''Get Him to the Greek'' is a 2010 American

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written, produced and directed by

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and starring

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and

Jonah Hill Jonah Hill Feldstein (born December 20, 1983) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is known for his comedic roles in films including ''Superbad (film), Superbad'' (2007), ''Knocked Up'' (2007), ''21 Jump Street (film), 21 Jump Stre ...

. Released on June 4, 2010, the film is a spin-off

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of Stoller's 2008 film ''

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'', reuniting director Stoller with stars Hill and Brand and producer

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. Brand reprises his role as character Aldous Snow from ''Forgetting Sarah Marshall'', while Hill plays an entirely new character referred to as Aaron Green instead of Matthew Van Der Wyk. The film also stars

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, and

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Plot

In 2009,

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rock star Aldous Snow releases his new album and a titular single, "African Child", which is a commercial and critical failure. In an interview, his girlfriend, pop star Jackie Q, drunkenly declares they have a boring life. Aldous relapses, ending their relationship and losing custody of his son, Naples. Meanwhile, in

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, Aaron Green is a

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at Pinnacle Records, living with his girlfriend Daphne, who is completing a

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at a local hospital. Pinnacle is performing poorly, and the head of the company, Sergio Roma, asks for ideas. Aaron suggests Aldous play at the

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on the tenth anniversary of a performance there in 1999. Sergio sends Aaron to

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to escort Aldous to Los Angeles. Daphne informs Aaron that she has received a residency job offer in

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and that they are moving there. They argue and seemingly break up. Aaron meets Aldous and learns that he had not been expecting him, thinking that the concert was not for two months. They bar-hop across the city as Aaron tries to get Aldous to catch a flight to

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. Aaron and Aldous go to New York City for Aldous's appearance on ''

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''. To keep him sober, Aaron imbibes all of Aldous's alcohol and drugs. While performing live, Aldous is unable to remember the lyrics to "African Child", and replaces it with an old hit, "The Clap", to cheers from the audience. Daphne calls Aaron to apologize, only to learn that he believes they broke up. While partying, Aaron's phone accidentally calls Daphne, informing her of his drunken activities. On their flight to Los Angeles, Aaron learns that Aldous has become depressed, as he misses his son and has been alienated from his own father, Jonathan, for years. Aaron suggests he visit him after the show; instead, Aldous insists they go to

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to see Jonathan. Sergio, having been keeping tabs on the two, arrives to take control of the situation. Meanwhile, Aldous and Jonathan argue over Jonathan's seeming disinterest in his son outside of his career and his mockery of Aldous's mother. Sergio hooks Aaron up with a sexually violent girl, Destiny, who takes him to a hotel room and rapes him. After Aaron tells Aldous that he has been raped, Aldous gives him a laced marijuana joint to calm him down. He has a

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, causing a fight that inadvertently sets the hotel lounge on fire. Believing he is having a

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, Aldous attempts to help Aaron by giving him an

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shot. They flee a drugged up Sergio to Los Angeles, where Aaron convinces Aldous to visit Jackie Q. She has been sleeping with

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's drummer,

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, and confesses that Naples is not actually Aldous's biological son. Meanwhile, Aaron goes to his home to apologize to Daphne. They are interrupted when Aldous arrives, proposing a

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. Daphne agrees and Aaron hesitantly goes along. Aaron angrily decides to kiss Aldous, ending the tryst. Daphne and Aaron both immediately regret it, and Aaron angrily tells Aldous to go, criticizing his mental state. Instead of preparing for his show, he goes to the rooftop of the

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, and calls Aaron, threatening to jump. Aaron rushes to the hotel and attempts to talk him down. Aaron arrives, in time to stop Aldous from jumping. Nevertheless, Aldous jumps into a pool several floors down, breaking his arm. Aldous tells him that he is lonely, sad, and embarrassed, but is reminded that thousands of fans love him and are waiting to see him. Aldous decides to perform at the Greek Theatre, although Aaron pleads for him to go to the hospital. Upon their arrival, Sergio offers Aaron drugs to give to Aldous so he will not cancel the concert. Aaron, tired of Sergio's abuse, quits on the spot, then walks stage-side with Aldous, trying to convince him to go to the hospital. However, seeing how happy Aldous is while performing, he heads home to reconcile with Daphne. Months later, Aldous, sober again, has returned to fame with a single produced by Aaron based on events from their night in Las Vegas.

Cast

as Aaron Green, a record company

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as Aldous Snow, a free-spirited rock star with a faltering career who first appears in ''

'' *

as Daphne Binks, Aaron's girlfriend *

as Jackie Q, a scandalous pop star, Aldous's on and off girlfriend and Naples's mother *

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as Sergio Roma, a record company owner and Aaron's boss who assigns him to manage Aldous *

Aziz Ansari Aziz Ismail Ansari (; born February 23, 1983) is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He is known for his role as Tom Haverford on the NBC series ''Parks and Recreation'' (2009–2015) and as creator and star of the Netflix series ''Master ...

as Matty Briggs, one of Aaron's co-workers *

Nick Kroll Nicholas Kroll (born June 5, 1978) is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He is known for creating and starring in the Comedy Central series ''Kroll Show'', ''The Oh, Hello Show'', the FX comedy series ''The Lea ...

as Kevin McLean, one of Aaron's co-workers *

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as one of Aaron's co-workers *

Kali Hawk Kali Hawk (born October 4, 1986) is an American actress, comedian, model and jewelry designer. She has starred in films such as ''Fifty Shades of Black'', ''Couples Retreat'', ''Bridesmaids'' and ''Tyler Perry Presents Peeples''. She recurred as ...

as Kali Coleman, one of Aaron's co-workers *

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as Jazz Man, one of Aaron's co-workers *

as Jonathan Snow, Aldous's father *

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as Aldous's assistant *

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as Destiny, a

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as Brian, a hotel clerk *

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as Brian's roommate *

Lino Facioli Lino Schmidek Machado Facioli (born 29 July 2000) is a Brazilian-British actor. He is best known for portraying Lord Robin Arryn in '' Game of Thrones'' and Naples in ''Get Him to the Greek''. Biography Facioli was born in Ribeirão Preto, S ...

as Naples, Jackie Q and Aldous's son, later revealed to have been fathered by a photographer *

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as a ''

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'' production assistant *

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as Pocket Dial Girl * Dinah Stabb as Lena Snow, Aldous's mother

Cameo guest stars

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as Sarah Marshall, an actress and Aldous's former girlfriend *

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* Kurt F. Loder *

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* Rachel Roberts Brand's friends Karl Theobald, Greg "Mr Gee" Sekweyama and

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also appear in the film.

Production

Development

A week after the release of ''

'',

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announced a new film, ''Get Him to the Greek'', reuniting

and

with writer/director

and producer

. ''

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'' initially announced the project would focus on "fresh-out-of-college insurance adjuster (Hill) who is hired to accompany an out-of-control rock star (Brand) from London to a gig at L.A.'s

." In July 2008, Brand mentioned that he would be reprising his Aldous Snow role from ''Forgetting Sarah Marshall'', in a new film from Apatow in which the character was back on drugs. In an interview with ''CHUD.com'', Apatow would later reveal that ''Get Him to the Greek'' was indeed a spin-off of ''Forgetting Sarah Marshall'' with Brand again playing a no-longer-sober Aldous Snow while in a different interview Nicholas Stoller said that

will play a different character named Aaron Green, a young music executive.

Filming

While Brand was backstage at the Paramount studio lot preparing to present the

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, he approached

, and

about filming cameos for ''Get Him to the Greek''. Rehearsals began on April 27, 2009 and filming began on May 12 of that year. The film was shot in

and

. News footage featured in the film was filmed after a Russell Brand stand up performance of "Scandalous" at the O2 Arena in London, which most of the audience stayed for. While filming in

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, Brand was pushed into a fountain by a passerby.

Release

The film was released on June 4, 2010 in the United States. It was released on DVD on September 28, 2010.

Reception

Box office

''Get Him to the Greek'' grossed $61 million in the United States and Canada and $30.7 million overseas bringing its worldwide total to $91.7 million, against a production budget of $40 million. ''Get Him to the Greek'' was released alongside '' Killers'' and ''

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'', and in its opening weekend debuted second at the box office behind ''

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'' with $17.6 million. The film fell to fourth the following week with a weekend gross of $10.1 million. In the UK, ''Get Him to the Greek'' opened at No. 1 grossing £1.6 million in its first week before dropping to No. 2 the following week with takings of £1 million.

Critical response

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, ''Get Him to the Greek'' has an approval rating of 73% based on 203 reviews, with an average rating of 6.30/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Thanks to a suitably raunchy script and a pair of winning performances from Jonah Hill and Russell Brand, ''Get Him to the Greek'' is one of the year's funniest comedies." On

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, the film has a weighted average score of 65 out of 100, based on 39 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by

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gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.

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of the ''

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'' gave the film three out of four stars, writing: "under the cover of slapstick, cheap laughs, raunchy humor, gross-out physical comedy and sheer exploitation, ''Get Him to the Greek'' also is fundamentally a sound movie." A scene in which Jonah Hill is forcibly raped has been lambasted by critics as being "particularly egregious" and "horrific" and of furthering

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by "reinforc(ing) cultural myths surrounding the acceptance of rape."

Home media

A 2-disc and 1-disc unrated and theatrical version of the film was released on

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and

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on September 28, 2010.

Music

Soundtrack

Kim Garner, the senior vice president of marketing and artist development at

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, said that Brand and Universal Pictures "felt very strongly about doing something like this as opposed to a traditional soundtrack," and that they "wanted to release it like we would an actual rock band's album." The following songs were featured in the film, but not included in the soundtrack: # " And Ghosted Pouts (Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt)" by

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