DVD Release Date:  January 15, 2008
Theatrical Release Date:  August 3, 2007
Rating:  R (for pervasive strong crude sexual content including dialogue and nudity and foul language and some drug material)
Genre:  Comedy
Run Time:  95 min.
Director:  David Wain
Actors:  Paul Rudd, Jessica Alba, Famke Janssen, Liv Schreiber, Winona Ryder, Adam Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Robb Corrdry

Walking onstage, as if in a theatrical production, Jeff (Paul Rudd) stands in front of two “Moses”-like tablets of the Ten Commandments and introduces the concept of The Ten, which is a series of short films, or stories, designed to illustrate the Ten Commandments.

In between each short, however, Jeff unwittingly plays out some of those commandments through various scenarios in his life.  This all takes place onstage, with theatrical props such as tables, chairs, and a door that opens and closes.  He fights with his wife (Famke Janssen).  He has an affair with Liz (Jessica Alba).  He leaves his wife.  And so on.

In the meantime, however, there are the stories.  One after the other.

A guy falls from an airplane without a parachute and survives, only to learn that he can’t be moved from the hole he’s now embedded in.  He becomes the star of a sitcom filmed around him—and a worldwide idol (commandment #1).  A woman (Winona Ryder) leaves her new husband during their honeymoon, after falling for a ventriloquist’s dummy—with whom she has passionate sex (commandment #2). 

While visiting Mexico, an American woman falls in love with a long-haired carpenter, only to learn that he is actually Jesus.  Being Jesus and all, he should call for the rapture, but he’s having way too much fun sleeping with this sexy tourist.  Later, in bed with her husband, she shouts out, “Jesus!” (commandment #3).

A married father cheats on his wife with other men every Sunday, while his wife is in church.  Soon, this has turned into weekly Sunday orgies with all the neighborhood husbands and fathers.  They rationalize that it’s a “godly” way to celebrate the Sabbath and all break into a musical song-and-dance number about this (commandment #4).

A married Caucasian housewife gives birth to twin African-American boys.  Later, she admits that the father is a black celebrity.  When she can’t track him down, she hires an impersonator to play dad to the grown boys, who agree to accept him in lieu of their biological father (commandment #5).

A surgeon intentionally drops scissors into a patient and is confused (but unrepentant) when she dies, because it was all a gag (commandment #6).  Two male inmates meet and can’t wait to rape one another on a regular basis (not sure which commandment).  And so on.