Saving Silverman (internationally titled Evil Woman) is a 2001 American romantic comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and starring Jason Biggs, Steve Zahn, Jack Black, and Amanda Peet.

Through a chance encounter in a local bar after a band gig, Darren meets Judith Fessbeggler, a beautiful but domineering psychologist who shows signs of being emotionally abusive.

Judith isolates Darren from his friends, demands that he quit the band, receive humiliating medical procedures, and attend relationship counseling under her care.

The friends, undaunted, try to reunite Darren with his "one and only", Sandy Perkus, when she returns to Seattle before she takes her final vows as a nun.

Sandy, disheartened, returns to the convent, but Darren snaps out of it and runs the 30 miles there to win her back.

The couples then wed onstage at Neil Diamond's concert: Darren to Sandy, Wayne to Judith, and J.D.

[1] Cast member Jason Biggs said the film is based on "a universal problem" of girlfriends who control who their partners are friends with.

[2] Saving Silverman was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia[3] from June 7 to August 2000 at a cost of US$22 million.

Its critical consensus states, "Dragged down by a plot lacking any sense of logic and obnoxious, unsympathetic characters, this comedy is more crude and mean-spirited than funny.