The Nutty Professor , Big , or any film where a magical intervention teaches a mediocre man a very basic lesson about human decency.
: Under this spell, Hal meets and falls in love with Rosemary Shanahan (Gwyneth Paltrow). While Hal perceives her as a slender, stunning woman, she is actually morbidly obese. Shallow Hal
Enter Rosemary Shanahan (Gwyneth Paltrow). To the rest of the world, Rosemary is a morbidly obese woman living a quiet life as a Peace Corps volunteer. But to Hal, under the hypnosis, she appears as a stunning, thin blonde bombshell (the actual Gwyneth Paltrow). Hal falls madly in love with her personality, courage, and kindness—unaware that his best friend, Mauricio (Jason Alexander), sees Rosemary as she really is. The Nutty Professor , Big , or any
Ultimately, Shallow Hal is a product of its time—flawed, funny, and unexpectedly touching—that asks: if you could only see the beauty in others, how different would your world be? Enter Rosemary Shanahan (Gwyneth Paltrow)
