TORONTO — She’s drop-dead gorgeous, successful, tidy and sweet as pie. He left her at the altar when she was pregnant and now has a dead-end job, a heavy smoking habit, a messy apartment, a group of gambling-addict friends and a beer gut.
On paper, the two main characters in the U.K.-shot romantic comedy “Run, Fat Boy, Run” – opening in Canadian theatres on Friday – may not seem the mostly likely of soulmates (then again, neither did the pair in the hit film “Knocked Up,” and audiences bought that).
What makes the odd-couple scenario work in “Run, Fat Boy, Run,” says director David Schwimmer, is the humour and heart of the leading man, played by revered British actor-writer-comedian Simon Pegg.
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