Melissa McCarthy has built up tremendous goodwill and industry clout in the three years since “Bridesmaids.” With “Tammy,” she spends it all. McCarthy produced, stars and co-wrote the ...

Think of Melissa McCarthy playing Megan in Bridesmaids ... not just a caricature. Tammy, McCarthy's co-screenwriting debut with her husband, Ben Falcone (who directs for the first time), looks ...

Melissa McCarthy is back on the big screen to play another obnoxiously hilarious heroine in “Tammy,” but there seems to be one big problem: It’s not that funny. Though it’s projected to ...

It’s a question that co-writers Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone might have considered in “Tammy,” since it’s never really clear who the title character (played by McCarthy) even is ...

Melissa McCarthy's Tammy, produced and written by the star and co-written and directed by her husband Ben Falcone, is the kind of film we frankly should see more of. It is a character comedy ...

The script is based on a character created by McCarthy. “It’s about these two women who are not where they thought they would be, and then they kind of band together,” Melissa McCarthy told ...

Melissa McCarthy's passion project Tammy has a surprising sadness and sweetness to it, even if it doesn't quite amount to the sum of its parts. Tammy—co-written by McCarthy and her husband Ben ...

After having no luck in finding a director, New Line has decided to turn to its star, Melissa McCarthy, and co-writer, Ben Falcone, to direct the comedy “Tammy:” McCarthy also penned the ...

LOS ANGELES—There are bad days, and then there's the day Tammy is having. Melissa McCarthy's all-American, Midwestern mess, Tammy, steamrolls into theaters Wednesday. Tammy's car is smoking ...

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Melissa McCarthy in a scene from "Tammy." (AP photo/Warner Bros. Pictures) "Tammy," a Warner Bros. release, is rated R by the Motion Picture ...

(McCarthy) has the potential to be so much more. She can't be a whole lot less than she is in "Tammy." How do you solve a problem like Melissa McCarthy? That question feels inescapable after ...

Tammy, starring Melissa McCarthy and Susan Sarandon and directed by Ben Falcone, tracks a woman's incredibly terrible day (a totaled car, a cheating husband, and a harsh firing from her job ...