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About This Movie: The Love Guru

By Leroy Douresseaux
June 19, 2008 - 09:57

PARAMOUNT PICTURES AND SPYGLASS ENTERTAINMENT Present
A Nomoneyfun Films/Michael De Luca Production
The Love Guru (2008)
DIRECTOR: Marco Schnabel
WRITERS: Mike Myers & Graham Gordy
PRODUCERS: Michael De Luca and Mike Myers
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Peter Deming, ASC (D.o.P.)
EDITORS: Lee Haxall, Gregory Perler, and Billy Weber
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Charles Wood
COSTUME DESIGNER: Karen Patch
COMPOSER: George S. Clinton

Starring:  Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Romany Malco, Meagan Good, Omid Djalili, and Ben Kingsley, Terrence Stamp, Terry Crews, David Koechner, James Caan, Bill Murray, Patrick Warburton, and Ken Davitian

Opening date:  Friday, June 20, 2008
Running time:  110 minutes
Rating:  MPAA – PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, language, some comic violence, and drug references

Mike Myers returns to film with his first original character since Austin Powers in the new movie, The Love Guru.  Pitka (Mike Myers) is an American who, as a child, was left at the gates of an ashram in India and raised by gurus led by the exalted Guru Tugginmypuddha (Ben Kingsley).  He grows up in the small fishing village of Harenmahkeester, and Pitka is schooled in the inner secrets of spiritual attainment along with his friend and sole rival, Deepak Chopra.

Mike Myers and Jessica Alba

Pitka moves back to the U.S. to seek fame and fortune in the world of self-help and spirituality.  Now, however, Chopra is a massive celebrity in America, and Pitka is still playing second-fiddle without even an “Oprah” episode on his resume.  When he gets a call for help from Jane Bullard (Jessica Alba), owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team, Pitka’s unorthodox methods are put to the test.  He must settle a rift between the Maple Leafs star hockey player, Darren Roanoke (Romany Malco), and his estranged wife, Prudence (Meagan Goode), which engages him to use his ancient spiritual wisdom to fix a 21st century celebrity romance.

After the split, Roanoke’s wife starts dating L.A. Kings star and legendary goalie, Jacques Grande (Justin Timberlake), out of revenge, sending her husband into a major professional skid – to the horror of Jane Bullard and Maple Leafs’ Coach Cherkov (Verne Troyer).  Pitka must return the couple to marital nirvana and get Roanoke back on his game so the team can break the 40-year-old “Bullard Curse” and win the Stanley Cup.

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