that same actress from that movie 😆
neutral · AI labelView post →Remember in Along Came Polly when Phillip Seymour Hoffman's character hired a film crew to do a documentary on him. This is just like that.
neutral · AI labelView post →The (movie) Along Came Polly 1080p (iTunes)(AU) AU$4.99 (Comedy) (iMDB) 6.0 Cast: Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Debra Messing, Alec Baldwin, Hank Azaria
neutral · AI labelView post →So for years this was Along Came Polly, a film full of my least-favourite comedy tropes that I just thought was horrendously bad. Then I ended up accidentally rewatching it a couple of years ago, and it's just kinda mediocre. Like, it's maybe a low-two. Not the epochal cataclysm I remembered.
negative · AI labelView post →The (movie) Along Came Polly 1080p (iTunes)(CA) C$4.99 (Comedy) (iMDB) 6.0 Cast: Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Debra Messing, Alec Baldwin, Hank Azaria
neutral · AI labelView post →The (movie) Along Came Polly 1080p (iTunes)(US) $4.99 (Comedy) (iMDB) 6.0 Cast: Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Debra Messing, Alec Baldwin, Hank Azaria
neutral · AI labelView post →Here's the problem with Along Came Polly: PSH : incredible Alec Baldwin : hilarious Hank Azaria : amazing And this movie absolutely fucking blows.
negative · AI labelView post →Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #AlongCamePolly #TheSwitch 10 Worst Movies That Tried to Be 'When Harry Met Sally' http://dlvr.it/TPcbsZ
neutral · AI labelView post →I have been watching a lot of the movie The Devil Wears Prada. I actually bought the movie to make me smile with Along Came Polly, Black Dynamite, Horrible Bosses , The Hangover and Bridesmaids when I was going through chemotherapy. Stanley Tucci is a gem.
neutral · AI labelView post →Oct 4 : Gorgeous Sweater fashion #Bales2025FilmChallenge #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬 #AlongCamePolly (2004) It's not only humans that can wear great sweaters, Polly's pet ferret, Rodolfo is also a sweater connoisseur. [1/2]
neutral · AI labelView post →Oct 4 : Gorgeous Sweater fashion #Bales2025FilmChallenge #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬 #AlongCamePolly (2004) It's not only humans that can wear great sweaters, Polly's pet ferret, Rodolfo is also a sweater connoisseur. [2/2]
neutral · AI labelView post →Along Came Polly is my favorite Ben Stiller movie
positive · AI labelView post →Sep 14 : Dancing 💃🕺 or #PatrickSwayze #Bales2025FilmChallenge #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬 ➡️Honorary Mention for giving it a go ⬅️ #AlongCamePolly (2004) Reuben Feffer takes old classmate Polly Prince salsa dancing. Caution - 🤣 🤣 #BenStiller #JenniferAniston [2/2]
neutral · AI labelView post →"I’d have given Hoffman his Oscar for a different movie—maybe 2004’s Along Came Polly, in which he didn’t so much lower himself to the generic material as meet it with humility and enthusiasm on its own terms." www.theringer.com/2025/08/26/m...
neutral · AI labelView post →July 28 : Characters dancing or at a show 💃🕺 #Bales2025FilmChallenge #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬 #AlongCamePolly (2004) Reuben shows off his salsa moves to Polly. #BenStiller #JenniferAniston
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie idea. After his surprising death, they finally released the documentary footage about Sandy Lyle from Along Came Polly.
neutral · AI labelView post →Occasionally I remember there is a subplot of the terrible movie Along Came Polly where Phillip Seymour Hoffman plays Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar, and damn I really want to see that show.
neutral · AI labelView post →On this piece I mentioned "risk assessments" as an example in the film Along Came Polly to better understand the institutionalization of these algorithms through structures like insurance www.patreon.com/posts/896282...
neutral · AI labelView post →He makes me think of the crazy rich old dude in the movie Along Came Polly.
neutral · AI labelView post →What’s y’all favorite Ben Stiller movie? 👀 I gotta go with The Heartbreak Kid but Along Came Polly is a close second 😂
positive · AI labelView post →Feb 20 : Character is a pet owner #Bales2025FilmChallenge #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬 #AlongCamePolly (2004) Reuben falls in love with old classmate Polly who has Rodolfo, a rather inquisitive ferret as a pet. [1/3]
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