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There's Something About Mary (1998)
Everyone's
talking about Mary...
Directors: Peter and Bobby Farrelly, rated R for
language, crude humor
  Starring:
Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Ben Stiller, Lee Evans, Chris Elliott, Lin Shaye,
Jeffrey Tambor, Markie Post, Keith David, Sarah Silverman
DML Rating:
★★★★★★★★★★
- perfect
"I want a guy who can play
36 holes of golf, and still have enough energy to take Warren
and me
to a baseball game, and eat hot dogs, I'm talking sausage
hot dogs and beer, not Lite beer, but beer.
That's my ad, print
it up." - Mary
Why watch this?
This film has certainly grown on me. It's gross and crude, but
what the hell - it very much fits me.
Plot Summary:
Ted attempts to reconnect with his high school crush, Mary, whom
he hasn't seen since a disastrous prom night incident. He hires
a private investigator to find her, but the detective, Pat
Healy, also becomes infatuated with Mary and tries to win her
over by sabotaging Ted's efforts. This leads to a comedic
entanglement as various men, including Mary's friend Tucker,
resort to increasingly desperate and deceptive measures to
secure her affection.
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Dad's Preview:
This Farrelly brothers' effort is inappropriate, gross, sexually
over-the-top, yet somehow manages to be one of the funniest love
stories committed to film. Ben Stiller, per usual, plays the nice guy
who is too shy
and awkward to get the girl. Matt Dillon, as Healy, steals a lot of scenes,
yet it's the clumsy chemistry between Stiller and Diaz that
carries the film. That and the fact that no "dating disaster"
topics are off-limits for our demented filmmakers. My biggest
take-away: when somebody
offers you hair gel, just say, "No thanks." |
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Michael Steinberg,
Bradley Thomas, Charles B.
Wessler,
Frank Beddor;
20th Century Fox
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