History Film / INowPronounceYouChuckAndLarry

* SexinessScore: Renaldo is incredibly happy when Chuck (who's pretending to be gay) tells him he's a "10" even though Renaldo's not gay himself, he just finds it flattering that gay guys find him attractive.

* {{Jerkass}}: Clinton Fitzer. Granted, he was only doing his job investigating a possible fraud in Chuck and Larry's marriage, but does it justify being such an unsympathetic asshole to them?

* MaleGaze: Alex [=McDonough=] gets this. It's one of the reasons why Chuck found it hard to keep up the charade.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Inevitable considering Chuck and Larry did pretend to be a couple.

* IntimateMarks: The movie has a closeted homosexual who comes out to one of the protagonists. Later, when all the firefighters are in the shower, all the firefighters are scared of the two main characters. The closeted homosexual walks in and drops his soap. He bends over to reveal that "BAD ASS" is tattooed on his butt cheeks.

* ButNotTooGay: Despite that this movie is completely centered upon the issues of homosexuals and gay marriage, the one line they could not cross was having Chuck and Larry actually kiss. They wanted to do this, but the MPAA threatened to give the movie an R-rating if they did ([[DoubleStandard despite heterosexual kisses not even being considered to be PG-13]]), so they had to pass on that idea in the interests of marketability.

''I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry'' is a 2007 comedy starring Creator/AdamSandler and Kevin James. Two New York City Firefighters named [[ThoseTwoGuys Chuck (Sandler) and Larry (James)]] do a routine sweep of a building. Large debris falls over Chuck, but Larry uses his body to shield him. As Chuck is saved, he promises Larry that he'll repay him with any favor he requests.

After the accident, Larry, a recent widower, worries about his possible death and the impact it could have on his two kids. However, he discovers that his life insurance policy won't allow him to change his beneficiary from his deceased wife to his children due to him not experiencing a major life event. As he neglected to fill out the paperwork after his wife's death, he's left with getting remarried as the only option available to update his policy. Realizing New York legally recognizes domestic partnerships, he pleads for Chuck to have a domestic partnership with him. Realizing [[IOweYouMyLife that he owes him one]], he agrees.

However, things get complicated when they're repeatedly investigated for potential fraud and forced to keep acting gay in public to maintain the ruse -- particularly difficult for Chuck due to his lady killer tendencies and especially his growing attraction to a lawyer, Alex, who supports and represents them. The two also begin to learn that living openly as gay men creates further complications as the two previously homophobic men are now subjected to the same persecution legitimately gay people are.

''I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry'' is a 2007 comedy starring Creator/AdamSandler and Kevin James. Two New York City Firefighters named [[ThoseTwoGuys Chuck (Sandler) and Larry (James)]] do a routine sweep of a building. Falling debris showers over Chuck, but Larry uses his body to shield him. As Chuck is saved, he tells Larry that he'll repay him with any favor.

After the accident, Larry, a recent widower, worries about his death and the impact it could have on his two kids. However, he discovers that his life insurance policy won't allow him to change his beneficiary from his deceased wife to his children due to him not experiencing a major life event. As he neglected to fill out the paperwork after his wife's death, he's left with getting remarried as the only option available to update his policy. Realizing New York legally recognizes domestic partnerships, he pleads for Chuck to have a domestic partnership with him. Realizing [[IOweYouMyLife that he owes him one]], he agrees.

* BerserkButton: [[spoiler: Chuck (after a considerable amount of CharacterDevelopment) now hates the word "faggot" and he punches a religiously homophobic group member. Note that he himself had no problem referring to gays as such earlier in the film.]]

* CitizenshipMarriage: The insurance marriage variant.

* BlackLikeMe: Chuck is a very casual homophobe, happy to toss around words like "faggot" and having offensive, stereotypical ideas of what gay people are like judging by his attempts at impersonating one. By the end of the movie, he and Larry have had to deal with genuine prejudice over their faked sexuality, and he admits how ignorant he was.

* {{Fanservice}}: Alex (Creator/JessicaBiel) in a couple scenes. Bra and panties in one, with a gratuitous shot of her walking away after getting felt up by Sandler. Also as ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} at a costume party.

** Plus it's ''extremely'' common for men that come out later in life to have been in multiple previous opposite sex relationships, so Chuck having been revealed as having relationships ''in the past'' is completely irrelevant.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: After the truth of Chuck and Larry's relationship (or lack thereof) is revealed in the court, their fellow firefighters pull the IAmSpartacus card in a show of solidarity... and are all promptly arrested and thrown in jail for being accessories to Chuck and Larry's act of fraud. Fortunately for them, the state subsequently agrees not to press any charges as part of the plea bargain that sees the case resolved.

* CampGay: Pretty much anyone in the movie that is ''actually'' gay is this. [[spoiler:Duncan]] doesn't start out this way, but he switches to this as soon as he comes out of the closet. One of the chief criticisms of the film was its flagrant stereotyping of the gay community despite purporting to be a message of tolerance.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Chuck points out the reason he and Larry are in this mess and committing fraud is because "Everything with Paula's name on it gets filed in the drawer under 'too painful to deal with.'”
* DepravedHomosexual: Subverted -- the movie doesn't portray one, but during the shower scene, Chuck and Larry are treated as though they are.
* [[invoked]] DudeNotFunny: At one point Chuck and Larry sleep on Larry's former wife's bed which he hasn't done since she died. Once under the covers, Chuck decides to joke around by imitating his dead wife and claiming he "betrayed" her. Larry, unsurprisingly, isn't amused:

* PrisonRape: Parodied when the fireman accidentally drop their soap bars in the shower room and are afraid of being molested by the duo.

* {{Yellowface}}: Creator/RobSchneider appears in Yellowface, though it's Downplayed because Schneider is partly of Asian descent.

** Plus it's ''extremely'' common for men that come out later in life to have multiple previous opposite sex relationships, so Chuck having been revealed as having relationships ''in the past'' is completely irrelevant.

** Plus it's ''extremely'' common for men that come out in later in life to have multiple previous opposite sex relationships, so Chuck having been revealed as having relationships ''in the past'' is completely irrelevant.

** Also "Dr. Honey" when she's a lingerie.

* IntimateMarks: The movie has a closeted homosexual who comes out to one of the protagonists. Later, when all the firefighters are in the shower, all the firefighters are scared of the 2 main characters. The closeted homosexual walks in and drops his soap. He bends over to reveal that "BAD ASS" is tattooed on his butt cheeks.

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: The entire premise of the film. Being romantically involved is ''not'' a prerequisite for two people being in a domestic partnership. If anything, the opposite is true: the agreement only recognizes that two unmarried people live together, and it's (in theory) designed for people who aren't romantic partners. The arrangement just used to be common among LGBT couples because same-sex marriage was ''illegal'' in most of the United States until 2015, so domestic partnerships were often the closest thing to marriage that they could get.

** It's probably a good thing we're never told ''why'' Jessica Biel knows two guys who went to jail for pretending to be gay to get insurance, because that's not a crime. At all. Insurance fraud would have only been committed if Chuck and Larry actually lied about getting the partnership or getting married, which they follow all the legal requirements to do in the film.

* FanService: Creator/JessicaBiel in a couple scenes. Bra and panties in one, with a gratuitous shot of her walking away after getting felt up by Sandler. Also as ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} at a costume party.