Me, Myself & Irene
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| Directed by | Farrelly Brothers |
| Produced by | Farrelly Brothers Bradley Thomas |
| Written by | Farrelly Brothers Mike Cerrone |
| Starring | Jim Carrey Renée Zellweger |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | June 23, 2000 |
| Running time | 111 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $51,000,000 (estimated) |
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Me, Myself & Irene is a 2000 comedy film directed by the Farrelly Brothers, and starring Jim Carrey and Renée Zellweger. Chris Cooper, Robert Forster, Richard Jenkins, Daniel Greene, Anthony Anderson, Jerod Mixon, and Mongo Brownlee co-star.
Tony Cox, Traylor Howard, Anna Kournikova and Cam Neely have cameo roles.
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[edit] Plot summary
The film follows Charlie Baileygates, a Rhode Island State Police trooper who has been taken advantage of by people throughout his life; even after marriage, his wife deserts him for a black dwarf limo driver, who is really a college professor (and president of the Rhode Island chapter of Mensa) doing an experiment. The little professor beats Charlie up, eventually steals his wife and leaves Charlie to raise his three highly intelligent but profanity-spewing mixed-race "sons". After some time, his anger builds up and Charlie develops a rude and violent split personality named Hank. Believing that Charlie needs a vacation, the force tells him to escort a beautiful woman named Irene to upstate New York. When some hitmen come after Irene's life, Charlie (and Hank) are called on to save the day.
[edit] Soundtrack
The movie's soundtrack contains several covers of Steely Dan songs performed by other bands, as well as the song that plays in the movie when Charlie changes into Hank ("Fire Like This" by Hardknox), "Breakout (song)" by Foo Fighters, "Totalimmortal" a cover of AFI but performed by The Offspring , the romantic theme, "The World Ain't Slowin' Down" by Ellis Paul, and "Strange Condition" by Pete Yorn.
[edit] Box office
Domestic Gross: $90,570,999
International Gross: $58,700,000
Total: $149,270,999
[edit] Trivia
- Due to their work together on the film, Jim Carrey and Renée Zellweger briefly dated.
- During a scene near the end of the movie, Charlie calls another highway patrolman "Sea Bass." Sea Bass is the name of a man with whom Carrey's character "Lloyd" had a conflict in the Farrelly Brothers' comedy Dumb and Dumber and is portrayed by Canadian ice hockey player Cam Neely in both films.
- When Hank gets mad because one of the baseball players throws a cigarette on the floor, the name on their jerseys say "Cerrone." Perhaps named after one of the writers Mike Cerrone.
[edit] Cast
- Jim Carrey – Charlie Baileygates/Hank Evans
- Renée Zellweger – Irene P. Waters
- Chris Cooper – Lieutenant Gerke
- Robert Forster – Colonel Partington
- Richard Jenkins – Agent Boshane
- Daniel Greene – Dickie Thurman
- Anthony Anderson – Jamaal Baileygates
- Mongo Brownlee – Lee Harvey Baileygates
- Jerod Mixon – Shonté Jr. Baileygates
- Tony Cox – Shonté Jackson
- Traylor Howard – Layla Baileygates
