Daily Dialogue — February 27, 2015

“I don’t want to shop at old lady stores. I don’t want to go to J. Jill and Chico’s and Ann Taylor.”

— This is 40 (2012), written by Judd Apatow

The Daily Dialogue theme for next week: Birthday.

Trivia: The main characters from “Knocked Up”, Ben (Seth Rogen) and Alison (Katherine Heigl), do not appear in this “sort-of sequel”, but references to both characters are made: A picture of Alison can be seen on the wall and Pete plays Scrabble on his iPad with Ben and later mentions getting marijuana cookies from Ben. Three other, more minor characters from Knocked Up, do appear in this movie as well: Charlyne Yi’s character Jodi (an amiable stoner in Knocked up; now an employee in Debbie’s store), Jason Segel’s character Jason (one of Ben’s best friends with a crush on Debbie in Knocked Up; now Debbie’s personal trainer) and Tim Bagley reprises his role as OB/GYN Dr. Pellagrino.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Why is it some birthdays are cause for celebration while others fill people with dread? Here it’s the ‘dreaded’ 40th birthday. Also interesting how certain birthdays are a time for reflection, a point in time to consider the choices one has made… or not made.

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