Love on the Run: David Schwimmer's Rom-Com 'Run, Fat Boy, Run'
Premiere talks with stars Simon Pegg and Thandie Newton and director David Schwimmer about making the film.
By Karl Rozemeyer
 READ MORE: Run, Fat Boy, Run review
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Dennis Doyle (Simon Pegg) left his pregnant fiancée, Libby (Thandie Newton), at the altar and ran — down the street at full tilt and never came back. Five years later he rationalizes his actions by telling her that he thought spoiling her day would have been better than ruining her life. While Libby has moved on, managing her own successful bakery and dating a suspiciously perfect American hedge fund manager, Whit (Hank Azaria, reprising his role as the flashy Other Guy in Along Came Polly), Dennis has kept running — from commitment, responsibility, adulthood. A security guard in a women's clothing store, Dennis now lives alone on the bottom floor of a semi-detached row house in a North London neighborhood. He sees his son Jake (Matthew Fenton) often, but with little disposable cash to take him on outings or trips, their time together consists mainly of playing pranks on passersby from a park treetop. Dennis realizes Libby is getting serious about her relationship with Whit, and he fears he'll about forever lose any chance of regaining Libby's respect and affection. Upon seeing the very athletic Whit in the buff at his gym's locker room, Dennis is forced to confront his shortcomings and decides to compete with Whit in a sphere where his rival excels. Whit runs marathons for charity and so Dennis — with the National Erectile Dysfunction Awareness Association as a sponsor — doggedly begins to train for the mother of all British road races, the London Marathon.
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