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There's Something About Mary
For Ted, prom night went about as bad as it’s possible for any night to go. Thirteen years later, he finally gets another chance with his old prom date, only to run up against other suitors including the sleazy detective he hired to find her.
1998 · Directed by Bobby Farrelly · 120 min · Romance · Comedy · Screenplay in the scene database · 17 frames
Tagline
Love is in the hair.
Plot
A singing narrator, Jonathan, introduces a high school student in Cumberland, Rhode Island, Ted Stroehmann, who admires fellow student Mary Jensen from a distance. After Ted stands up to bullies in 1985 to protect her developmentally disabled brother Warren, Mary asks Ted to the prom, as she has broken up with her boyfriend, Woogie. On the night of the prom, Ted gets his scrotum stuck in his zipper. Ted is taken to the hospital after painfully becoming unzipped and misses the prom. After that, Mary moved away, and Ted lost contact.
13 years later, Ted is a writer and thinks about Mary constantly. His best friend, Dom Woganowski, refers Ted to a private investigator, Pat Healy, to track her down. Pat discovers that she is an orthopedic surgeon living in Miami with Warren. After seeing Mary, Pat also becomes fixated on her. He lies to Ted about Mary, to try to disgust him and discourage him from contacting Mary. Pat moves to Miami, where he spies on Mary, and uses the information to charm her into dating him.
Ted finds out that Pat lied about Mary. While driving to Miami to find Mary, he picks up a hitchhiker. The police arrest him for murder after finding a bag with body parts in his car that the hitchhiker left behind. Ted is released after the hitchhiker confesses to being the culprit. Ted arrives in Miami with Dom, who picked him up from jail after seeing the arrest on TV.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Ed Decter, John J. Strauss, Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly
- Cinematography: Mark Irwin
- Edited by: Christopher Greenbury
- Music: Jonathan Richman
- Produced by: Frank Beddor, Michael Steinberg, Bradley Thomas, Charles B. Wessler
Cast
- Cameron Diaz as Mary Jensen
- Matt Dillon as Pat Healy
- Ben Stiller as Ted Stroehmann
- Lee Evans as Tucker
- Chris Elliott as Dom Woganowski
- Lin Shaye as Magda
- Jeffrey Tambor as Sully
- Markie Post as Sheila Jensen
- Keith David as Charlie Jensen
- W. Earl Brown as Warren Jensen
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: 20th Century Fox
- Budget: $23,000,000
- Box office: $369,900,000
- Themes: surgeon, romcom, stalker, dream girl, taboo, screwball comedy, frisbee, troubadour, intellectual disability
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