Josh Hartnett plays a celibate lover in his latest movie, sex comedy 40 Days and 40 Nights.
High Concept Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder.
Plot After yet another joyless one-night stand, a lusty young man vows to go without sex for the 40 days of Lent. And then meets Miss Right. Place your bets - his work colleagues do.
Once a knight's enough Model-turned-actress Shannyn Sossamon is the young head-turner, fresh from her pose-and-speak part in A Knight's Tale.
Chaste not, want not Hollywood babe magnet Josh Hartnett plays the smitten single guy, a role which allows him to put distance between himself and last year's mega-bomb Pearl Harbor. And talking of bombs, director Michael Lehmann has his own defusing to do. It was a long time ago, but he directed Hudson Hawk.
Say it with flowers The movie's joke is that if you give up sex, it doesn't go away. In fact it starts manifesting itself everywhere. The film's most talked-about scene geature Josh pleasuring Shannyn by throwing rose petals at her.
Verdicts 'Lehmann relentlessly pounds a flaccid premise' - Rolling Stone. 'Comes dangerously close to being America's first sex comedy without comedy' - CNN. 'An entertaining sex farce' - Daily Herald.
