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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, English, Spanish, Subtitled, Sensormatic
Filled with endless laughs and unbelievable sight gags, this "cheerfully crude and way over the line" (Los Angeles Times) romantic comedy is a "gut-busting blast" (USA Today). Still suffering form a high school crush on Mary (Cameron Diaz), the nerdy, angst-driven Ted (Ben Stiller) tracks her down thirteen years later with the help of sleazy private investigator Pat Healy (Matt Dillon). But after one look at Mary, Healy decides he wants her for himself and soon the two men are engaged in an outrageous all-out battle for Mary's affections.
"...cheerfully crude and way over the line..." Los Angeles Times
"The funniest movie of the decade." MTV Radio
"Outrageous!" People Magazine
"Sensational, sicko fun -- you won't believe your eyes..." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"...a gut-busting blast of tasteless tomfoolery." Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today
Editor's Note
THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY is a no-holds-barred comedy tour-de-force in which 30-something Ben Stiller locates and courts his high school dreamgirl (Cameron Diaz), unwittingly enlisting the help of some of her more hilariously psychotic suitors. In-your-face sight gags and unapologetic raunchiness disguise a riotously funny love story that is actually very sweet. Be amazed at the impeccable casting and stellar performances of the supporting players.
| Features | Alternate-Opening (Clay Animated Title Sequence) | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Audio: French, Spanish Dolby Digital Stereo | | Director's Audio Commentary By The Farrelly Brothers | | Dubbed: French, Spanish | | Includes Original Theatrical Version & Extended Version With 15 Minutes Of Restored Footage | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, Spanish | | With Each DVDs For The Cure Movie Purchase, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Will Donate 50 Cents (Toward A Minimum Donation Of $250,000) To Susan G. Komen For The Cure To Help In Its Passionate Fight Against Breast Cancer. Susan G. Komen For The Cure's Promise Is To Save Lives & End Breast Cancer Forever By Empowering People, Ensuring Quality Care For All & Energizing Science To Find The Cures. | | Writer's Audio Commentary By Ed Decter & John J. Strauss |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Foxvideo |
| Release Date: 9/18/2007 |
| Running Time: 119 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1998 | | Catalog ID: 2245481 | | UPC: 00024543454816 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Nominee (1999) | | | Golden Globe, There's Something About Mary, Best Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical | | | Golden Globe, Cameron Diaz, Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical | |
Winner (1999) | | | MTV Award, There's Something About Mary, Best Movie | | | MTV Award, Cameron Diaz, Best Female Performance | | | MTV Award, Ben Stiller, Best Fight | | | MTV Award, Matt Dillon, Best Villain | | | People's Choice, There's Something About Mary, Favorite Comedy Motion Picture |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY is sensational, sicko fun -- you won't believe your eyes....The biggest and boldest laughs around..." 08/06/1998 p.75-6Sight and Sound
"...Notable for its intelligence, invention and, unlikely as it may sound, compassion..." 10/01/1998 p.57-8 Entertainment Weekly
"...This time the Farrellys....have it figured out....[Dillon is] magnificently venal....[Diaz has a] blithe,easy charm..." -- Rating: A- 02/05/1999 pp.72-3 New York Times
"...The Farrelly brothers have made a film that's a hoot in every sense....The film works ridiculously well because it never stoops to being mean-spirited....The Farrellys display a crazy audacity that's worth admiring..." 07/15/1998 p.E1 Box Office
"...A fast-paced, hilarious comedy, THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY will have audiences laughing out loud..." 08/01/1998 p.46 Los Angeles Times
"...This terrific ensemble throws itself into THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY....The cast's ability to treat ridiculous situations with complete seriousness creates a whole lot of laughter..." 07/15/1998 p.C1 The New York Times 8 of 10
Sometimes Western civilization declines in deliriously funny style. Why bother to list the myriad offenses given by There's Something About Mary, the proudly obnoxious new film by Peter and Bobby Farrelly, when it's easier--definitely much too easy -- to enjoy them? In the raunchy wake of Dumb and Dumber and Kingpin, the Farrelly brothers have made a romantic comedy that's a hoot in every sense, worth a smidgen of disapproval and a whole lot of helpless laughter. But the Farrellys are as gleeful as they are crude, and they certainly aren't witless. The film works ridiculously well because it never stoops to being mean-spirited or (despite all appearances) authentically inane. The Farrellys display a crazy audacity that's worth admiring, and they take sure aim for the funny bone. There's Something About Mary may be many things, but dull and routine aren't among them. - Janet Maslin
Orlando Weekly 8 of 10
There's Something About Mary, the latest loopy comedy from gross-out siblings Peter and Bobby Farrelly, is driven by a nearly nonstop string of over-the-top moments likely to make older audiences cringe in disgust. Teen-agers and those of us delaying adulthood, though, may laugh until we cry as the writing-directing duo behind Dumb and Dumber and Kingpin roll out this ceaselessly bawdy tale of a loveable loser's quest for the girl of his dreams... The Farrellys' sweet-natured treat, a welcome respite from the murder, mayhem and malaise of much of the summer competition, takes cues from film noir and date-movie romances, and then flushes those elements down the toilet with a liberal sprinkling of bathroom humor. Ben Stiller, the second-generation comic actor so winning in 1995's Flirting with Disaster, is suitably dorky and shy as Ted Peloquin, a nerdnik with braces and ratty hair who's invited to go to the senior prom with Mary (Cameron Diaz of My Best Friend's Wedding), the cutest girl on campus. Yeah, right... There's Something About Mary may be too rude, lewd and crude to be enjoyed in polite company. So take a friend willing to brave embarrassment for the sake of a seriously silly treasure. Don't say you weren't warned. - Philip Booth
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