The Ten

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The Ten

Promotional movie poster for the film
Directed by David Wain
Produced by Jonathan Stern
Written by Ken Marino
David Wain
Starring Jessica Alba
Winona Ryder
Paul Rudd
Famke Janssen
Adam Brody
Gretchen Mol
Music by Craig Wedren
Distributed by ThinkFilm
Release date(s) Flag of the United States August 3, 2007
Running time 93 min.
Budget $3.75M (estimated)
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The Ten is a comedy film directed by David Wain and cowritten by Ken Marino through ThinkFilm. The film was released on August 3, 2007. The DVD was released on January 15, 2008.

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Ten stories, each inspired by one of the Ten Commandments.

  • A guy (Adam Brody) who becomes a celebrity after falling out of a plane and becoming permanently embedded in the ground. After a swift rise to stardom, he becomes prideful and arrogant, referring to himself as a god. His career falls apart and he loses everything. His fiance (Wynona Ryder) leaves him for a TV anchor man.(Thou Shalt Worship No God Before Me)
  • A librarian (Gretchen Mol) who has a sexual awakening in Mexico with a swarthy local (Justin Theroux) who turns out to be the real Jesus Christ. She eventually settles down and marries her coworker (A. D. Miles), but is secretly reminded of her fling with Jesus whenever her family prays before a meal.(Thou Shalt Not Take the Lord's Name in Vain)
  • A doctor (Ken Marino) who kills his patient by leaving a pair of scissors inside her abdomen during surgery. Despite expecting the charges to be dropped because he left the scissors in "as a goof", the judge and jury sentence him to life in prison. (Thou Shalt Not Kill)
  • A white mother (Kerri Kenney-Silver) who enlists an Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonator (Oliver Platt) to be a father figure to her black children after telling them the actor turned California governor is their biological father. It is revealed that their father is in reality Arsenio Hall, but they decide to keep the Arnold impersonator as part of the family. (Honor Thy Mother and Thy Father)
  • A police detective (Liev Schreiber) who covets his neighbor's CAT Scan machine. After continuously buying additional CAT Scan machines to one up each other, both of their wives leave them. After hitting rock bottom the two neighbors reconcile and go out for a drink. Meanwhile a disaster at a nuclear power plant leaves a busload of school children in need of a CAT Scan machine. They arrive at the neighbors' houses but the doors are locked and the two men are at the bar, so all the children die. (Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Goods)
  • A prisoner (Rob Corddry) who desires a fellow inmate's "bitch" (The doctor from the third vignette) for his own. (Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Wife)
  • The woman (Winona Ryder) from the first story, having recently married the TV anchor man, falls in love with a ventriloquist's puppet, steals it and runs off to have a romantic relationship with it. (Thou Shalt Not Steal)
  • The ventriloquist, having lost his dummy and become a heroin-addicted homeless person, is told by another homeless man a story about an animated rhinoceros (voice of H. Jon Benjamin) who earns a reputation as a liar. After learning of a band of weiner dogs intent on infecting others with a fatal STD, the rhinoceros tries to warn everyone, but nobody believes him and they all die. It is revealed that the rhinoceros now sells drugs to the homeless men.(Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness)
  • The husband from the second story (A. D. Miles) skips church with his family to get naked with his friends and listen to Roberta Flack. (Remember the Sabbath and Keep It Holy)
  • Jeff Reigert (Paul Rudd) presents all of these stories to the audience, while struggling with his own moral dilemma: having to choose between his beautiful wife (Famke Janssen) and his also beautiful but somewhat younger mistress (Jessica Alba). (Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery)

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  • Bob (Robert Ben Garant) is seen during the "Remember The Sabbath and Keep It Holy" story explaining Pink Floyd's The Wall using the same dialogue from the very first sketch by The State in which, Garant explains the album/movie to little children at a birthday party.

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