Failure to Launch is a 2006 American romantic comedy film directed by Tom Dey, and starring Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker alongside Zooey Deschanel, Justin Bartha, Bradley Cooper, Terry Bradshaw, and Kathy Bates.

The film focuses on a 35-year-old man living with his parents who shows no interest in leaving the comfortable life that they, especially his mother, have made for him.

Al and Sue are fascinated when their friends, whose adult son recently left home, reveal they hired an expert to get him to move out.

But later Paula is shocked to learn why Tripp lives at home: His life collapsed when his fiancée suddenly died, and his family has been his solace ever since.

Al and Sue are finally in their empty nest, happily singing "Hit the Road, Tripp".

This fades into the closing credits over the Ray Charles song "Hit the Road, Jack", as Tripp and Paula sail away on his newly purchased boat.

The film grossed a total of $88.7 million in the United States box office and made $128,406,887 worldwide.

The site's critics consensus states: "The few comic gags sprinkled throughout the movie fail to spice up this formulaic rom-com.