The Man with Two Brains
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| Directed by | Carl Reiner |
| Produced by | William E. McEuen David V. Picker |
| Written by | Steve Martin Carl Reiner George Gipe |
| Starring | Steve Martin Kathleen Turner |
| Music by | Joel Goldsmith |
| Cinematography | Michael Chapman |
| Editing by | Bud Molin |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | 1983 |
| Running time | 93 min. |
| Country | U.S. |
| Language | English |
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The Man with Two Brains is a 1983 U.S. film directed by Carl Reiner and starring Steve Martin and Kathleen Turner.
Written by Martin and George Gipe, the film is a broad comedy. Martin plays Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr, a pioneering neurosurgeon with a cruel and unfaithful new wife, Dolores Benedict (Kathleen Turner).
In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted The Man with Two Brains the 35th greatest comedy film of all time.
[edit] Plot
Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr (Martin), a widowed brain surgeon renowned for inventing a method of 'cranial screw-top' brain surgery, saves the life of Benedict (Turner), a gold-digging femme fatale who is accidentally run over by Hfuhruhurr when fleeing the scene of her latest husband's fatal coronary (which her malicious mind-games and scheming caused). As she recovers, Hfuhruhurr falls in love with her and they marry. She torments him by pretending to be too ill to consummate the marriage, driving him into a frenzy of frustration. On a honeymoon/business trip to a medical conference in Vienna, a city living in fear of the serial "Elevator Killer", Hfuhruhurr discovers that his adored new wife is really "a cheap, vulgar slut." He then meets mad scientist Dr. Alfred Necessiter (David Warner), who has created a radical new technique enabling him to store living brains in liquid-filled jars.
Hfuhruhurr discovers he can communicate telepathically with one of the brains, that of Ann Uumellmahaye (voiced by Sissy Spacek). The two immediately fall in love. The confluence of a spate of random murders and the possibility of brain transplantation causes Hfuhruhurr to speculate about how he might improve his lot in life...
[edit] Quotes
Dr. Hfuhruhurr and a little girl discussing Benedict's condition:
- Girl: Sounds like a subdural hemathoma to me.
- Dr. Hfuhruhurr: Oh it does, does it?! Well, it's not your job to diagnose!
- Girl: But I thought...
- Dr. Hfuhruhurr: You thought, you thought, just go! Three weeks of nursery school and you think you know it all! Well, you're still wet behind the ears! It's not "subdural hemathoma", it's epidural! Ha! Goddamn that makes me mad!
In conversation with Dr. Necessiter:
- Dr. Necessiter: As you know, my experiments have progressed to the point where I can transfer the contents of a human brain into a gorilla."
- Dr. Hfuhruhurr: I can't fuck a gorilla.
In conversation with Dr. Necessiter's butler:
- Butler: You and your wife are expected for dinner.
- Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr: My wife won't be coming.
- Butler: Oh, I trust she is not ill?
- Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr: She's not ill, she's a cheap, vulgar slut.
- Butler: Ja, I have heard this.
When police break into a science lab:
- Officer: You are under arrest for murder!
- Dr. Hfuhruhurr: We are not killing! We are resurrecting! Moving life from one body to another!
- Officer: You are playing God!
- Dr. Hfuhruhurr: SOMEBODY has to!
When operation is done:
- Dr. Necessiter: Good news. The operation is a success but the doctor died.
After getting stopped by a police officer in Austria
