40 Days and 40 Nights

40 Days and 40 Nights is a 2002 comedy film directed by Michael Lehmann and written by Rob Perez. The film depicts the life of Matt Sullivan, played by Josh Hartnett, who abstains from any sexual contact for the duration of the Christian season of Lent.

The movie is not very critically high-rated, having a 38% freshness rating at Rotten Tomatoes.

Tagline: One man is about to do the unthinkable. No sex. Whatsoever. For... 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS.

Plot

Matt is obsessed with his ex-girlfriend, Nicole (Vinessa Shaw), though it's been six months since she broke up with him. His obsession makes it impossible for him to have relationships with other women. Matt confides to his brother John (Adam Trese), a priest-in-training, that he has sexual problems because of his obsession.

Realizing that Lent is about to start, Matt tells John that he's going to do without sex for 40 days and 40 nights. This, he concludes, will force him to get over Nicole and cure his problem. John warns Matt that celibacy is not easy.

Matt and his roommate, Ryan (Paulo Costanzo), are co-workers at a dot-com company in San Francisco. Ryan tells everyone about Matt's plan to do without sex, and an office pool is started, and everyone in the office gets in on it.

After about six days of being productive and happy, Matt goes out and does his laundry. At the Laundromat, he meets a very pretty girl named Erica (Shannyn Sossamon), who works for Cyber Nanny, a search engine that keeps kids from finding porn on the Internet. Matt and Erica make plans to come back and see each other next week.





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