Shallow Hal occurs as 2001 romantic comedy film starring Gwyneth Paltrow as Rosemary Shanahan, Jack Black as Hal Larsen and Jason Alexander as Mauricio. It was directed by Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly.

The shallow human known as Hal meets Tony Robbins who hypnotises him into seeing people's inner beauty, non their external selves. After he lessens dotty sustaining the grossly obese woman, who appears to him to look slender & beautiful.