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With the premiere less than a month away, we think it's time you had a look at How to Live with Your Parents .
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The brilliant new comedy stars Sarah Chalke as Polly. Recently divorced and now a single mom, where can Polly turn during a rocky transitional period in an economic climate that has even the most functional people flailing? To Mom and Dad, of course. In a desperate attempt at stability, Polly scoops up her daughter and moves back home.
Sarah Chalke is brilliant at playing roles like Polly, a hopeful person in a hapless situation. That was often the essence of her two previous major characters, Elliot and Stella . Plus, she now has plenty of experience at being a mom.
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In this situation, Polly is exactly that. Yet, she's also a little more high-strung than the characters Chalke has played before. Polly is a modern but sheltering parent. She wants to be there for her daughter's every screeching halt, ready to throw out her mom arm and keep her little girl from flying through a window or crashing to the floor.
Polly's laid-back parents are the opposite, though. Her dad, Max , and her mother, Elaine , try to encourage her to be more hands-off and to let her daughter learn from her own mistakes. What ensues will be a constant tug-of-war between the old way and the new way, Polly's way and her parents' way. And along the way, she still has to deal with Julian, the ex-husband .
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How to Live with Your Parents is the first comedy from Claudia Lonow and is loosely based on her own life.
During a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Lonow explained the extra-long title, saying, "[The title] got the most laughs because people really relate to it. Like I was driving to the lot and I was telling a guard that I'm working on How to Live with Your Parents , and he said, 'Oh my God, I can't wait to see that. My kid just moved in and I can't get him out and that's my worst nightmare.' Or I went in for a checkup with my doctor, and she was telling me that her daughter and her husband and their kid just moved in. So, I mean that it just seemed to resonate with people, and they tested it and it was tested well."
