The Hangover

The Hangover
The Hangover
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Todd Phillips
Written by	Jon Lucas; Scott Moore;
Produced by	Todd Phillips; Dan Goldberg;
Starring	Bradley Cooper; Ed Helms; Zach Galifianakis; Heather Graham; Justin Bartha ; Jeffrey Tambor;
Cinematography	Lawrence Sher
Edited by	Debra Neil-Fisher
Music by	Christophe Beck
Production; companies	Legendary Pictures; Green Hat Films; BenderSpink;
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release dates	May 30, 2009 (The Hague); June 5, 2009 (United States);
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$35 million
Box office	$469.3 million

The Hangover is a 2009 American comedy film directed by Todd Phillips and written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. It is the first installment in The Hangover trilogy. The film stars Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Heather Graham, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong, and Jeffrey Tambor. It tells the story of Phil Wenneck (Cooper), Stu Price (Helms), Alan Garner (Galifianakis), and Doug Billings (Bartha), who travel to Las Vegas for a bachelor party to celebrate Doug's impending marriage. However, Phil, Stu, and Alan wake up with Doug missing and no memory of the previous night's events, and must find the groom before the wedding can take place.

Lucas and Moore wrote the script after executive producer Chris Bender's friend disappeared and had a large bill after being sent to a strip club. After Lucas and Moore sold it to the studio for $2 million, Phillips and Jeremy Garelick rewrote the script to include a tiger as well as a subplot involving a baby and a police cruiser, and also including boxer Mike Tyson. Filming took place in Nevada for 15 days, and during filming, the three main actors (Cooper, Helms, and Galifianakis) formed a real friendship.

The Hangover was released on June 5, 2009,^[4] and was a critical and commercial success. The film became the tenth-highest-grossing film of 2009, with a worldwide gross of over $467 million. The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and received multiple other accolades. It became the highest-grossing R-rated comedy ever in the United States, surpassing a record previously held by Beverly Hills Cop for almost 25 years.^[5]

A sequel, The Hangover Part II, was released on May 26, 2011, and a third and final installment, The Hangover Part III, was released on May 23, 2013. While both were also box-office hits, neither were well-received critically.

^ "The Hangover (15)". British Board of Film Classification. June 12, 2009. Retrieved November 22, 2011.
^ "The Hangover". The Numbers. Nash Information Services. Archived from the original on September 2, 2014. Retrieved June 10, 2009.
^ "The Hangover (2009)". Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. Archived from the original on June 14, 2020. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
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^ "Top Grossing R Rated Movies at the Box Office". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on October 22, 2019. Retrieved August 8, 2013.

[BBFC-1] "The Hangover (15)". British Board of Film Classification. June 12, 2009. Retrieved November 22, 2011.

[The-Numbers-2] "The Hangover". The Numbers. Nash Information Services. Archived from the original on September 2, 2014. Retrieved June 10, 2009.

[BOM-3] "The Hangover (2009)". Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. Archived from the original on June 14, 2020. Retrieved July 29, 2020.

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[5] "Top Grossing R Rated Movies at the Box Office". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on October 22, 2019. Retrieved August 8, 2013.

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