Plot
A man gets a chance to meet up with his dream girl from highschool, even though his date with her back then was a complete disaster.
Release Year: 1998
Rating: 7.2/10 (128,990 voted)
Critic's Score: 69/100
Director:
Bobby Farrelly
Stars: Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon
Storyline Ted was a geek in high school, who was going to go to the prom with one of the most popular girls in school, Mary. The prom date never happened, because Ted had a very unusual accident. Thirteen years later he realizes he is still in love with Mary, so he hires a private investigator to track her down. That investigator discovers he too may be in love with Mary, so he gives Ted some false information to keep him away from her. But soon Ted finds himself back into Mary's life, as we watch one funny scene after another.
Writers: Ed Decter, John J. Strauss
Cast: Cameron Diaz
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Mary
Matt Dillon
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Healy
Ben Stiller
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Ted
Lee Evans
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Tucker
Chris Elliott
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Dom
Lin Shaye
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Magda
Jeffrey Tambor
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Sully
Markie Post
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Mary's Mom
Keith David
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Mary's Dad
W. Earl Brown
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Warren
Sarah Silverman
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Brenda
Khandi Alexander
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Joanie
Marnie Alexenburg
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Lisa
Danny Murphy
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Boss' Brother
(as Dan Murphy)
Richard Tyson
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Detective Krevoy
(as Richard M. Tyson)
Trivia:
After the financial losses suffered from
Kingpin, the Farrely brothers thought their next film would probably be their last. So they decided to go all out and deliver the most hysterically black comedy they could dream up. When
There's Something About Mary became a box-office smash hit, the Farrely's careers were safe to continue.
Goofs:
Continuity:
When Ted and Mary take Warren fishing, Ted gets a fishing lure accidentally hooked through his mouth, with hooks piercing his lip and cheek. However, in the very next scene (and for the rest of the film) he has no bandage, no wounds and no scars.
Quotes:
[first lines]
Ted:
[voice over]
When I was 16 years old, I fell in love.
User Review
Ya gotta have a sense of humor!
Rating: 8/10
When this film came out with all of the PR and things, I hated it. I hated
it without even seeing it. Then, as with many movies, I caught this on
Digital Cable TV, by accident. I had NO intention of seeing it, but once I
did, I cannot tell you how much I loved it.
This is the Farrley Brothers at their funniest. The idea is simple, a guy
(Ben Stiller) who had a crush on a woman (Carmen Diaz) he knew since high
school and continued to yearn for her privately, finally getting an
opportunity to try to reconnect what never got going. This is something
almost everyone can identify with.
What makes this work...is its a dead-on hard hitting comedy. The Farrley
Brothers spared no one: male or female, handicapped or able bodied, black or
white, rich or poor, job or not, straight or gay, animal or vegetable,
blonde or brunette, educated or not. It is NOT a cinematic masterpiece so
don't look for one, it is not a punch line comedy or slapstick comedy, it is
sophomore humor done very well because you're going to be laughing at what
you think you shouldn't no matter how much you want to say you would never
laugh at something like that.
Plus the Farrley Brothers added in "some things" that...well... may have
just happened to you at some point in your adolecence, and put a
comedic/gross quality to it that shocks you into laughing at it. All through
the film you might laugh because you're thinking, "Better them than
me".....even if it was you!
Not for eveyone's taste, even those who think they know comedy, but this is
that kinda comedy that is hard to do once you've reached maturity and
forgotten what it was like to laugh at simple things. This is as simple as
it gets. Don't put too much into it, it is what it is, and to me, it was
really funny! Good Show!
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