Year One (film)
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| Directed by | Harold Ramis |
| Produced by | Harold Ramis Judd Apatow Clayton Townsend |
| Screenplay by | Harold Ramis Gene Stupnitsky Lee Eisenberg |
| Story by | Harold Ramis |
| Starring |
Jack Black Michael Cera Oliver Platt David Cross Hank Azaria |
| Music by | Theodore Shapiro |
| Cinematography | Alar Kivilo |
| Edited by | Craig Herring Steve Welch |
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The Apatow Company
Ocean Pictures |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time
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100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $60 million |
| Box office | $62.4 million |
Year One is a 2009 comedy film directed by Harold Ramis, and produced by Judd Apatow. The film stars Jack Black and Michael Cera. The film was released in North America on June 19, 2009 by Columbia Pictures, where it received negative reviews from critics and underperformed at the box office. The film would be Ramis' last as an actor, writer, and director before his death in 2014.
Zed (Jack Black) is a hunter and Oh (Michael Cera) is a gatherer. After being informed that Zed ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, the shaman (Bill Hader) and Marlak (Matthew Willig) banish him from the tribe. After Zed burns down the village by accident, Oh decides to go with Zed on his journey to discover all the world has to offer. Along the way, they encounter Cain and Abel (David Cross and Paul Rudd). Cain kills Abel and informs Zed and Oh that they must escape with him or else be accused of killing Abel.
Afterwards, Zed and Oh find that the girls they want to "lay with", Maya (June Diane Raphael) and Eema (Juno Temple), from their former tribe have been captured and are being sold into slavery. They try to buy the girls' freedom, but Cain ends up selling Zed and Oh. While being taken to a village by the owner with all the other slaves from their tribe, Sodomites attack and take the slaves prisoner, though Zed and Oh escape and hide in the desert, watching the Sodomites.
The next morning, Zed and Oh discover that the Sodomites have left with the slaves. They head off to save the slaves. They come to a mountain and find Abraham (Hank Azaria) about to kill his son Isaac (Christopher Mintz-Plasse). Zed stops them, claiming that the Lord sent him to do so. Abraham takes them to his Hebrew village and tells them about the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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