Along Came Polly is a American romantic comedy film written and directed by John Hamburg.

Plot

Reuben Feffer (Ben Stiller) is an insurance underwriter who, since his job involves analyzing risk for insurance purposes, likes living life in complete safety and free from any unnecessary risk. As the film opens, he is celebrating his wedding to Lisa Kramer (Debra Messing), but promptly catches her having sex on their honeymoon with Claude (Hank Azaria), a French scuba instructor. After he returns he attempts to begin piecing his life back together. One night at the behest of his best friend - and fallen former teen actor - Sandy (Phillip Seymour Hoffman), he goes to an art gallery. There he runs into an extroverted former classmate named Polly Prince (Jennifer Aniston). The reunion is cut short, however, due to Sandy having sharted (a contraction of the words "shit" and "fart" - as Sandy explains to Reuben, not knowing what sharted means: "I just farted and shit came out...") and wanting to go home. Reuben decides to ask Polly out which in turn aggravates Sandy, who states that Polly is not as how she was when they were in junior high. At the end of the night he calls Polly but hangs up, she calls back and before he can stop it, his answering machine announces his name. Reuben then detours near Polly's apartment in time to see her walking in. He quickly deflects her inquiry as to whether or not he had hung up on her the previous night, to which he replies that "the phone lines must've gotten crossed or something". Despite this he manages to give her a business card and they make tentative plans to get together.

After Polly rearranges their plans a few times they finally manage to meet up at a Moroccan-style restaurant. Unfortunately for him, Reuben begins to suffer a bout of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (despite Sandy having reminded him of this prior to the date) and begins perspiring heavily. Unable to use the restaurant's bathroom (as it was occupied the entire time), he finally attempts to use Polly's bathroom. He runs into yet another problem here, this time finding that there's no toilet paper. He grabs a towel off of the rack but in the process blocks the toilet. He then tries to use Polly's new - and expensive - loofah in an effort to unplug the toilet. This attempt fails miserably and ends with Reuben's humiliation at Polly catching him in the act (after the toilet has overflowed onto the floor). To compound things, she reveals to him that the towel that he had used was in fact a hand-embroidered gift from her grandmother. Despite all of this Polly agrees to another date, this time at an Indian restaurant where they meet up with Reuben's parents. While at dinner Reuben's mother tells Polly of his failed marriage to Lisa and how she cheated on him during their honeymoon. Polly, touched by this, amends that she will help him to get over Lisa.