Everyone's talking about Mary...

Starring: Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Ben Stiller, Lee Evans, Chris Elliott, Lin Shaye, Jeffrey Tambor, Markie Post, Keith David, Sarah Silverman

DML Rating: ★★★★★★★★★★ - perfect

"I want a guy who can play 36 holes of golf, and still have enough energy to take Warren and me to a baseball game, and eat hot dogs, I'm talking sausage hot dogs and beer, not Lite beer, but beer. That's my ad, print it up." - Mary

Why watch this? This film has certainly grown on me. It's gross and crude, but what the hell - it very much fits me.

Plot Summary: Ted attempts to reconnect with his high school crush, Mary, whom he hasn't seen since a disastrous prom night incident. He hires a private investigator to find her, but the detective, Pat Healy, also becomes infatuated with Mary and tries to win her over by sabotaging Ted's efforts. This leads to a comedic entanglement as various men, including Mary's friend Tucker, resort to increasingly desperate and deceptive measures to secure her affection.

Dad's Preview: This Farrelly effort is inappropriate, gross, sexually over-the-top, yet somehow manages to be one of the funniest love stories committed to film. Stiller, per usual, plays the nice guy too shy and awkward to get the girl. Matt Dillon, as Healy, steals a lot of scenes, yet it's the clumsy chemistry between Stiller and Diaz that carries the film. That and the fact that no "dating disaster" topics are off-limits for our demented filmmakers. If somebody offers you hair gel, must ignore them.

Michael Steinberg, Bradley Thomas, Charles B. Wessler,
Frank Beddor; 20th Century Fox