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"Larry Crowne" audience compared to obscure pine tree

Who knew?

July 5, 2011 at 6:26PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Gosh, why didn't this movie make hundreds of millions?

Mercedes (JULIA ROBERTS) holds onto Larry (TOM HANKS) in a romantic comedy about how the hard knocks from today?s recession inspire one everyday guy to undergo a personal reinvention and an unexpected second act in his life: ?Larry Crowne?.
(Photo Credit: Bruce Talamon/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Who wouldn't want to see this? Lands sakes, doesn't it look like a caution? By crinkey, can't you just imagine the highjinks those two might get up to? Too bad it skewed old. Hollywood Reporter says:

Did he say that? There's a studio exec who uses the phrase "my goodness"? Jinkies! But how old is a bristlecone pine? Wikipedia is helpful:

So there you have it. The average age of a "Larry Crowne" is over 5,000 years old. But that may be the collected age of everyone who actually saw it.

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