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Directed By
Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Written By:
Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, Edward Decter, John J. Strauss
Cast:
Ben Stiller, Matt Dillon, Cameron Diaz, Chris Elliott, Lee Evans, Lin Shaye, Jeffrey Tambor, Keith David, W. Earl Brown, Khandi Alexander, Richard Tyson, Rob Moran, Lenny Clarke, Zen Gesner, Harland Williams, Richard Jenkins, Markie Post, Jonathan Richman
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There's Something About Mary (1998)
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Movie Review by Zara 
January 30th, 2007
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I love them retards
If I love the Farrelly brothers for anything it's for their handling of people with disabilities but physical and mental. Long considered a group of individuals that shouldn't be approached in film because no one wanted to be accused of exploiting them, most filmmakers either only showed disabled persons as being quiet, loving heroes in dramatic roles or just ignored that they existed at all.
The Farrellys have managed to include people with disabilities and let them be just another part of their movies, without either pitying them or unnecessarily glorifying them. The scene in this movie with the brother of Diaz asking people about his balls is funny. Go ahead and laugh. The scenes with the other individuals in the group home are funny as well. I work with individuals with disabilities and let me tell you that they're the first ones to laugh at these scenes. Why? Because while some well intentioned people might try to convince you that it's not right to be crude about the handicapped, what's being depicted in a Farrelly flick is pretty much true. Only those people who were just being unjustly offended by these scenes wouldn't realize that.
THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY has its weak points. There are portions where it drags without laughs and others where you can tell that they're clearly forcing a situation to be more disgusting than it should be because they think it will get laughs. In the end, however, there are some truly classic funny moments in the film.
Sidenote: before this movie was released I went to see some other flick and the theater was handing out these little sample packets of hair gel with the movie's logo on them. No one was taking them so the guy at the door let me have the last handful of what was in his basket. (That sounds so dirty....) I made off with about 15-20 packets and just threw them in a drawer.
About 6 months later when the movie was finally released and people were laughing their asses off about the hair gel scene, I went and dug out the packets and laughed my ass off.
I then promptly went on eBay and sold each one of them for $10 (and sometimes more) a pop.
Funny, these things we never see coming. Pun intended.
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