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Sarah Marshall is an American comedy film from Universal Pictures directed by Nicholas Stoller and written by Jason Segel. The film was produced by Judd Apatow and stars Segel, Kristen Bell, Russell Brand and Mila Kunis. It was released April 18, 2008 in the United States and Canada and on April 23, 2008 in the United Kingdom.

Much of the film was filmed and takes place at the Turtle Bay Resort, located on the North Shore of the Island of Oahu in Hawaii.
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* 1 Plot
* 2 Cast
* 3 Soundtrack
* 4 Critical reception
* 5 Box office performance
* 6 References
* 7 External links

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Composer Peter Bretter (Jason Segel) has spent five years adoring his girlfriend, television star Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell). He has had success for composing the theme song and score of her highly-rated Crime Scene Investigation-type crime drama show. While writing a puppet musical about Dracula, he's the guy left holding her purse in paparazzi photos and accidentally omitted from acceptance award speeches. Things take a twist when she breaks up with him, and Peter suddenly finds himself alone. Trying to get over her, he has sex with various women, but besides being terrified of getting an STD, all this does is increase his stress and heartache. After an on-the-job nervous breakdown, he sees that not having Sarah may just ruin his life.

At the suggestion of his stepbrother Bryan (Bill Hader), Peter takes an impulsive trip to Hawaii to clear his head. At Turtle Bay Resort, he is confronted by his worst nightmare: Sarah and her narcissistic new English-rocker boyfriend, Aldous Snow (Russell Brand), are staying at his hotel. Snow is sympathetic and generally kind to Peter, while Sarah initially and wrongly suspects he's stalking her. As he torments himself with the reality of Sarah's new life, he finds relief when talking with Rachel (Mila Kunis), a beautiful resort employee whose laid-back approach tempts him to rejoin the world. Although they bond and get along well, she is also reluctant to move on, because she too has been recovering from a recent heartbreak. Peter becomes friends with many of the hotel staffers and also offers advice to a devout newlywed (Jack McBrayer) who is terrified of his new wife's (Maria Thayer)sexual appetite.

Throughout the film, Peter has flashbacks which reveal the negative aspects of Sarah and Peter's relationship, which he mostly ignored or was completely oblivious to, while Sarah remembers many of the good things she hadn't appreciated before. It is made known that she cheated on him with Aldous for about a year without him knowing, but after they break up, she now realizes that she wants him back, even more so when her relationship with Aldous fizzles. In the end, Peter is willing to take her back, but at the last minute, he turns her down upon realizing she is not worth it if she did not really love him. They have a brief physical encounter that Peter cuts short. Peter then decides to stay true to Rachel and delves in what happened between him and Sarah moments before, Rachel becomes furious and tells him to never speak to her again. Before he leaves the hotel, Peter wordlessly hands Rachel a topless photo of herself; it had been put in a local bar's wall collage by her nasty ex-boyfriend and Peter endured a beating from the bar's tough-guy owner to get the photo back to Rachel. When Peter returns home he finally finishes writing his Vampire Rock Opera. On its opening night, Rachel shows up and in the end both reconcile their differences and move