Chuck And Larry Is A Copycat Rip

Adam Sandler’s new flick, I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry is potentially a rip-off of Australian film Strange Bedfellows, a comedy about a straight cinema owner and a mechanic who pretend to be gay in order to gain financial benefit. Uh oh!

The makers of Paul Hogan’s most recent hit film are investigating whether it has been ripped off for a new Hollywood comedy starring Adam Sandler. The director and co-writer of Strange Bedfellows, Dean Murphy, is concerned about the similarities with I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, which opens in the US this week. He believes the Australian investors should be compensated if there has been a copyright breach. Starring Hogan and Michael Caton, Strange Bedfellows was about a straight cinema owner and a mechanic who pretend to be gay to claim a financial benefit. It was the highest-grossing Australian film in 2004, taking $4.8 million, and has subsequently been released on DVD in the US.

Backed by the Hollywood studio Universal Pictures, Chuck and Larry stars Adam Sandler and Kevin James as two straight firemen who pretend to be gay to claim a financial benefit. While he is yet to see the new movie, Murphy said he was struck by the similarities when he saw the trailer on the weekend. He heard other cinemagoers mention Strange Bedfellows as the trailer screened. Murphy has also been receiving emails every day saying Chuck and Larry seems like exactly the same film.

Rob Schneider reportedly received a script of Bedfellows a few years back, and everyone knows his boy is Sandler. Thieves!