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Shallow Hal: Reception, Cast & Plot

Shallow Hal is a 2001 American romantic comedy film directed by the Farrelly Brothers. The film stars Gwyneth Paltrow and Jack Black, with Jason Alexander, Joe Viterelli, and Susan Ward in supporting roles. Filming took place in various areas including Charlotte, North Carolina, and Sterling and Princeton, Massachusetts at Wachusett Mountain. The plot…

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Shallow Hal topic overview

The analysis highlights Reception, Cast and Plot as prominent areas in the source structure around Shallow Hal.

Related topics
67
Source areas
6
Connected nodes
73
Extracted relationships
53
Concept neighborhoods
16
Bridge connections
73

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Reception · 18 topics
Cast · 17 topics
Overview · 16 topics
Plot · 9 topics
Production · 4 topics
Home media · 3 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Box office
$141.1 million
Budget
$40 million
Cinematography
Russell Carpenter
Country
United States
Directed by
Peter Farrelly · Bobby Farrelly
Distributed by
20th Century Fox

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Plot

Cast

Production

Reception

Home media

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Shallow Hal connects Entity context

The extracted context around Shallow Hal shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Shallow Hal → Audiences, Chicago Sun-Times, CinemaScore, Farrelly, Often, On Metacritic, On Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert, Scott, The, The New York Times, While Another extracted example is Shallow Hal → DVD, Fox, It, July, Pay-Per-View, PPV, VHS. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Shallow Hal

Top relations

related to Critical response · 12
Shallow Hal → Audiences, Chicago Sun-Times, CinemaScore, Farrelly, Often, On Metacritic, On Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert, Scott, The, The New York Times, While
related to Home media · 7
Shallow Hal → DVD, Fox, It, July, Pay-Per-View, PPV, VHS
Starring · 5
Shallow Hal → Gwyneth Paltrow, Jack Black, Jason Alexander, Joe Viterelli, Susan Ward
related to Box office · 5
Shallow Hal → In, Inc, It, Monsters, United States
Produced by · 4
Shallow Hal → Bobby Farrelly, Bradley Thomas, Charles B. Wessler, Peter Farrelly
Written by · 3
Shallow Hal → Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, Sean Moynihan
Directed by · 2
Shallow Hal → Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Music by · 2
Shallow Hal → Ivy, William Goodrum
related to External links · 2
Shallow Hal → IMDbShallow Hal, TCM Movie Database
Box office · 1
Shallow Hal → $141.1 million

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

hal rosemary film shallow mauricio paltrow production alexander fat farrelly gwyneth black woman hal's instead jack jason million office jill

Shallow Hal relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 53 structured relationships around Shallow Hal. Examples in this analysis include Shallow Hal → Box office → $141.1 million and Shallow Hal → Budget → $40 million. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Shallow HalBox office$141.1 million1.00infobox
Shallow HalBudget$40 million1.00infobox
Shallow HalCinematographyRussell Carpenter1.00infobox
Shallow HalCountryUnited States1.00infobox
Shallow HalDirected byPeter Farrelly1.00infobox
Shallow HalDirected byBobby Farrelly1.00infobox
Shallow HalDistributed by20th Century Fox1.00infobox
Shallow HalEdited byChristopher Greenbury1.00infobox
Shallow HalLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
Shallow HalMusic byWilliam Goodrum1.00infobox
Shallow HalMusic byIvy1.00infobox
Shallow HalProduced byPeter Farrelly1.00infobox
Shallow HalProduced byBobby Farrelly1.00infobox
Shallow HalProduced byCharles B. Wessler1.00infobox
Shallow HalProduced byBradley Thomas1.00infobox
Shallow HalProduction companyConundrum Entertainment1.00infobox
Shallow HalRelease dateNovember 9, 2001 (2001-11-09)1.00infobox
Shallow HalRunning time113 minutes1.00infobox
Shallow HalStarringGwyneth Paltrow1.00infobox
Shallow HalStarringJack Black1.00infobox
Shallow HalStarringJason Alexander1.00infobox
Shallow HalStarringJoe Viterelli1.00infobox
Shallow HalStarringSusan Ward1.00infobox
Shallow HalWritten byPeter Farrelly1.00infobox
Shallow HalWritten byBobby Farrelly1.00infobox
Shallow HalWritten bySean Moynihan1.00infobox
Shallow Halis a2001 American romantic comedy film directed by the Farrelly Brothers0.90text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Shallow Hal bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Shallow, Box and Office. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Shallow Hal
    • Shallow
    • Box
    • Office
    • Jill
    • Corps
    • Peace
    • Mauricio
    • Date
    • Rosemary's
    • Together
    • Farrelly
    • Fox
  • shallow hal
    • Shallow
    • Rosemary
    • Box
    • Mauricio
    • Office
    • Jill
    • Corps
    • Peace
    • Date
    • Rosemary's
    • Together
    • Farrelly
  • jason alexander
    • Jason
    • Joe
    • Viterelli
    • Jack
    • Black
    • Gwyneth
    • Susan
    • Ward
    • Paltrow
    • Cast
    • Mauricio
    • Box
  • jack black
    • Jack
    • Joe
    • Viterelli
    • Gwyneth
    • Jason
    • Paltrow
    • Alexander
    • Susan
    • Ward
    • Box
    • Fox
    • States
  • gwyneth paltrow
    • Jack
    • Paltrow
    • Joe
    • Viterelli
    • Jason
    • Susan
    • Ward
    • Production
    • Box
    • Fox
    • States
    • United
  • 20th century fox
    • States
    • United
    • Box
    • Joe
    • Susan
    • Viterelli
    • Ward
    • Date
    • Jack
    • Jason
    • Million
    • Office
  • joe viterelli
    • Viterelli
    • Susan
    • Ward
    • Paltrow
    • Box
    • Fox
    • States
    • United
    • Date
    • Million
    • Office
    • Jill
  • farrelly brothers
    • Cast
    • Plot
    • Shallow
    • Box
    • Beauty
    • Jason
    • Office
    • Alexander
    • Instead
    • Fat
    • Production
    • Hal

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Shallow Hal, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Shallow Hal with Reception. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Shallow HalReception · splits 55 ⟂ 19
Shallow HalCast · splits 56 ⟂ 18
Shallow HalOverview · splits 57 ⟂ 17
Shallow HalPlot · splits 64 ⟂ 10
Shallow HalProduction · splits 69 ⟂ 5
Shallow HalHome media · splits 70 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Shallow Hal

Nodes74
Edges73
Triples53
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.027027
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Shallow Hal to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Reception, Cast & Plot, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Shallow Hal · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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