The film centers around a “shallow” guy named Hal (Jack Black) who gets hypnotized into only being able to see women’s inner beauty so that he no longer fixates on their physiques. He eventually falls ...

20th Century Fox Ivy Snitzer and Jack Black in 2001 Ivy Snitzer is speaking out about the mental and physical toll her role in the hit 2001 comedy Shallow Hal had on her in the wake of the film's ...

Content warning: This story includes descriptions of eating disorders. Ivy Snitzer, who played Gwyneth Paltrow's body double in the 2001 film "Shallow Hal," is speaking out about the struggles she has ...

The body double for Gwyneth Paltrow's plus-size character in the 2001 comedy "Shallow Hal" says she developed eating disorders and was practically "starving to death" in the years after the movie came ...

Shallow Hal has problems. Not just the jerk title character, played with charmlessness to spare by the usually estimable Jack Black, but the movie itself. Here’s the deal: Hal can’t see inner beauty.

The premise of Shallow Hal (20 th Century Fox), the new comedy from the Farrelly brothers, is deceptively simple, and deceptively simple surfaces are its subject. The title character (Jack Black), a ...

SHALLOW HAL: Comedy. Starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Jack Black. Co-written (with Sean Moynihan) and directed by Bobby and Peter Farrelly. (VHS and DVD. PG-13. 113 minutes.) Inside every thin comedy is a ...

Gwyneth Paltrow’s “Shallow Hal” body double is reflecting on the near-deadly eating disorder she developed after the 2001 flick saw her become the target of fat-phobic people. It was the body of ...

Think soap opera: A doctor puts his hand on Mary Larson’s (Molly Shannon in a brief cameo role) shoulder as her 9-year-old son Hal (Sasha Neulinger) looks on concerned. His dad, Reverend Larson, could ...

The poster for Shallow Hal features chunky goofball Jack Black holding hands with a blonde built to conform to every teen-age boy's notion of babelogical perfection. The figures cast shadows. In ...