


The chase leads to Fenway Park, where John punches Robert, knocking him out, but during the chase, Ted is damaged and falls onto the field, ripped entirely in half. Realizing that Ted is in danger, John and Lori locate Donny's residence and track him to rescue Ted. Ted manages to reach a phone to contact John, but is immediately recaptured by Donny and Robert. Donny plans to make Ted into his brutish son Robert's new toy. Lori is persuaded, but Ted is kidnapped by Donny, a mentally unstable stalker who idolized Ted as a child. Lori is touched by the attempt and returns to her apartment, where Ted confesses to his role in John's relapse and offers to leave them alone forever if she talks to John. He does an off-key rendition of the Octopussy theme song, All Time High, by Rita Coolidge and is booed offstage. To repair John's relationship with Lori, Ted arranges for an old lover, singer Norah Jones, to help by having John express his love for Lori with a song during her concert that Lori and Rex attend. John and Ted confront each other about their ruined friendship and then fight, but manage to reconcile after a violent brawl in John's hotel room (John is crushed by a television). A devastated John angrily blames Ted for ruining his relationship with Lori and disowns him. Lori finds John there and furiously breaks up with him. John intends to stay only a few minutes, but gets caught up in the occasion. Jones, the star of their favorite film, Flash Gordon. John and Lori are invited to a party put on by Lori's womanizing manager Rex, but Ted lures John away to a party at his apartment with the pressured offer to meet Sam J. Lori learns that John has been skipping work, using her as an excuse, to reluctantly continue to spend most of his time with Ted. John finds Ted his own apartment and a job at a grocery store, where Ted begins dating his co-worker Tami-Lynn. John is hesitant about making Ted leave, but he is persuaded to act when they find Ted at home with a group of prostitutes after their anniversary dinner. As their fourth anniversary approaches, Lori hopes to marry John, but feels he can not move forward in life with Ted around. John is dating Lori Collins whom he met at a dance club. Unfortunately that caused John’s parents to freak out.Ģ7 years later, John (now 35) and Ted are still living in Boston, and are still staunch companions enjoying a hedonistic life. The wish coincides with a shooting star and comes true word spreads and Ted briefly becomes a celebrity. In 1985, eight-year-old John Bennett is a friendless only child living in Norwood, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, who wishes for his new Christmas gift, a jumbo teddy bear named Ted, to come to life and become his best friend. Ted received mixed to positive reviews with critics praising the humor, CGI effects, performances, and premise while criticizing the plot and inconsistent script. It was the 12th highest-grossing film of 2012 and received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song. Ted was released in theaters in the United States on June 29, 2012, and was a box office hit, grossing $549.4 million against a $50-65 million budget. The film is MacFarlane's feature-length directorial debut, produced by Media Rights Capital and distributed by Universal Pictures. However, in adulthood, Ted prevents John and his girlfriend Lori Collins from moving on with their lives. The film tells the story of John Bennett, a Boston native whose childhood wish brings his teddy bear friend Ted to life. The film stars Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis, with Joel McHale and Giovanni Ribisi in supporting roles, and MacFarlane providing the voice and motion capture of the title character. Ted is a 2012 American fantasy comedy film directed by Seth MacFarlane in his directorial debut and written by MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin, and Wellesley Wild.
