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Directed by | Rob Margolies |
Written by | Rob Margolies |
Starring |
Josh Gad Kristen Ruhlin Johnny Messner Aaron Yoo Melonie Diaz |
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Different Duck Films
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Running time
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85 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
She Wants Me is a 2012 comedy film starring Josh Gad, Kristen Ruhlin, Johnny Messner, Aaron Yoo and Melonie Diaz and also featured appearances of Hilary Duff and Charlie Sheen. It was written and directed by Rob Margolies.
Sam (Josh Gad) is a writer, working on a feature film. His girlfriend, Sammy (Kristen Ruhlin) has been promised the lead role, but the producers want an famous actress. After some problems and the return of Sammy's ex-boyfriend, John (Johnny Messner), the relationship get complicated and they broke up. Sam needs to deal with John, who became his friend and roommate, the lack of inspiration to wrote film, the new single life and a new girl (Melonie Diaz) who had sex with many men. Although all he wanted was Sammy back.
Margolies originally penned the role of Sam Baum, for Jonah Hill and Ellen Page as Sammy Kingston. Kate Bosworth was originally attached to play the role of Kim Powers but due to scheduling conflicts of shooting another film, was unable to participate last minute when Hilary Duff came on board. The cameo role of Charlie Sheen was penned originally for Jeff Goldblum but when the producers of the film mentioned an option to have Sheen participate Margolies jumped at the chance to work with the film and TV legend, who eventually became one of the executive producers of the film as well.