Winona Ryder and her wooden male lead in The Ten Courtesy ThinkFilm

READ MORE: Comedy Week
READ MORE: The Ten Review
WATCH THE TRAILER

When Stephen Montgomery (Adam Brody) falls from a plane without a parachute and plummets to earth feet first, he miraculously survives. Unable to be moved for fear that excavation from the ground might kill him, he is quickly catapulted to reality-star fame. His girlfriend (Winona Ryder) leaves him and falls heavily for a ventriloquist's dummy. A rapturous obsessive sexual relationship ensues. Meanwhile, Liev Schreiber is locked in a battle of one-upmanship with his neighbor over who can own more CAT-scan machines. A bunch of guys, needing to escape the humdrum of church every Sunday, take the Sabbath as the day for them to hang, watch football, drink beer — all butt naked with Roberta Flack playing in the background. There are twin brothers who must come to terms with their mother's disclosure that they were fathered by Arnold Schwarzenegger — even though they are both black and their mother is white. And we meet an animated rhino whose unexpected droppings magically bloom into single daisies. In the end, they all come together in sparkling outfits in an explosive song-and-dance crescendo.

These are some of the absurdist creations that populate the ten vignettes, each vaguely based on one of the Ten Commandments, in David Wain and Ken Marino's latest offering, The Ten. Wain and Marino met in the late 1980s during freshman year at NYU and formed a collective of ten friends who began producing short films and touring as a sketch-comedy group. They then went on to work together on the short-lived MTV sketch comedy show The State before branching off into separate projects like the Comedy Central shows Reno: 911 and Stella. Here Wain (Wet Hot American Summer) and Marino, who also appears in the movie as a surgeon who leaves a pair of scissors in a patient as "a goof" and as a love-struck prison inmate trying to break up with his cellmate, discuss anal rape and Winona's wooden sex scene. Paul Rudd (Knocked Up), who serves as our guide and narrator through each of the commandments in the film, talks about leaving his on-screen wife, Famke Janssen, for Jessica Alba. And Gretchen Mol (The Notorious Betty Page) chats about taking on the role of Gloria — a librarian who leaves behind the dusty bookshelves of her everyday solitude for a raunchy Harlequin romance with a handsome Mexican devil called Jesus.