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Dumb and Dumber |
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| Directed by | Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly |
| Produced by | Brad Krevoy |
| Written by | Bennett Yellin, Peter Farrelly |
| Starring | Jim Carrey Jeff Daniels Lauren Holly Mike Starr Karen Duffy Charles Rocket |
| Editing by | Christopher Greenbury |
| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
| Release date(s) |  December 16, 1994 |
| Running time | 107 min. (theatrical cut) 113 min. (unrated version) |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $16 million |
| Followed by | Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd |
Dumb and Dumber is a 1994 American comedy film starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels. It was written and directed by the Farrelly brothers, featuring slapstick comedy and gross-out humor. Dumb and Dumber contributed to the launch of a successful career for them and set the foundation for many Farrelly Brothers movies to come. It has a devoted cult following.
A prequel, Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd – which contained none of the original film's cast – was released in 2003 to extremely poor reviews and bombed at the box office.
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Lloyd Christmas is a limo driver in Providence who becomes infatuated with his passenger, Mary Swanson, as he drives her to the airport. Mary is heading home to her family in Aspen, after dropping off a briefcase with a large sum of cash at the airport terminal, as ransom money for her kidnapped husband. Lloyd witnesses the drop-off, and, thinking Mary had lost the briefcase by mistake, intercepts the package before the kidnappers pick up their pay, dashing ahead of them to snag the briefcase. Lloyd is unable to catch Mary in time, and is left on the runway of the airport with briefcase in hand (after falling out of the terminal, having run out of an empty jet bridge).
Harry Dunne, Lloyd's roommate, is in the pet grooming business, and has recently spent his life savings converting his van (a 1984 Ford Econoline) into a sheepdog. Both Lloyd and Harry quickly lose their jobs due to preventable accidents, and the two are distraught over their situation. Thinking Lloyd is a "professional" hired by the Swansons, or perhaps an FBI agent, the kidnappers exact revenge on Harry and Lloyd by beheading Harry's pet parakeet while the pair are out looking for new jobs. Lloyd convinces Harry they should leave their messed up lives in Providence behind and head for Aspen to return the briefcase to Mary, unaware the locked briefcase contains enough money to support them both.
On their way to Aspen, Harry and Lloyd have several misadventures, inadvertently kill one of the kidnappers by accidentally feeding him rat poison, and wind up separating when Lloyd takes a wrong turn and drives them to Nebraska instead of Colorado. Out of gas, Harry begins walking home, but Lloyd is able to trade the van for a small scooter, and the two drive to Aspen.
Unable to remember Mary's last name, or locate her in the phone directory, the two spend a cold night in a park. They end up in a tussel, and in the process knock open the briefcase and discover the money. The two decide to "spend it responsibly" and keep track of all expenditures with "I.O.U's", but they end up living extravagantly, they check-in at a luxury hotel, buy a Lamborghini, have full body make-overs, and get expensive, off-color suits. Lloyd tries to use the money to woo Mary before revealing he has the briefcase, but Mary ends up befriending Harry, whose stupidity she mistakes for intentional humor. Harry and Lloyd both mistake Mary's friendship with Harry as a romantic interest.
Eventually the two are found out by the kidnappers, who hold the three hostages in their hotel room at gunpoint. When Lloyd reveals all the money is gone, replaced with I.O.U's written on dirty napkins, the kidnapper freaks and almost kills the pair. The FBI intercept, and Mary is reunited with her husband, much to Lloyd's dismay, who didn't even realize Mary was married.
With no money, the two begin to walk home. Along the way, they inadvertently turn down a chance to be oil boys for Hawaiian Tropic bikini models, instead walking off together, saying to each other how two lucky guys will get to tour all over the country rubbing down the girls before shows. Lloyd reassures Harry that "someday we'll get our big break too, we've just got to keep our eyes open".
The film was very successful at the box office, grossing $127,175,374 in the United States, and $246,400,000 worldwide, and topping the holiday season film gross.1
The movie gained a 60% "fresh" rating at Rottentomatoes.2 While Roger Ebert gave the film only two of four stars (despite lauding Carrey's performance and the dead parakeet joke),3 most reviews were positive. Stephen Holden of the New York Times called Jim Carrey "the new Jerry Lewis",4 and Peter Stack of the San Francisco Chronicle called it "riotous", "rib-splitting", and gave the film praise for being both a crude and slapstick comedy and a "smart comedy" at the same time.5
Although the film did not come away with any major American motion picture awards, it was very successful at the MTV Movie Awards. Jim Carrey won for Best Comic Performance, Carrey and Lauren Holly (a couple who would later endure a short-lived marriage) won for Best Kiss, and Jim Carrey & Jeff Daniels were nominated for Best On-Screen Duo.
In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted Dumb and Dumber the 15th greatest comedy film of all time.
Scenes taking place in Aspen were actually filmed in Breckenridge, Colorado and Park City, Utah. The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado (the main influence for The Overlook Hotel in Stephen King's The Shining) was transformed into the "Danbury Hotel" for the filming of the movie. The scenes filmed in the snow were shot at Copper Mountain Resort.
Most of the external street scenes were filmed in Salt Lake City.citation needed The opening scene (the limo scene) was filmed on 500 East, between 500 South and 600 South. The external courtyard of Harry and Lloyd's apartment (where they give the little blind boy Petey the parrot) was filmed on the corner of that same street.clarification needed The scene with the sweet ol' lady on the motorized cart was filmed in front of Thomson & Burrows Antique Store on 270 East and 300 South. The interior shots of Harry and Lloyd's apartment were filmed in the historic Union Pacific Railway Station in downtown Salt Lake. Mary Swanson's mansion in the beginning was filmed at LaCaille Restaurant near Big and Little Cottonwood Canyon. The airport scenes were all shot at the Salt Lake City International Airport.citation needed
Some scenes from the beginning of the movie were also shot on location in the Providence, Rhode Island metropolitan area, including shots of the skyline, The Big Blue Bug, and scenes from the beginning of their road trip were shot in locations in Cumberland.
After the guys pull the bill-paying stunt on Sea Bass, Harry asks Lloyd where he got that idea. Lloyd tells him that he saw it in a movie. This is a reference to the movie Something Wild in which Jeff Daniels does the same thing to Ray Liotta.citation needed
Harry and Lloyd are presumably named after silent comedy film star Harold Lloyd.citation needed
While parking in the airport you can over hear "The white zone is for loading and unloading passengers only, no parking in the white zone". This is a reference to the movie Airplane!.citation needed
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A prequel, Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd was released in 2003 to largely negative reviews from the popular media and a low box office income.
In 1995, a Hanna-Barbera-produced animated sequel aired on ABC television, as part of its Saturday morning cartoon lineup; Matt Frewer provided the voice of Lloyd, while Bill Fagerbakke voiced the character of Harry. In the cartoon, Harry and Lloyd have reaccquired their van. The cartoon also features a new character, Kitty, a female pet purple beaver who appears to be smarter than both men. The animated series was written by Bennett Yellin, co-writer of the original film.
| Dumb and Dumber: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
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| Soundtrack by Various Artists | ||
| Released | November 22, 1994 | |
| Genre | Soundtrack | |
| Length | 46:51 | |
| Label | RCA | |
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Dumb and Dumber: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the original soundtrack to the film.
The song "The Rain, The Park, and Other Things" by The Cowsills was not in the soundtrack, although it was played quite prominently in the montage of Lloyd fantasizing about Mary, nor was "Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbison, though it was featured prominently in the make-over montage.
Also missing are "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" by the Crash Test Dummies, "Red Right Hand" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, "Can We Still Be Friends" by Todd Rundgren (who also wrote the original soundtrack) and "Boom Shack-a-lak" by Apache Indian.
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