Everything You Need To Know About Zack and Miri Make a Porno …As It Relates To You And Your World The Actors, Director, Info, Reviews, and Photos

Zack and Miri are two lifelong friends who are deep in debt and enlist the help of their friends to make a porno movie for some quick cash. But as they do, Zack and Miri realize that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously thought. MPAA Rating: R For strong crude sexual content including dialogue, graphic nudity and pervasive language Photos © 2008 The Weinstein Company. Review © David Bruce

SETH ROGEN (Zack) SETH ROGEN (Zack)  He began his career doing stand- up comedy  He landed a job as a staff writer on the final season of Da Ali G Show  He has described his parents, who met at an Israeli kibbutz, as "radical Jewish socialists" Photos © 2008 The Weinstein Company. Review © David Bruce

ELIZABETH BANKS (Miri Linky) ELIZABETH BANKS (Miri Linky)  Known for her roles in Seabiscuit, Heights, the Spider-Man films  She appeared as First Lady Laura Bush in Oliver Stone's biopic on the life of President George W. Bush, W.  Converted to Judaism upon marrying her husband Photos © 2008 The Weinstein Company. Review © David Bruce

JASON MEWES (Lester) JASON MEWES (Lester)  The vocal half of Jay and Silent Bob  A longtime friend Kevin Smith Photos © 2008 The Weinstein Company. Review © David Bruce

KEVIN SMITH (Director/Writer/Editor) KEVIN SMITH (Director/Writer/Editor)  Made his first film, CLERKS, for $27,575, in New Jersey back in 1994  He was raised in an Irish Catholic  He only goes to mass on the day before he starts production of a movie, and the day before it premieres Photos © 2008 The Weinstein Company. Review © David Bruce

 KEVIN SMITH (Director/Writer/Editor)  SCOTT MOSIER (Producer)  DAVE KLEIN (Director of Photography)  ROBERT HOLTZMAN (Production Designer)  SALVADOR PEREZ (Costume Designer) Photos © 2008 The Weinstein Company. Review © David Bruce

This is the first Kevin Smith film produced without any rehearsal time prior to shooting  This is the first Kevin Smith film produced without any rehearsal time prior to shooting Smith attributes this lack of rehearsals to his confidence in the quality of his actors  Smith attributes this lack of rehearsals to his confidence in the quality of his actors Photos © 2008 The Weinstein Company. Review © David Bruce

Lifelong friends and roommates Zack (Seth Rogen) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks) are facing hard times and a mountain of debt. Photos © 2008 The Weinstein Company. Review © David Bruce

When the electricity and plumbing get cut off, they knew they had to something. Photos © 2008 The Weinstein Company. Review © David Bruce

They seize upon the idea of making a homegrown porno movie for some quick cash, enlisting the help of their friends. Photos © 2008 The Weinstein Company. Review © David Bruce

The two vow that the video project will not ruin their platonic friendship. Photos © 2008 The Weinstein Company. Review © David Bruce

But as filming begins, what started out as a business proposition between friends turns into something much more. Photos © 2008 The Weinstein Company. Review © David Bruce

Consensus voice: "It's a classic love story dressed up as something a bit racier, and not only do we know where it's going, we know just how it plans to get there." -- Rossiter Drake, San Francisco Examiner Photos © 2008 The Weinstein Company. Review © David Bruce

LOVE HAPPENS. LOVE IS CENTRAL It is vintage Kevin Smith. There is filth and raunchiness and sexually explicit material, but his films have all-at their core-been about loving relationships either between best friends or romantic interests. In this film you get both: best friends who become love interests. Photos © 2008 The Weinstein Company. Review © David Bruce

Ohh, porn! Knee jerk reaction to it is always negative. All though this film is a romance story, and not a porn movie, it does deal with porn. In the story, Zack and Miri attempt to do a porn film for financial reasons. In other words, the film looks at reasons why someone might become involved with porn. Actually, such an examination is good. Are you into porn? Does it consume too much of your time and energy? Do artificial relationships take place over real intimacy? If so, you need to explore the reasons why it has such a place in your life. You need to be in control, rather than to be controlled by an obsession. Be free. Review © David Bruce

THIS FILM IS ABOUT LOVE BETWEEN PEOPLE. Not ‘love’ between self and things (like porn). Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. --Iris Murdoch, writer and philosopher Photos © 2008 The Weinstein Company. Review © David Bruce

“Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.” --Rabbi Julius Gordon Photos © 2008 The Weinstein Company. Review © David Bruce