Dumb and Dumber [WS] [Blu-ray]

Director: Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly Peter Farrelly

Overview

Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels play the title roles (though viewers may find themselves debating which is which) in this genially low-brow comedy. Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) and Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels) are two intellectually-challenged best friends who share an apartment so messy that gangsters aren't sure how to trash the place; the guys also have a certain problem (not difficult to understand) holding on to jobs. Lloyd is working as a limo driver in Rhode Island when he picks up a beautiful and wealthy woman named Mary Swanson (Lauren Holly) who is being taken to the airport. Lloyd immediately falls head over heels in love with Mary, and when she leaves a briefcase at the airport, he's determined to return it in hopes of impressing her. Lloyd isn't able to get aboard Mary's flight (though not for lack of trying). Harry has a van decorated to look like a dog (to promote his failing dog-grooming business), and the pair hop in the Poochmobile to find Mary in Aspen. What Lloyd and Harry don't know is that the briefcase is full of money, which Mary deliberately left at the airport as a ransom payment to save the life of her kidnapped husband. Incidentally, Lloyd's chipped front tooth happens to be real; while Jim Carrey had the injured tooth capped many years ago, he thought a broken smile would suit Lloyd's character and had the cap removed for the duration of filming.

Product Details

Release Date:	12/09/2008
UPC:	0794043123450
Original Release:	1994
Rating:	NR
Source:	New Line Home Video
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:53:00
Sales rank:	10,916

Special Features

More Movie! six minutes of additional footage not seen in theaters; Additional scenes; Alternate endings; Still Dumb After All These Years retrospective documentary; Deliriously dumb moments: Big Fire Stunt, Kung Fu Chef, Most Annoying Sound and the Toilet Scene; Theatrical trailers

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Jim Carrey	Lloyd
Jeff Daniels	Harry
Lauren Holly	Mary
Mike Starr	Joe Mentalino
Karen Duffy	J.P. Shay
Charles Rocket	Nicholas Andre
Victoria Rowell	FBI Agent Beth Jordan
Joe Baker	Barnard
Hank Brandt	Karl Swanson
Teri Garr	Helen Swanson
Brady Bluhm	Billy
Cam Neely	Sea Bass
Felton Perry	Detective Dale
Brad Lockerman	Bobby
Rob Moran	Bartender
Kathryn Frick	Cashier
Zen Gesner	Dale's Man #1
Lawrence Kopp	Dale's Man #2
Clint Allen	Coroner
Connie Sawyer	Elderly Lady
Lin Shaye	Mrs. Neugeboren
Mike Watkiss	Reporter(as Mike Watkis)
Harland Williams	State Trooper
Diane Kinerk	Waitress #1
Lisa Stothard	Bus Stop Beauty
Sean Gildea	Sea Bass Friend
Helen Boll	Swanson Maid
Hillary Matthews Thomas	Waitress #2
Cecile Krevoy	Airport Bystander
Mark Levine	Preservation Partier
Todd Rundgren	Composer

Technical Credits

Peter Farrelly

Bennett Yellin

Peter Farrelly	Director,Director,Screenwriter,Screenwriter
Aaron Meyerson	Executive Producer
Gerald T. Olson	Executive Producer
Brad Krevoy	Producer
Steven Stabler	Producer,Producer
Charles B. Wessler	Producer
Bennett Yellin	Screenwriter
Dan Parada	Casting
Bob Terhune	Stunts
John Branagan	Stunts
Rick Montgomery	Casting
Don Shanks	Stunts
Norman Howell	Stunts
Debbie Carrington	Stunts

Editorial Reviews

When the dunderheaded duo of Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) and Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels) first arrived on the big screen during the 1994 holiday season, their lovably lame-brained antics helped make this comedy an unexpected hit. It also instantly turned sibling filmmakers Peter and Bobby Farrelly into hot Hollywood comedy commodities. This new Unrated Edition adds more than ten minutes of heretofore unseen footage to the film and additionally presents (as extras) two alternate endings and nine deleted and/or alternate scenes. As the story opens, Lloyd is working as a limo driver who takes wealthy, beautiful Mary Swanson (Lauren Holly) to the local airport. When she leaves her briefcase in the terminal, he retrieves it and, accompanied by Harry, drives cross-country to Aspen to return it to her personally. What they don't know is that the briefcase, bulging with cash, was deliberately left behind by Mary as a ransom payment to the kidnappers of her husband. Dumb and Dumber is exactly what its title suggests -- a goofball comedy with zero pretension to high art. Carrey's brand of rubber-faced, loose-limbed physical comedy is well deployed here, but what's still surprising is how closely Daniels keeps up with his more facile costar. The two of them work extremely well together, and Holly -- at that time, Carrey's girlfriend -- makes a charming foil. No doubt you've seen this film already, perhaps numerous times, in various TV airings. But the extra footage on the 2006 Unrated DVD edition -- including 40-plus minutes worth of deleted and alternate scenes -- is definitely worth an upgrade for Lloyd and Harry fans.

Barnes & Noble - Ed Hulse

No one can accuse Dumb and Dumber of holding anything back: If you're going to make a slapstick movie that includes giving a dead bird to a blind kid, you might as well do it right. The movie cemented Jim Carrey's status as a full-fledged Hollywood star; the enthusiastic Jeff Daniels is perfect in the role of his amiable companion. Brothers Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly concoct truly memorable, laugh-out-loud comic moments. As with the brothers' infamously funny There's Something About Mary (1998), Dumb has something of a heart beneath all the silliness and laxative jokes. Their scattershot approach to comedy produces more than a few misses, but for crude, unabashed slapstick fun, Dumb and Dumber will not disappoint.

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