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Starring Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller, Matt Dillon...
...Stiller has once again found his chance to shine in this summer's comedy hit, There's Something About Mary. For those of you who missed Stiller's smashing turn in Flirting with Disaster, here's your chance to catch him at his very best--playing the lovable loser with a heart of gold. There's Something About Mary, though offensive and just plain gross at times, is still funny, original and not to be missed. Most of us left Mary still chuckling and wondering to ourselves where the writers could think up such scenarios and why more...
...that takes a twisted joyride and ends with a surprise. The plot is complicated and topsy-turvy, so to spare those who have not yet seen the movies, here is a quick rundown: beautiful Mary Jensen (Cameron Diaz) just cannot get away from stalkers. However, when Ted Stromman (Ben Stiller) wants to track her down 13 years after their dismal senior prom date, he is doing so because he still carries a torch for her, not from an unhealthy obsession. Add to the mixture pseudo private eye Matt Healy (the wonderful Matt Dillon who nearly steals the movie), the bizarre...
...Flirting with Disaster Plunging into it, more like. Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller) assumes that his birth parents are alive, well and no nutsier than his adoptive ones. The conventional wisdom of mental health dictates that he seek them out. The unconventional sensibility of writer-director David O. Russell dictates that nothing and no one Mel encounters on his odyssey shall turn out to be what they at first seem to be. Mel's social worker is terminally randy; his real mother and father are major drug traffickers; a pair of stern federal agents are revealed to be gently gay. Russell...
...instead of "Action!" he'd cry "Achtung!" Cinema Europe reveals him as an impishly sadistic fellow--he is seen lifting an actress' skirt while she tries to rehearse. But Hitch could make movies; Hollywood saw that. He went to the U.S., as had Lubitsch, Lang, Sjostrom, Stiller (and his young star Greta Garbo). Some were chased there by Hitler. European cinema was nearly stripped clean...