| There's Something About Mary  (1998),
				Director: Peter and Bobby Farrelly, rated R for 
				language, crude humor 
				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
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