CAST:
Jim Carrey,
Jeff Daniels,
Lauren Holly,
Mike Starr,
Karen Duffy,
Charles Rocket

SCRIPT:
Peter Farrelly,
Bennett Yellin,
Bobby Farrelly

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Mark Irwin

MUSIC:
Todd Rundgren

EDITING:
Christopher Greenbury

Synopsis:

Limousine driver Lloyd Christmas and traveling dog grooming salon manager Harry Dunne are best friends, but also quite peculiar fellows. Both of them live in the city of Providence, Rhode Island, neither of them can be said to be particularly bright, and what they have in common is a very unusual sense of humor.

Lloyd and Harry are constantly pulling various pranks and up to some antics, and basically acting like immature and ill-mannered boys who are allowed to do anything. But when Lloyd receives an extremely attractive girl Mary as a client in a limousine one day, he has no idea that it will change his life quite a bit.

Mary needs a ride to the airport, from where she is traveling to Aspen, Colorado, but Lloyd only knows that he has fallen hard for her. When she deliberately leaves her briefcase at the airport before the flight, Lloyd will see it as an opportunity to meet her again. He is determined to get to Aspen by any means possible and deliver the briefcase to Mary, and he believes that nothing can stop him from doing so. When she gets home and tells Harry to pack because they're both moving to Aspen, he readily agrees because they're already plagued by a pile of unpaid bills.

What awaits them is a long and exciting journey, and the search for Mary after they arrive in Aspen. They do not know, however, that the money in the briefcase is intended as a ransom for Mary's kidnapped husband, and that it will further complicate both of their lives.

In 1995, nominated for MTV Movie and Television Awards in three categories, including Best Comedic Performance by Jim Carrey, the anarchic moronic comedy for the lead role in which Carrey was also nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst New Star in the same year, debut is the directorial work of brothers Peter and Bobby Farrelly.

During the 90s and at the turn of the century, the Farrelly brothers were uneven in quality. but with the commercially very successful titles Dumb and Dumber, King of All Heads, All Crazy for Mary and Ja, Ja and Irena established what seemed to be the undisputed rulers of the then new American comedy. Their mostly thoughtfully conceived and deftly directed works, which is especially true for the hits Dumb and Dumber and Everyone's Crazy for Mary, were full of picturesque and eccentric characters, moved by dark humor, constant ironic and subversive departures, as well as an emphatically affirmative attitude towards the marginalized and the physically handicapped. , a relationship masked by apparent rudeness and often down-to-earth humor.

But then, in 2005, the hit Junfer appeared in the 40s of the then young and talented Judd Apatow, and then it seemed that a new king of Hollywood comedy had arrived, who added anarchy to bizarre plots, picturesque protagonists and love for marginals and revived the spirit in a certain way of American comedies in the 70s of the last century.

At the same time, for the Farrelly brothers, at the turn of the millennium, there was a visible creative stumbling and a drastic qualitative decline of their films, and with a certain exception with the film Love Is Blind, they suddenly softened and began to string together more and more pale, uninteresting, in every sense benign and witless titles as they culminated in the completely failed sequel to their relatively cult work Dumb and Dumber from 2014.

In recent years, the Farrelly brothers have been working primarily on television, as producers and directors, they are the authors of the acclaimed comedy series Loudermilk and the award-winning comedy crime series Trailer Park Boys, but they no longer work together as film writers and directors.

It seems that Peter Farrelly is more ambitious as a director, because not only did he independently sign the excellent biographical social humor drama Green Book: A Guide to Life in 2018, which won Oscars for Best Picture, Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali) and Original Screenplay, but four years later he also directed as an independent author the relatively well-known, but undistributed in our country, adventurous humorous war drama The Greatest Beer Ever Run.

The film Dumb and Dumber was once a big hit, and over time it acquired a certain cult status, and essentially represents the essence of the Farrelly brothers' authorial approach and cinematic humor. Everything is in the number, from basically likable marginals and their affirmation, through eccentric characters and offbeat humor to the affirmation of people with physical handicaps and down-to-earth humor behind which altruism is hidden. The film is carried by Jim Carrey, then a young comedian whose 1994 was a turning point in his career, because he played roles in the hits Ace Ventura: Silly Detective, The Mask and in this film, and Jeff Daniels, an actor who is equally good in both comedic and serious roles. dramatic roles.

Text author: Josip Grozdanić

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