The Love Guru is a 2008 comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

, directed by Marco Schnabel and starring Mike Myers and Jessica Alba

Jessica Alba

Jessica Marie Alba is an American television and film actress. She began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack . Alba rose to prominence as the lead actress in the television series Dark Angel...

 along with Romany Malco

Romany Malco

Romany Romanic Malco, Jr. is an American actor and music producer. He has been nominated for several awards, including an NAACP Image Award, MTV Movie Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award. Malco portrayed Conrad Shepard on the Showtime series Weeds. He most recently played George St...

 and Justin Timberlake

Justin Timberlake

Justin Randall Timberlake is an American pop musician and actor. He achieved early fame when he appeared as a contestant on Star Search, and went on to star in the Disney Channel television series The New Mickey Mouse Club, where he met future bandmate JC Chasez...

. In addition to starring in the film, Myers wrote The Love Guru with Graham Gordy and produced it with Gary Barber

Gary Barber

Gary Barber is a film producer who is a co-founder and co-CEO of Spyglass Entertainment and co-CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.-Filmography:His production credits include:*Reign of Fire*Shanghai Noon*Bruce Almighty*Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls*The Recruit...

. The film was released by Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...

 on June 20, 2008 and was rated PG-13. The film was released on August 1 in the United Kingdom, and has been rated 12A. It was released on DVD

DVD

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 and Blu-Ray on September 16.