With its gleeful hash of the sacred and the profane, THE TEN is a hilarious comedy that takes liberties with the Bible's Ten Commandments. After the cult success of WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER and THE STATE, David Wain and Ken Marino reteam with a few familiar faces--as well as some new additions--to poke fun at the Old Testament tenets with 10 stories. Jeff Reigert (Paul Rudd, KNOCKED UP) introduces these 10 chapters, as he also confronts his own issues with adultery. He has the difficult task of choosing between his wife played by Famke Janssen (X-MEN: THE LAST STAND) and his mistress played by Jessica Alba (FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER). Meanwhile, each of the stories tackles the Bible's rules from Thou shalt not have no other gods before me to Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, with equal parts wit and weirdness.
From the buttoned-up librarian (Gretchen Mol, THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE) who falls for a Mexican carpenter named Jesus to a doctor (Marino, DIGGERS) who sees his murder of a patient as a joke, these aren't the Sunday school takes on the Biblical rules. Instead, Wain, Marino, and their star-studded cast treat the normally serious topics such as murder and adultery with their irreverent and politically incorrect brand of humor. .Just like WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER and the short-lived series STELLA, THE TEN is full of random laughs sure to please fans of the writers' previous fare.
Theatrical Release: August 3, 2007
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound - English
Subtitled Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Alternate and Deleted Scenes
Audio Commentary: Cast
Trailers: Rated and Unrated
Interviews: South by Southwest
Behind the Scenes: The Making of
Interactive Features:
Easter Eggs
DVD-ROM Features:
Weblinks
Ringtones
Wallpaper
Stars
Paul Rudd: American Actor
Ken Marino:
Jessica Alba: American actress
Winona Ryder: American actress, GIRL, INTERRUPTED
Adam Brody: Actor, GRIND (2003)
Gretchen Mol: Actress/"The Funeral"
Famke Janssen: Model/actress
Rob Corddry: Comedian, THE DAILY SHOW
Liev Schreiber: American actor, SCREAM series/LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA
Oliver Platt: Actor, BEETHOVEN
Justin Theroux: Actor/writer/director
Bobby Cannavale: Actor, WASHINGTON HEIGHTS (2003)
Kerri Kenney-Silver: Executuve Producer, RENO 911!: Miami, (2007)
A.D. Miles: Actor, , WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER (2001)
Ron Silver: American Actor
Mather Zickel:
Zak Orth:
Director
David Wain: Director, WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER (2001)
Producer
Jonathan Stern: Producer, THE TEN
Ken Marino:
David Wain: Director, WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER (2001)
Paul Rudd: American Actor
Morris S. Levy: Producer, THE TEN
Screenwriter
Ken Marino:
David Wain: Director, WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER (2001)
Composer
Craig Wedren: Composer, WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER (2001)
Director of Photography
Yaron Orbach: Director of Photography, THE TEN
Review 1:
"More drawn to the profane than to the sacred, Mr. Wain and his co-writer, Ken Marino, achieve periodic comic transcendence..."
Source: New York Times
p.E8 08/03/2007
Review 2:
"Wain uses the Commandments to create a variety-pack satire of adult mores and manners. It's like early Woody Allen crossed with late Bunuel." -- Grade: B+
Source: Entertainment Weekly
p.55 08/17/2007