'Thanks For Sharing': Tim Robbins, Mark Ruffalo In New Sex Addict Film

Tim Robbins and Mark Ruffalo are about to get personal. Maybe a bit too personal.

The Oscar-winner and nominee have both signed on to star in "Thanks for Sharing," a new film about sex addicts participating in a 12-step recovery program. The film will be directed by a man Ruffalo knows well: Stuart Blumberg, the co-writer of Ruffalo's 2010 hit, "The Kids Are All Right." Both men earned Oscar nods for their work with the film.

It's yet another project in Rufalo's career resurgence, a new chapter that Blumberg is actually partially responsible for starting. Briefly retired from the film business, Ruffalo was tempted back into movies by "Kids" co-star Julianne Moore, who showed him Blumberg's script as bait.

Like Blumberg, Ruffalo recently became a first time director, as he just premiered his indie drama "Sympathy for Delicious." He's now filming "The Avengers," playing the part of The Incredible Hulk.

Robbins will soon appear in his own superhero flick, playing Senator Hammond in this summer's "Green Lantern."

For more, click over to The Hollywood Reporter.

Comments

[bradenton]

01:24 PM on 05/13/2011

What exactly is a sex addict? Isn't everyone? A woman must have written the script.

[cmann63]

12:27 PM on 05/13/2011

Lame movie for a lame "diagnosis" for losers who can't keep it zipped up.

[Richbruin]

10:53 AM on 05/13/2011

Just watched "Kids"....what a total piece of......

[Cinquopated]

10:15 AM on 05/13/2011

Maybe it's mean to say, but sex addiction sounds funny...

[lustforlife802]

09:54 AM on 05/13/2011

So they are playing men?

[repugnicansfearme]

10:25 PM on 05/12/2011

I was a sex addict, but only while I was the landscaper working for the Robbins/Sarandon household, and only while he was away filming movies. Sorry Timmy.

[itzy8940]

10:13 PM on 05/12/2011

Mark Ruffalo. Just the right amount of talent and yumminess.

[Stacey Jones]

09:05 PM on 05/12/2011

I love Mark Ruffalo. I'm so happy for him. He's been in HW for a long time and is finally starting to get some better roles/movies. Can't wait to see this.

[tinker27]

06:09 PM on 05/12/2011

I just had a leftist orgasm. :)

[h23154]

03:56 PM on 05/12/2011

I thought from the intro headline they were challenging them to some sort of contest.

[Go Kart Mozart]

03:03 PM on 05/12/2011

They need to get David Duchovny to do a cameo. "Mr. Duchovny, please stop jerking off!" LOL.

[Joseph Scott]

03:01 PM on 05/12/2011

Tim robbins is carrying my boyhood hero on his shoulders.... he better not mess with one of my favorite comic-book guys from a childhood where comic books were about the most colorful, exciting thing going on....

........reading transported me from the panhandle to someplace better...someplace thoroughly watered, I guess. with plants, and people that don't squint at you perpetually. And where the Dairy Queen is not necessarily the hottest place in town.

But wasn't Green Lantern just done fairly recently?

[JimR]

03:41 PM on 05/12/2011

Senator Hammond was your boyhood hero?

[Joseph Scott]

09:29 PM on 05/12/2011

Nah, I read Green Lantern when nothing else was around, the favorites being Batman, Superman, Flash (especially! I grew up to distance running and middle distance with speed), all the old ones where they'd do the classics...you know The Odyssey, Jason and the Golden Fleece, Nietzsche and Kierkegaard in The Philosophers Cape...that sort of thing.
I made that last one up...;?)

[Joseph Scott]

09:32 PM on 05/12/2011

Ruffalo had to be "...lured back with a script?"

Oh, sure. Why do the publicists always use this tired old one?
As if you have to be herded, coaxed, pleaded with, to be a movie star...

I like Mark and Tim (we're on a first name basis, but no, I can't give you their phone numbers) as actors. But the marketing machine behind movies is enough to make anyone a cynic.

[ontariogirl]

02:25 PM on 05/12/2011

Green Lantern! Sheldon will be soooooo happy. :)

[Jazmo]

01:51 PM on 05/12/2011

Given that I still think of Tim Robbins as "Nuke" LaLoosh .... well, I guess that does give him the background to be senator in Green Lantern.

[huffyISaHottie]

11:05 PM on 05/12/2011

Tim will always be Andy Dufresne to me

[ethiopia1a]

01:21 PM on 05/12/2011

the best excuse for Hollywood cheaters

[Marisa Stein]

02:09 PM on 05/12/2011

I was thinking the exact same thing