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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But there should still be room for comic star Melissa McCarthy to deliver another hit. New Line Cinema’s $20-million R-rated comedy “Tammy” could gross around $45 million in the United ...

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 ...

To her face. At a party. In front of hundreds of people. Melissa, do you even like Tammy? After all, when you finally get to kiss your drip of a crush (Mark Duplass), the camera immediately pulls ...

“Tammy” feels like the kind of picture that can happen only when a major talent — here, the unsinkable Melissa McCarthy, who wrote the script with her husband and director, Ben Falcone ...

“but I came downstairs and I just told Melissa, ‘Would you want to do a road trip movie?’ And “a mere seven years later,” here they are, with “Tammy” having ridden McCarthy’s ...

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 ...