SummaryJerry Ferro's 40th birthday has brought his life into sharp relief, and it's not a pretty picture. A once-promising amateur boxer who quit so he wouldn't risk his perfect record of underachievement, Jerry has been knocking around from one construction job to another and spinning his wheels in an unsatisfying relationship, all the while with an ey... Read More
Directed By:Charles Herman-Wurmfeld
Written By:Kevin Hench, Adam Carolla
The Hammer
Metascore
Mixed or Average
57
User score
Generally Favorable
6.3
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
42% Positive
5 Reviews
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50% Mixed
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8% Negative
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75
Nothing groundbreaking, but there's an easy charm in the movie.
75
It's genuinely funny, oddly romantic and surprisingly engaging for what could easily have been an obnoxious vanity project.
63
The script depends heavily on familiar stand-up comedy bits, but it's full of sharp wisecracks and slacker charm.
60
Rambling and disorganized. At the same time, though, The Hammer also has dry wit and unforced working-class swagger, and hits some surprising emotional notes.
60
The film hardly could be credited with breaking any new ground, but it has a hangdog charm, much like its leading actor.
50
Former "Loveline" and "The Man Show" co-host Adam Carolla brings his self-deprecating, improvisational, regular-dude deadpan--as well as his former Golden Gloves status--to this semi-autobiographical comedy with ambitions so low that one might call it charmingly mediocre.
25
Plays like a pilot for a situation comedy about a 40-year-old carpenter who decides to return to the boxing ring.
User score
Generally Favorable
55% Positive
6 Ratings
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18% Mixed
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3 Ratings
3 Ratings
Mar 13, 2016
9
Excellent romcom with big heart and lots of laughs. I can not count the amount of times I have shared this movie with a friend only to hear the say "oh, Adam Carolla, I don't want to watch that". To which I respond, "you don't know what you are talking about, you watched that crappy movie last week, you can just try this one out" and low and behold this movie enjoyed by all. Great movie almost perfect.
Production Company:
- Bentley Filmgroup
- Eden Wurmfeld Films
- Hammer The Movie
Release Date:Mar 21, 2008
Duration:1 h 28 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Some Guys Don't Know Their Destiny Till It Hits Them In The Face.
