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Country
  
United States

7/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Romance

Duration
  

Language
  
English

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Director
  
Peter FarrellyRobert Farrelly

Release date
  
July 17, 1998 (1998-07-17)

Writer
  
Ed Decter (story), John J. Strauss (story), Ed Decter (screenplay), John J. Strauss (screenplay), Peter Farrelly (screenplay), Bobby Farrelly (screenplay)

Screenplay
  
Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, John J. Strauss, Ed Decter

Cast
  
(Mary Jensen), (Ted Stroehmann), (Pat Healy), (Tucker/Norman Phipps), (Dom Woganowski), (Magda)

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Love Is In The Hair.

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There's Something About Mary is a 1998 American romantic comedy film directed by Bobby and Peter Farrelly. It stars Cameron Diaz as the title character with Ben Stiller, Lee Evans, Chris Elliott, and Matt Dillon all playing men who are in love with Mary and vying for her affections.

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The film was placed 27th in the American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies, a list of the 100 funniest movies of the 20th century. In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted it the fourth-greatest comedy film of all time. Diaz won a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, an MTV Movie Award for Best Performance, an American Comedy Award for Best Actress, a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Best Actress. She also received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance. It was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy. It won 4 out of 8 MTV Movie Awards, including Best Movie.

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Plot

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In 1985, 16-year-old high school student Ted Stroehmann (Ben Stiller) is about to go on a prom date with his dream girl Mary Jensen (Cameron Diaz) when he gets his penis stuck in a zipper. He is hospitalized when it bleeds after being unzipped, which cancels their date. Ted subsequently loses contact with Mary.

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Thirteen years later, in 1998, 29-year-old Ted is still in love with Mary. On the advice of his best friend Dom Woganowski (Chris Elliott), he hires a private detective named Pat Healy (Matt Dillon) to track her down. Pat discovers that she is an orthopedic surgeon living in Miami with her friend, Magda, and instantly falls in love with Mary as well. He lies to Ted about her, saying she is overweight with four children and confined to a wheelchair, to discourage him from having any contact with her. Pat resorts to lying, cheating, stalking, and drugging Magda's dog to win Mary over, but is exposed by Mary's architect friend, Tucker (Lee Evans), who is heavily reliant on crutches and speaks with an English accent. Pat later feels guilty about lying to Mary and reveals his true self to her. Enraged after overhearing Tucker subsequently slander him as a murderer, Pat tails Tucker and discovers him to be a fraud himself: he is an able-bodied, entirely American pizza delivery boy named Norm Phipps who is also in love with Mary. For years, Norm has been driving away potential rivals through slander, including one oft-mentioned suitor referred to only as "Brett."

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Meanwhile, Ted decides he still wants to reconnect with Mary and, assisted by Dom, drives down to Florida and discovers the truth about her. Ted seems to have won Mary's love, until an anonymous letter exposes his connection with Pat, and she breaks contact with him. Ted confronts Pat and Norm, and Mary is accosted by Dom, who is revealed to be her ex-boyfriend "Woogie" that she has a restraining order against. When Mary is finally together with all of her deceitful suitors, Ted realizes that the only one who did not resort to lying and manipulation to win Mary was Brett, who he learns is NFL quarterback Brett Favre. After reuniting Brett and Mary, Ted leaves tearfully until Mary catches up to Ted, saying that "I'd be happiest with you".

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The film concludes with the two engaging in a kiss while a guitarist (Jonathan Richman), who periodically narrated the story in song throughout the film, is accidentally shot by Magda's boyfriend, who was trying to shoot Ted so he could win over Mary.

Cast

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Brett Favre plays himself in a cameo that was originally written-for and offered to NFL quarterback Steve Young, but he turned the role down due to the film's coarse nature and was replaced with Favre. Bill Murray was considered for the role of Pat Healy, but the Farrelly brothers thought he was too old for the part.

Production

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The movie was filmed in Miami, Florida. The makeup effects and animatronic animal effects were the handiwork of Makeup Effects Designer Tony Gardner and Alterian, Inc.

Reception

This sleeper hit was the highest-grossing comedy of 1998 in North America as well as the fourth-highest-grossing film of the year. It also catapulted Diaz and Stiller into the limelight. The film made $369 million worldwide, including $176 million in the U.S. alone.

The film received positive reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives it a score of 83% based on 83 reviews, and an average rating of 7/10, with the consensus: "There's Something About Mary proves that unrelentingly, unabashedly puerile humor doesn't necessarily come at the expense of a film's heart." Metacritic gives the film a score of 69 out of 100 based on reviews from 29 critics.

Roger Ebert gave it three out of four stars, stating "What a blessed relief is laughter. It flies in the face of manners, values, political correctness and decorum. It exposes us for what we are, the only animal with a sense of humor."

Gene Siskel ranked the film No.9 on his 10 Best films of 1998 (the final "best of" list he did before passing away).

The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:

  • 2000: AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs – #27
  • 2002: AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions – Nominated
  • 2007: AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) – Nominated
  • 2008: AFI's 10 Top 10 – Nominated Romantic Comedy Film
  • Soundtrack

    1. "There's Something About Mary" (Jonathan Richman) – 1:47
    2. "How to Survive a Broken Heart" (Ben Lee) – 2:47
    3. "Every Day Should Be a Holiday" (The Dandy Warhols) – 4:02
    4. "Everything Shines" (The Push Stars) – 2:27
    5. "This Is the Day" (Ivy) – 3:33
    6. "Is She Really Going Out with Him?" (Joe Jackson) – 3:36
    7. "True Love Is Not Nice" (Jonathan Richman) – 2:13
    8. "History Repeating" (The Propellerheads feat. Shirley Bassey) – 4:04
    9. "If I Could Talk I'd Tell You" (The Lemonheads) – 2:51
    10. "Mary's Prayer" (Danny Wilson) – 3:54
    11. "Margo's Waltz" (Lloyd Cole) – 4:01
    12. "Speed Queen" (Zuba) – 3:44
    13. "Let Her Go Into the Darkness" (Jonathan Richman) – 1:19
    14. "Build Me Up Buttercup" (The Foundations) – 2:59

    References

    There's Something About Mary Wikipedia
    Theres Something About Mary IMDb Theres Something About Mary themoviedb.org