In 'This Is 40,' Family Life In All Its Glory

http://www.npr.org/2012/12/06/166645554/in-this-is-forty-family-life-in-all-its-glory

Terry Gross interviews filmmaker Judd Apatow for Fresh Air

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Five years after Judd Apatow's Knocked Up, Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann reprise their roles as married couple Pete and Debbie. Now years into their marriage with two kids (played by Iris and Maude Apatow), Pete and Debbie approach 40 less than gracefully.

Pete's friend Barry (Robert Smigel) offers some advice on entering middle age.