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There's Something About Mary
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There's Something About Mary
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Peter Farrelly
Bobby Farrelly
Produced by
Michael Steinberg
Bradley Thomas
Charles B. Wessler
Frank Beddor
Screenplay by
Ed Decter
John J. Strauss
Peter Farrelly
Bobby Farrelly
Story by
Ed Decter
John J. Strauss
Starring
Cameron Diaz
Matt Dillon
Ben Stiller
Lee Evans
Chris Elliott
Narrated by
Jonathan Richman
Music by
Jonathan Richman
Cinematography
Mark Irwin
Edited by
Christopher Greenbury
Distributed by
20th Century Fox
Release date
July 15, 1998 (1998-07-15)
Running time
119 minutes[1]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$23 million[2]
Box office
$369.9 million[2]
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 Matt Dillon, Ben Stiller, Lee Evans and Chris Elliott all playing men who are in love with Mary and vying for her affections.
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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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Reception
5 Soundtrack
6 References
7 External links
Plot[edit]
In 1985, 16-year-old high school student Ted Stroehmann is about to go on a prom date with his dream girl Mary Jensen when he gets his scrotum stuck in a zipper. He is hospitalized when it bleeds after being unzipped, which cancels their date. Ted subsequently loses contact with Mary.
Thirteen years later, in 1998, 29-year-old Ted is still in love with Mary. On the advice of his best friend Dom Woganowski, he hires a private detective named Pat Healy 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 British architect friend, Tucker, who is heavily reliant on crutches. 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."
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. He wants to reconnect with her as well, which she quickly refuses. When Mary is finally together with all of her deceitful suitors, Ted realizes that the only one who did not resort to lying or manipulation to win over 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".
The film concludes with the two engaging in a kiss while singer/songwriter Jonathan Richman, who has 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[edit]
Cameron Diaz as Mary Jensen
Ben Stiller as Ted Stroehmann
Matt Dillon as Patrick "Pat" Healy
Chris Elliott as Dom "Woogie" Woganowski
Lee Evans as Tucker and Norm Phipps
Lin Shaye as Magda
Jeffrey Tambor as Sully
Markie Post as Sheila Jensen, Mary's mother
Keith David as Charlie, Mary's stepfather
W. Earl Brown as Warren Jensen, Mary's mentally disabled brother
Sarah Silverman as Brenda, Mary's sarcastic best friend
Khandi Alexander as Joanie
Willie Garson as Dr. Zit Face
Harland Williams as The Hitchhiker
Richard Tyson as Detective Krevoy
Rob Moran as Detective Stabler
Jonathan Richman as The Singing Narrator
Steve Sweeney as Policeman
Lenny Clarke as Fireman
Production[edit]
The movie was filmed in Miami, Florida. The Big Pink Restaurant is where Healy meets with Sully, the hair gel scene was filmed at the Cardozo Hotel, and the Miami-Dade Cultural Center was the location for the architecture exhibit Mary and Healy attended together. Churchill's Pub was used as a strip club for a scene with Healy.[3] The makeup effects and animatronic animal effects were the handiwork of Makeup Effects Designer Tony Gardner and Alterian, Inc.[4]
Besides Ben Stiller, actors Owen Wilson and Jon Stewart were considered potential candidates for the role of Ted Stroehmann.[5] Bill Murray was considered for the role of Pat Healy, but the Farrelly brothers thought he was too old for it.[6][7] 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.[8]
Reception [edit]
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.[2] The film was released in the United Kingdom on September 25, 1998, and topped the country's box office for the next two weekends.[9][10]
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."[11] Metacritic gives the film a score of 69 out of 100 based on reviews from 29 critics.[12]
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."[13]
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[14]
2002: AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions – Nominated[15]
2007: AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) – Nominated[16]
2008: AFI's 10 Top 10 – Nominated Romantic Comedy Film[17]
Soundtrack[edit]
"There's Something About Mary" (Jonathan Richman) – 1:47
"How to Survive a Broken Heart" (Ben Lee) – 2:47
"Every Day Should Be a Holiday" (The Dandy Warhols) – 4:02
"Everything Shines" (The Push Stars) – 2:27
"This Is the Day" (Ivy) – 3:33
"Is She Really Going Out with Him?" (Joe Jackson) – 3:36
"True Love Is Not Nice" (Jonathan Richman) – 2:13
"History Repeating" (The Propellerheads feat. Shirley Bassey) – 4:04
"If I Could Talk I'd Tell You" (The Lemonheads) – 2:51
"Mary's Prayer" (Danny Wilson) – 3:54
"Margo's Waltz" (Lloyd Cole) – 4:01
"Speed Queen" (Zuba) – 3:44
"Let Her Go Into the Darkness" (Jonathan Richman) – 1:19
"Build Me Up Buttercup" (The Foundations) – 2:59[18]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY (15)". British Board of Film Classification. 1998-07-22. Retrieved 2012-01-02.
^ Jump up to: a b c There's Something About Mary at Box Office Mojo
Jump up ^ Ily Goyanes (2010-09-01). "Celluloid City: There's Something About Mary Filmed at Churchill's Pub and Big Pink". Miami New Times. Archived from the original on 2018-01-11. Retrieved 2017-01-19.
Jump up ^ "There's Something About Mary". Internet Movie Database.
Jump up ^ Patrick Smith (2014-12-18). "Peter Farrelly interview: 'Jon Stewart was nearly the lead in There's Something About Mary'". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2017-11-23. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
Jump up ^ Locke, Greg W. (26 August 2011). "The Top 25 Roles Bill Murray Didn't Take". Retrieved 25 May 2015.
Jump up ^ Evans, Bradford (17 February 2011). "The Lost Roles of Bill Murray". Retrieved 25 May 2015.
Jump up ^ "Don't Forget: 'There's Something About Mary'". Yahoo! Movies. February 23, 2011.
Jump up ^ "Weekend box office 25th September 1998 - 27th September 1998". www.25thframe.co.uk. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
Jump up ^ "Weekend box office 2nd October 1998 - 4th October 1998". www.25thframe.co.uk. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
Jump up ^ "There's Something About Mary". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
Jump up ^ "There's Something About Mary". Metacritic. CBS.
Jump up ^ Roger Ebert. "There's Something About Mary". Chicago Sun-Times.
Jump up ^ "AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs" (PDF). American Film Institute. Retrieved 2016-07-17.
Jump up ^ "AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions Nominees" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-07-17.
Jump up ^ "AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies Nominees (10th Anniversary Edition)" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-07-17.
Jump up ^ "AFI's 10 Top 10 Nominees" (PDF). Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2016-08-19. CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
Jump up ^ "There's Something about Mary Soundtrack". Soundtrackinfo.com. 1998-07-14. Retrieved 2013-01-15.
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