Not bad for a film about a bad trip to Las Vegas, huh? Not only that, it won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and plenty of other accolades. The film first hit theaters on June 5, 2009, and immediately become a commercial and critical success in fact, it became the 10th highest grossing film of that year, grossing over $460 million worldwide. The 2009 comedy starred Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, Heather Graham and Jeffrey Tambor. What the film did was take old conventions and make them new again—through putting the friends through a serious of increasingly hilarious events that eventually help them get their guy back. The movie may rely on the bad day/night in Vegas premise, though it takes that premise and turns it on its head. Along the way, they manage to wake up with no real recollection of the previous night’s events, and have to find their friend – the groom – before the wedding starts. The film depicts three friends who travel to Las Vegas to celebrate their friend’s impending wedding with a bachelor party, of course.
The Hangover comically recounts a bachelor party gone wrong—all before a wedding’s supposed to take place.
