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For his romantic performance in this teen romantic comedy, Mark Ruffalo was nominated for three Teen Choice Award, for Choice Movie Actor Comedy,for Choice Movie Chemistry, for Choice Movie Liplock. It stars Jennifer Garner opposite him who also got nominated for MTV Movie Award as well as Teen Choice Award. The cast also includes Judy Greer, Andy Serkis, and Kathy Baker. It was directed by Gary Winick and produced by Susan Arnold, Donna Arkoff Roth and Gina Matthews. It was written by Josh Goldsmith, Cathy Yuspa and Judd Winick. It was made by Revolution Studios and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It was released on April 23, 2004 in the United States with a budget of $37,000,000 and earned $96,455,697 in gross revenue. It has 65% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with 161 reviews and 6.1 star rating on IMDb. The movie is also known as Suddenly 30 in Australia and Sugar and Spice in some other places.
It is a romantic fantasy movie which has similar premise to such movies as Wish Upon a Star and Freaky Friday and such classic short story as Rip Van Winkle. The movie shows that a girl falls asleep and wakes up 17 years later as an older person, who is a successful magazine editor. In the movie, Mark Ruffalo plays the character of Matt Flamhaff and Jenna Rink is played by Jennifer Garner. For this same role other actresses such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Hilary Swank, and Renee Zellweger were also considered for the part of Jenna Rink. The movie faced competition from another hit teen comedy, Mean Girls. The movie never the less went on to become of the year's biggest DVD rentals and sellers. Entertainment Weekly gave it an A- rating and the others went on to give positive to favorable reviews.
The movie does not disappoint the audience at all. It is a light hearted affair. It is very good for a fun time with your friends and loved ones. This one movie that a person can see over and over again and yet not get bored from watching it all the time. The performance of Jennifer Garner has been delivered with much authenticity to the role and innocence of the character that has to be kept.
