The 40-year-old, well-meaning, virgin.

The 40-year-old virgin is a drama-comedy film about an awkward 40-year old man named Andy Stitzer who is still a virgin. Andy worked at an electronics store along with a colorful cast of characters; including David, Cal, and Jay. Early in the movie Andy’s coworkers invited him to a late night poker session, at which they discovered that Andy was still a virgin. From that point on David, Cal, and Jay took it upon themselves to “help” Andy lose his virginity. They tried speed dating, teaching Andy how to spot drunken girls at the bar, convincing Andy to wax his chest, and several other schemes but each and every time they failed to get Andy laid. Eventually Andy met Trish, a hot grandmother with three kids that worked across the street from him, and they hit it off immediately, so they started going out. Throughout most of the rest of the movie Andy struggled to find a way to tell Trish that he was still a virgin, but eventually he built up the courage to do so after a big fight with Trish. At the end of the movie Andy and Trish got married, and Andy finally lost his virginity on their honey moon.

The movie portrayed men as pigs who were only interested in women for the purpose of sex. The characters of Andy’s friends, especially Cal and Jay, were used to depict the character of the common man. They were both average guys. They had average jobs. They liked sports, beer, and poking fun at one another. Cal was a funny stoner, with too much facial hair, that wrote novels on his free time; and Jay was a self styled ladies man who spent the majority of his free time cheating on his girlfriend or lying to her about cheating on her. Both Cal and Jay encouraged Andy to pick up drunken women at the bar, but when Andy suggested that doing so seemed wrong to him, both of them adamantly vindicated the practice by informing Andy that they both did it regularly and by telling him that every guy does it. Jay even went as far as to say, “All you got to do is use your instincts. How do you think a lion knows to tackle a gazelle? It's written, it's a code written in his DNA, says, "tackle the gazelle." And believe it or not, in every man there's a code written that says, "tackle drunk bitches."” The entire movie men were portrayed as mean, cheating, lying, and sexist pigs.

Andy was an extremely nice person but he didn’t seem to be interested in anything an ordinary guy would be interested in, such as sports and beer. He was so nice in fact that on one occasion he showed up at Trish’s house to surprise her only to find Trish arguing with her teenage daughter about whether or not she was old enough to have sex yet, so Andy actually drove Trish’s daughter to Planned Parenthood to attend a sex education class with her. Andy’s unique character was used to present the audience with an example of uncommon kindness which provided a stark moral contrast to the indecency of the average male.