Taglines: They did everything but delete it.
Sex Tape is an American comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan and written by Kate Angelo, Jason Segel, and Nicholas Stoller. Starring Segel, Cameron Diaz, Rob Corddry, Ellie Kemper, and Rob Lowe, the film was released on July 18, 2014, by Columbia Pictures.
Principal photography began on September 12, 2013 in Newton, Massachusetts. Hank’s house is situated in the western suburb of Weston, Massachusetts. Jason Segel was considered for the male lead while Reese Witherspoon, Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Rose Byrne, and Jennifer Garner were all considered for the female lead. In March 2012, Jake Kasdan was announced as the director for the film. At the time, Cameron Diaz had been named as a possibility for the role of Segel’s wife, but she entered negotiations only in April 2013.
Jay (Jason Segel) and Annie (Cameron Diaz) are a couple who have sex at every chance they can get. After having two children, they have fewer opportunities to have sex. While the children are away one night, they try to reignite their sex life. After Jay struggles to get an erection, Annie suggests making a sex tape.
They film themselves having sex in every position listed in The Joy of Sex. After Annie asks Jay to delete the tape, he ends up instead inadvertently synchronizing the video to several iPads the couple had given away over time. After failing to get it out of the cloud, they set out to get back all of the gifted iPads, leading to a series of awkward encounters and close calls.
After collecting the iPads and deleting the videos, their neighbor’s son threatens to upload their sex tape to YouPorn unless they give him $25,000. After failing to get the money, they break into the YouPorn headquarters and begin to destroy their servers. Their plan is quickly thwarted when an alarm sounds. The owner (Jack Black) and his cronies confront them and threaten to call the police, but agree not to do so in exchange for $15,000 to cover the damage.
He also removes their video and explains that all they had to do to have a video removed was send him an e-mail request for such removal. After they have deleted all but one copy of the video, Jay and Annie decide to watch the video once themselves. Afterwards, they take the USB flash drive containing the video and go outside to smash it with a hammer, blend it, burn it with fire, and bury the pieces.
Sex Tape
Directed by: Jake Kasdan
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, Rob Corddry, Ellie Kemper, Rob Lowe, Nancy Lenehan, Giselle Eisenberg
Screenplay by: Kate Angelo, Jason Segel, Nicholas Stoller
Production Design by: Jefferson Sage
Cinematography by: Tim Suhrstedt
Film Editing by: Steve Edwards, Tara Timpone
Costume Design by: Debra McGuire
Set Decoration by: Kyra Friedman Curcio, Linda Lee Sutton
Music by: Michael Andrews
MPAA Rating: R for strong sexual content, nudity, language and some drug use.
Studio: Sony Pictures
Release Date: July 18th, 2014
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