Fr 🎬 This Is 40 (2012) This comedy-drama dives into the messy, hilarious and heartfelt reality of hitting middle age while trying to keep a marriage, a family and your own sanity intact. Pete and Debbie’s lives are filled with everyday frustrations, awkward arguments and moments of unexpected sweetness that feel pulled straight from real-life relationships. The film leans into its honesty, showing that getting older doesn’t magically make anything easier — it just makes the stakes feel bigger.

Pete and Debbie's lives are falling apart — and now they're both turning 40. Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann star in This is 40. Now on Netflix. | Netflix

Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann's total inability to keep a straight face during Melissa McCarthy's improvised two-minute rant in an outtake from This is 40 remains endlessly watchable | Netflix