Crazy for Mary

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Movie
German title Crazy for Mary
Original title There's Something About Mary
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Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1998
length 114 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Peter and Bobby Farrelly
script Ed Decter ,
John J. Strauss ,
Bobby Farrelly,
Peter Farrelly
production Frank Beddor ,
Michael Steinberg ,
Bradley Thomas ,
Charles B. Wessler
music Jonathan Richman
camera Mark Irwin
cut Christopher Greenbury
occupation
synchronization

There's Something About Mary is a US film comedy from Peter and Bobby Farrelly with Cameron Diaz , Matt Dillon and Ben Stiller in 1998. Something About Mary is ranked 27 in the list of 100 best English-language comedies , which the American Film Institute to 100 year anniversary of American film.

action

Ted can his swarm of teenage times , the charming Mary, remember. However, 13 years after his rendezvous with her ended embarrassingly, he is no longer in contact with Mary. In order to track them down, Ted hires the dubious private detective Pat Healy.

Pat can actually find Mary in Miami , but he also falls in love with her and casts off his rival Ted with lies. But not only the two are "crazy about Mary". Even the pizza delivery boy Norman, who Marys confidence to be on crutches walking architect has surreptitiously Tucker has a great weakness for them. He manages to reveal Pat's lies in order to continue his own lies and to denounce him as a murderer in front of Mary.

Meanwhile, Ted learns the truth from a former school friend and sets off for Miami. The two get closer. But then Mary receives an anonymous letter and learns that it was Ted who asked Pat to spy on her. The letter is from Ted's friend Dom, who was once Mary's boyfriend in college , but she broke up with him because he was pushy and possessive. Last but not least, Mary's ex- fiancé , football star Brett Favre , turns up.

In the end, Ted says he will forego winning Mary. He just wants her to be happy. He says goodbye to her and leaves. Mary calls after him that she would be happiest with him. The two hug and kiss.

Others

The film was a success in the USA: It made it to number 1 in the weekly box office in the eighth week, grossed a total of over USD 176 million (production costs around USD 23 million) and became the third most successful film of 1998.

  • Before Ted is interrogated, one of the detective introduces himself and his colleague as Detectives Stabler and Krevoy. Steve Stabler and Brad Krevoy were the producers of the Farrelly brothers' previous film, Dumb and Dumber .
  • Many of the extras are friends of the Farrelly brothers.
  • Actually, Steve Young provided for the role of the secret ex-boyfriend of Mary. However, as a practicing Mormon, he declined to appear in the film.
  • After Warren is hit in the face by a ball in a baseball training cage, Ted gives him a baseball signed by Tony Conigliaro . Conigliaro was also hit once in the face by a baseball and was seriously injured.
  • One of the producers is named, like the private detective in the film, Patrick Healy.
  • After talking to the hitchhiker, Ted stops his car in a parking lot to mictate. The homosexuals that he involuntarily meets are almost all members of the film crew.
  • In the film, Ted and Healy fight over a woman named Mary. Also in Dumm und Dumber , another film by the Farrelly brothers, two men fight for a Mary.
  • In the hitchhiker's bag there was actually a human being, Cameron Diaz. She told this on Jay Leno's Tonight Show .
  • Cameron Diaz's father also has a small role in the film as Ted's cellmate.
  • In 2011, Cameron Diaz revealed in an interview that the film was originally supposed to be called Zu farück after Mary to allude to Ben Stiller's Austrian roots.
  • The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating "valuable".

synchronization

The German dubbing was done by Interopa Film GmbH Berlin in 1998. The dialogue book was written by Sven Hasper , who also directed the dubbing and lent Lee Evans his voice.

role actor Voice actor
Ted Ben Stiller Oliver Rohrbeck
Mary Cameron Diaz Katrin Fröhlich
Healy Matt Dillon Charles Rettinghaus
Dom Chris Elliott Andreas Fröhlich
Tucker Lee Evans Sven Hasper
Magda Lin Shaye Kerstin Sanders-Dornseif
Sully Jeffrey Tambor Norbert Gescher
Warren W. Earl Brown Stefan Krause
Mary's mother Markie Post Traudel Haas
Stepfather Keith David Torsten Michaelis
Singer Jonathan Richman Tom Luca

Reviews

"'Postmodern' romantic comedy that takes typical comedy situations to an extreme with a series of gross tastelessness and does not shy away from cynical jokes at the expense of minorities."

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release Certificate for Mad About Mary . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2006 (PDF; test number: 80 597 V / DVD / UMD).
  2. ↑ There's Something About Mary at Box Office Mojo (accessed May 26, 2011)
  3. ↑ Inside The Actors Studio Cameron Diaz on Inside the Actors Studio hosted by James Lipton (accessed May 2, 2013)
  4. ↑ Crazy About Mary on fbw-filmbeval.com
  5. ↑ Thomas Bräutigam : Stars and their German voices. Lexicon of voice actors . Schüren, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89472-627-0 , enclosed data CD.
  6. ↑ Crazy About Mary. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used