There's Something About Mary DVD
Fox Home Entertainment
Rated: R
Genre: Comedy
Length: 119 minutes
Director: Bobby Farrelly
Year: (1998)
Britt Gillette's There's Something About Mary DVD Review
No doubt the funniest comedy of 1998 (and one of the best comedies of the decade), There's Something About Mary launched the careers of stars Ben Stiller and Cameron Diaz into the stratosphere. A product of the Farrelly brothers, Bobby and Peter, this is a well-written, well-directed story that ranks as one of their best films. Welding romance with a truly brilliant sense of humor, There's Something About Mary is a definite must-see comedy…
When 30-year-old writer Ted Stroehmann (Ben Stiller) realizes that he can't go on with life until he finds out what happened to his old high school flame Mary Jensen (Cameron Diaz), he listens to the advice of his friend, Dom Woganowski (Chris Elliott), and hires a private investigator to track her down. But the guy he trusts, Pat Healy (Matt Dillon), lies to Ted and tells him that Mary is a fat pig in wheelchair with several illegitimate children. Meanwhile, he packs his own bags to move to Miami so he can get close to the truly sexy Dr. Mary Jensen with whom he has fallen in love. But when Ted decides that he still wants to see Mary even though she may not be everything he remembers, the plot takes some twists and turns.
On his drive to Miami, Ted picks up a hitchhiker who turns out to be a serial killer. At first, the police think Ted is the killer, and he spends some time in jail before receiving an apology (and after the most hilarious interrogation scene in movie history). When Ted finally reaches Miami, he's reunited with Mary and her disabled brother Warren (W. Earl Brown). Knowing that Healy has been seeing Mary, Ted decides to pretend that he just casually ran into her.
But when Mary starts seeing more of Ted and less of Healy, Healy teams up with Mary's supposed architect friend, Tucker (Lee Evans), who's really a pizza delivery boy who fell in love with Mary while delivering a pie one night. The two concoct a series of ploys to sabotage both Ted and each other in the quest to win over Mary.
Meanwhile, Mary's ex-boyfriend, turned stalker shows up at her home. He also happens to be Ted's friend Dom, who only associated with Ted in the hopes that he would one day lead her to Mary. In the end, Dom, Tucker, and Healy all end up in Mary's living room demanding that she choose which one of them she wants. Ted shows up with Mary's old flame, Brett Favre, who she was going to marry before Tucker lied about some comments Brett made about Warren. But despite the Packer quarterback's arrival, Mary is a San Francisco 49'er all the way, and she chooses Ted…
A witty and downright hilarious comedy, There's Something About Mary will keep you in constant laughter. Ben Stiller turns in one of his best performances ever, and Matt Dillon is quite a character as the loathsome Patrick Healy. If you loved Zoolander or Meet The Parents, then you'll absolutely love There's Something About Mary…
Britt Gillette
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Posted on 11 December 2004