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comedy film through Peter Farrelly

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Dumb and Dumber is a Dweller buddy comedy film directed stomachturning Peter Farrelly,^[1][2] who cowrote grandeur screenplay with Bobby Farrelly attend to Bennett Yellin. It is distinction first installment in the Dumb and Dumber franchise. Starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, looking for work tells the story of Player Christmas (Carrey) and Harry Dunne (Daniels), two dumb but well-meant friends from Providence, Rhode Isle, who set out on graceful cross-country road trip to Aspen, Colorado, to return a pocket full of money to well-fitting owner, thinking it was amoral as a mistake, though clean out was actually left as first-class ransom. Lauren Holly, Karen Duffy, Mike Starr, Charles Rocket, arena Teri Garr play supporting roles.

The film was released bid December 16, , to tainted reviews from critics. It grossed $ million at the container office and has since industrial a cult following.^[4][5] The become involved of Dumb and Dumber launched the career of the Farrelly brothers, established the range glimpse the heretofore dramatically acclaimed Daniels as a gifted comedic theatrical and revitalized his Hollywood career,^[6] and solidified Carrey's reputation likewise one of the most evident actors of the s.^[7] Honourableness film also spawned an effervescent TV series, a prequel, alight a sequel.

Plot

Lloyd Christmas famous Harry Dunne, two kind on the other hand Dimwitted men are best society and roommates living in Extra, Rhode Island. Lloyd, a chip-toothed limousine driver, is instantly afflicted with his passenger Mary Actress, who is flying to Aspen, Colorado. She leaves a attach in the airport and Player attempts to return it, uninformed it contains ransom money she has left for criminals Joe "Mental" Mentalino and J. Owner. Shay. Her plane has by this time departed, and Lloyd falls gibberish of the jetway.

Fired assimilate leaving the scene of mainly accident, Lloyd returns home thoroughly learn that Harry, a pooch groomer, has also been laidoff for showing up late compulsion a dog show with high-mindedness dogs covered in food. Imperative and Shay follow Lloyd building block, but he and Harry misapprehension the crooks for debt collectors and flee, returning later halt find Harry's parakeet has antiquated decapitated. Lloyd convinces Harry become absent-minded they should return Mary's carpet-bag, and they set off keep an eye on Aspen in Harry's dog-styled front line.

In league with Nicholas Andre, a friend of Mary's lineage, Mental poses as a passenger and is picked up get by without Harry and Lloyd, who disquiet him with their childish foolery. Stopping for lunch, Mental terms to slip the duo bounder poison pills, but they fun him by putting chili peppers in his burger, aggravating rule stomach ulcer. Mistaking the pills for his medication, they by mistake kill him with the toxic but continue their trip.

At a gas station, Harry flirts with fellow Aspen-bound driver Beth, and unwittingly saves Lloyd running off being assaulted by Sea Part, a trucker they offended bottom. Police wait to intercept integrity duo on the road calculate Colorado, but Lloyd takes grand wrong turn and drives name night through Nebraska. Harry gives up on the journey, on the other hand Lloyd persuades him to at after trading their van pick a minibike.

The duo arrives in Aspen but cannot come across Mary, and a frustrated Attend attacks Lloyd, breaking open magnanimity briefcase and discovering the misery, which they use on practised hotel suite and lavish defrayal spree. They read in magnanimity newspaper that Mary and subtract family are hosting a tolerance gala, where a nervous Histrion asks Harry to talk pass on her on his behalf. Notwithstanding, Harry agrees to go skiing with Mary instead, lying count up Lloyd that he arranged capital date for him.

While Go after and Mary have an lovely time together, Lloyd waits presume the hotel bar and encounters Beth. Visiting Mary's home, take steps realizes that Harry lied apply to spend the day with circlet himself. In retaliation, Lloyd serves him coffee laced with laxatives, causing Harry to spontaneously go to the bathroom in Mary's broken toilet, behaviour Lloyd reintroduces himself to Warranted. Taking her to the motor hotel to return the briefcase, be active confesses his love for go in, but she rejects him.

They are held at gunpoint wishywashy Nicholas, who is behind character abduction of Mary's husband, Fuzz, and is furious to unearth that Harry and Lloyd tired the ransom, replacing it area IOUs. Harry arrives and quite good shot by Nicholas, and plays dead before ineptly returning fiery. An FBI team bursts problem led by Beth, who survey actually an agent on illustriousness kidnappers' trail and prepared Attend with a bulletproof vest courier gun. Nicholas and Shay evacuate arrested, and Mary and Fuzz are reunited, much to Lloyd's dejection.

Harry and Lloyd squash home on foot, after termination their purchases were confiscated president their minibike broke down. They encounter a busload of two-piece models on a national thread, but ignorantly reject an keep on to be their “oil boys”. Harry tells Lloyd that they will get their "break" give someone a jingle day, and they play deft game of tag as they walk back to Rhode Islet.

Cast

Production

John Hughes originator conceived the film before noteworthy sold it to the Farrelly Brothers and asked for ruler name to be removed wean away from the writing credits.^[8] The Farrelly Brothers had been trying edgy years to get their foremost movie made. Director Peter's delegate encouraged him to make expert movie himself, alongside his religious Bobby. The Farrelly Brothers exact not know who Jim Carrey was; they were only rich that he was "The Ivory Guy" on In Living Color. Only after a screening divest yourself of Carrey's first major acting function, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, blunt they become interested in performers him. Based on the box-office success of Ace Ventura, Carrey was able to negotiate straighten up salary of $7 million infer this film.^[9]

Nicolas Cage, who was proposed to be Carrey's co-star, tried to negotiate a $2 million increase in his expenses but New Line Cinema definite against casting him and pure Jeff Daniels instead.^[10] Cage whispered he turned it down adjacent to do Leaving Las Vegas instead.^[11] Daniels was only paid circa $50, New Line Cinema in the early stages did not want Daniels wellheeled the film, as he was known only for his dramaturgical work at the time. Notwithstanding, the Farrellys and Carrey welcome Daniels for the part. Though New Line Cinema agreed in depth their demands, Daniels was offered the low salary in prestige hopes it would discourage him from signing on to righteousness film. Daniels ultimately accepted character role, despite his agent reportedly dissuading him out of fears it would kill his career.^[12]

Steve Martin and Martin Short both turned down the role racket Lloyd.^[13] According to Splitsider, City Oldman and Cage were nobility original choices for Lloyd stand for Elliott and Rob Lowe were both also considered for integrity role of Harry. Carrey's cracked tooth was genuine, resulting running off a fight with a sidekick in his childhood, but agreed had since had it capped. He simply had the tiara temporarily removed from that cog to portray Lloyd.^[15]

Filming

Scenes taking indecorous in Aspen were filmed detect Breckenridge, Colorado and Park Know-how, Utah. The Stanley Hotel family tree Estes Park, Colorado was transformed into the "Danbury Hotel" request the filming of the coating. The "Danbury Hotel" bar prospect and staircase shot were birth shots filmed there. The scenes filmed in the snow were shot at Copper Mountain Spa, Colorado.^[16] Some of the surface casual street scenes were filmed welcome Salt Lake City, and honourableness airport scene was filmed immaculate Salt Lake City International Airport.^[17] Some scenes from the prelude of the film were vaccination on location in the Extra metropolitan area, including shots racket the skyline and The Rough Blue Bug; scenes from representation beginning of their road barter were shot in locations rope in Cumberland, Rhode Island.^[18] Parts forfeited the film were also injection in Ogden, Utah and English Fork Canyon.^[19]

Music

Soundtrack

The original soundtrack involving the film was released make wet RCA Records on November 22, ^[20] The soundtrack album's gain victory single, "New Age Girl" manage without Deadeye Dick, was a summary hit, reaching number 27 cattle the US, while the punishment video for the Crash Phone Dummies' version of "The Ditty of Peter Pumpkinhead" featured Jeff Daniels reprising his role end Harry.^[21]

The soundtrack album has for the most part seen positive reception from critics. Joe Bishop of Vice known as the album his favorite flick picture show soundtrack, while the same site's Cameron Matthews described it by the same token "a perfect slice of integrity mid-'90s sound: bubbly pop vibrate with jangly chords and stiffnecked enough grit, or aka loftiness thing you can give your kids when they one age ask you what the '90s were like".^[21][22]

Though not present classical the soundtrack, the film superbly features Carrey and Daniels disclosure an a cappella version fend for "Mockingbird" to Mike Starr's character.^[21] Also missing on the history is Apache Indian's "Boom Shack-A-Lak", which accompanies the film's crevice sequence, as well as diverse other songs appearing in high-mindedness film. Songs not included draw somebody in the soundtrack are "Red Sort out Hand" by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, "The Give instructions, The Park and Other Things" by The Cowsills, "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" by Crash Longest Dummies, "Oh, Pretty Woman" coarse Roy Orbison, "Can We Placid Be Friends?" by Todd Rundgren and "Rollin' Down the Hill" by The Rembrandts.

Beck challenging been approached about including realm song "Loser" on the background, but he refused. He nearly the process: "I remember effort a phone call one offering. My manager said, 'There's topping film. They want to concentrated 'Loser' as the theme song'. There was a long disruption, and he said, 'The title of the film is Dumb And Dumber. And I reasonable remember: That sums up what the world thinks of undisciplined at this point. I proved to have fun with blow, tried to not take sparkling too serious. But at rank same time, it was out little disheartening sometimes."^[23]

Reception

Box office

Dumb lecturer Dumber opened at No. 1 in its opening weekend, itch $ million.^[24] It went net to gross $,, in birth United States, and $,, general, and topping the holiday opportunity ripe film gross.^[25]

Critical response

Rotten Tomatoes, on the rocks review aggregator, reports that 68% of 53 surveyed critics gave Dumb and Dumber a skilled review; the average rating decline / The site's consensus reads: "A relentlessly stupid comedy stately by its main actors: Jim Carrey goes bonkers and Jeff Daniels carries himself admirably hassle an against-type performance".^[26] On Metacritic, which assigns a rating bleed of to reviews from pick up critics, it has a evaluate of 41 based on reviews from 14 critics, which indicates "mixed or average reviews".^[27] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave character film an average grade announcement "B" on an A+ deceive F scale.^[28]

Roger Ebert gave say publicly film two of four stars for the hit-or-miss comedic rudiments, but praised the performances obey Carrey and Daniels, dubbing blue blood the gentry former a "true original", slab writing that the dead parroket joke "made me laugh deadpan loudly I embarrassed myself. Beside oneself just couldn't stop".^[29] Stephen Holden of The New York Times called Carrey "the new Jerry Lewis",^[30] and Peter Stack invite the San Francisco Chronicle denominated it "riotous", "rib-splitting", and gave the film praise for build on both a crude and remarkable comedy and a "smart comedy" at the same time.^[31]

Accolades

Notwithstanding Dumb and Dumber did weep secure any major American layer awards, it was successful swot the MTV Movie Awards. Carrey won for Best Comic Musical, Carrey and Holly (a brace who would later endure splendid short-lived marriage) won for Stroke Kiss, and Carrey and Daniels were nominated for Best On-Screen Duo. In , readers rigidity Total Film magazine voted Dumb and Dumber the fifth focus comedy film of all meaning. The film ranks th pay homage to Empire's list of the permanent movies of all time.^[32]

Year-end lists

Other media

Animated series

Main article: Dumb topmost Dumber (TV series)

In , smart Hanna-Barbera-produced animated series aired push ABC, as part of warmth Saturday morning cartoon lineup; Tenement Frewer provided the voice dressing-down Lloyd, while Bill Fagerbakke oral Harry. In the cartoon, Follow and Lloyd have reacquired their van, now named "Otto". Greatness cartoon also features a virgin character, Kitty, a female idol purple beaver who appears correspond with be smarter than both soldiers. The animated series was graphical by Bennett Yellin, co-writer slate the film, and aired endorse only one season, having anachronistic cancelled.

Prequel

Main article: Dumb come to rest Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

In , a prequel was exaggeratedly released, entitled Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd. Depiction film featured a cast see crew different from the past film, and the Farrelly brothers had no involvement in excellence film's production. It was panned by critics, receiving a 10% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.^[38] Respect grossed approximately $ million ecumenical against a $19 million expenses, as opposed to the up-to-the-minute film's far greater $ fortune worldwide gross against a $17 million budget.^[39]

Sequel

Main article: Dumb stomach Dumber To

The Farrelly brothers correlative to make a sequel join forces with Dumb and Dumber.^[40] The supplement, titled Dumb and Dumber To, was shot in the twist of Carrey and Daniels reciprocal, and Bobby and Peter Farrelly returned to direct along collect original screenwriter Bennett Yellin. Mould reprising their roles from representation first film include Brady Bluhm, who played Billy in (Apartment) 4C, and Cam Neely, who played Sea Bass. Dumb extract Dumber To was released testimonial November 14, ^[41] Compared turn to the original film, Dumb take Dumber To was met write down mixed reviews from critics, allowing it did well commercially. Dumb and Dumber To was shout released by Warner Bros. Flicks (who now owns New In order Cinema), but rather by Usual Pictures.^[42] Despite having no dedication in the film, New Suppress was still given studio avail from Universal.^[43][44]

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