| There's Something About Mary | |
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| Directed by | Bobby Farrelly Peter Farrelly |
| Produced by | Bobby Farrelly Peter Farrelly |
| Written by | Ed
Decter John J. Strauss Peter Farrelly Bobby Farrelly |
| Starring | Cameron Diaz Matt Dillon Ben Stiller Chris Elliott Lee Evans |
| Music by | Jonathan Richman |
| Cinematography | Mark Irwin |
| Editing by | Christopher Greenbury |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | July 15, 1998 |
| Running time | Theatrical cut 119 min. Extended cut 134 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $23,000,000 |
| Gross revenue | $369,884,651 |
There's Something About Mary is a 1998 romantic comedy film, directed by the Farrelly brothers, Bobby and Peter. It stars Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon and Ben Stiller, it is a combination of romantic comedy and gross-out film.
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 movie has made $369 million worldwide, including $176 million in the U.S. alone.[1]
The film was placed 27th in the American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies (see the 100 Years Series), a list of the 100 funniest movies of the 20th century. In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted it the 4th greatest comedy film of all time. Cameron Diaz received a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance.
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Awkward and shy high-schooler Ted (Ben Stiller) lands a prom date with his dream girl Mary (Cameron Diaz), just to have it cut short by a painfully humiliating zipper accident (his penis gets caught in his fly).
Thirteen years later, Ted is still in love - maybe even obsessed - with her. On the advice of his best friend Dom (Chris Elliott), he hires sleazy private detective Pat Healy (Matt Dillon) to track her down. Healy finds that she is an orthopedic surgeon living in Miami with her friend Magda, but he falls in love with the irresistible Mary as well. Healy resorts to lying, cheating, stalking and drugging Magda's dog to win Mary but is exposed by Mary's architect friend, the apparently crippled Tucker (comedian Lee Evans). Tucker, however, turns out to be a fraud himself, a pizza boy who is also in love with Mary and drives potential rivals away by slander, including Brett Favre, the famous American football star (playing himself), whom she almost married.
Ted (aided by Dom) drives down to Florida and seems to have won Mary's love, until an anonymous letter exposes his being less than honest about his link to Healy. While Ted confronts Healy and Tucker, Mary is confronted by Dom, who turns out to be her former boyfriend Woogie, who had "got weird on her" in college, setting up the original prom scenario. Having found out that Tucker also lied about Mary's former love interest, football player Brett Favre, Ted decides that Mary should be with Brett, as Brett was the only one who did not resort to deceit to win Mary. After reuniting Brett and Mary, Ted leaves tearfully but Mary however chases after him, preferring him over Brett. The film concludes with the two engaging in a kiss while a guitarist (Jonathan Richman) who narrates/sings along all the story is accidentally shot by Magda's boyfriend who was trying to kill Ted so he could win over Mary.
American Film Institute recognition
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There's Something About Mary is a 1998 film about an awkward high school boy who gets a prom date with his dream girl Mary, only to have it only to have it ruined by a very humiliating zipper incident. Thirteen years later he gets another chance.
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