As Benjamin becomes younger, he turns into the handsome, fortyish Brad Pitt, and he has an affair with a vibrant, normally aging dancer (Cate Blanchett).

NEWYORKER: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The heroine, the fortyish Hester Collyer (Rachel Weisz), has left her husband, a rich, distinguished barrister (Simon Russell Beale), and is living in a dreary bed-sit in London with a former R.

NEWYORKER: Crash Landing

Although Billy Crystal, the star and moving force, still gets a mite dewy-eyed and message-y (this time about brotherly love), he manages to parody as well as act out the fantasies and sensitivities of fortyish urban males.

NEWYORKER: City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly��s Gold

One fortyish pregnant woman after another.

NEWYORKER: Childcare

She was sometimes seen receiving visits from fortyish women who, based on their hair styles and the bumper stickers on their Subarus, were thought to be old basketball teammates of hers, and there was talk about her drinking again, but this was mostly just a guess, since, for all her friendliness, she had never made an actual close friend in Ramsey Hill.

NEWYORKER: Good Neighbors