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In the Farrelly Brothers' ME, MYSELF & IRENE, Jim Carrey plays Charlie Baileygates, a Rhode Island State Trooper who develops a split personality disorder after his wife leaves him for an African-American midget genius. Due to years of denial and repression while raising triplet sons left behind by his wife and her lover, .. Read more

Starring Jim Carrey, Renee Zellweger, Chris Cooper, Richard Jenkins
Director Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Genres Comedy

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Me, Myself And Irene

In the Farrelly Brothers' ME, MYSELF & IRENE, Jim Carrey plays Charlie Baileygates, a Rhode Island State Trooper who develops a split personality disorder after his wife leaves him for an African-American midget genius. Due to years of denial and repression while raising triplet sons left behind by his wife and her lover, Charlie finally gets fed up with people taking advantage of his meek nature and snaps, taking on a lewd, aggressive second personality named Hank. Soon afterwards, Charlie is assigned by the police department to protect a woman named Irene (Renee Zellweger), who's being followed by some shady characters that want her dead. As the pair attempt to outwit their pursuers, the kind-hearted Charlie begins to fall for Irene, while battling his sleazy alter ego, Hank.
Back in full comedy mode after his more dramatic roles in THE TRUMAN SHOW and MAN ON THE MOON, Carrey once again displays his outlandish brand of physical humor. As with any Farrelly Brothers film, there are plenty of grossly funny yet good-natured moments. (In fact, Charlie's loving relationship with his three brilliant half-African-American sons is one of the film's best and funniest subplots.) Above all, it is the way that Carrey juggles the extreme personalities of Charlie and Hank--basically waging war against himself--that proves why he is one of Hollywood's best comedic actors.

Starring Jim Carrey, Renee Zellweger, Chris Cooper, Richard Jenkins, Robert Forster, Danny Green, Jessica Harper, Lin Shaye, Anthony Anderson
Director Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Studio 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 52 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 15.gif
Genres Comedy
Language English
Hearing-impaired English
Subtitles Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish
Released DVD: 18 Jun 2001
Production year: 2000
Format DVD
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  • 3 stars out of 5

    After flexing his dramatic muscles with The Truman Show and Man on the Moon, Jim Carrey is reunited with gross-out directorial brothers Bobby and Peter Farrelly, with whom he worked on Dumb and Dumber. As Charlie, a Rhode Island state trooper, he's a sweet-hearted loser who falls in love with Irene (Renée Zellweger), even though he's lumbered with three delightful grown-up black sons from his wife's adulterous liaison. Unfortunately, his vicious alter-ego Hank has also fallen for her — and schizophrenia has never been so comically painful as when Jekyll wrestles with Hyde for Irene's affections. As usual, the jokes are well below the limbo-line of taste — a chicken stuffed up the backside provokes gasps instead of giggles — but the movie delivers its vulgarity with almost surreal panache. Sadly though, the versatile Carrey looks to be trapped on the humour treadmill.

    • Radio Times
  • "...[Extends] the string of heartfelt, stomach-turning comedies that began with KINGPIN....[Carrey performs] the most amazing one-man wrestling match since Steve Martin [in ALL OF ME]..."

    • New York Times
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  • 5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Biased

    I love this film. I fully understand people who don't like this type of movie, or Jim Carey for that matter, but regardless of personal taste issues, here we are seeing a true comic genius at work and these guys don't come along all that often.

    It's just amazing how many facial tics and bizzare physical manifestations he is capable of creating and all of them are by degrees amusing or hysterical.

    I'm biased I love this film and I love Jim Careys work. If nothing else watch this film for the 'cotton mouth' sequence.

      • A customer from Hampton Hill
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  • 5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Biased

    I love this film. I fully understand people who don't like this type of movie, or Jim Carey for that matter, but regardless of personal taste issues, here we are seeing a true comic genius at work and these guys don't come along all that often.

    It's just amazing how many facial tics and bizzare physical manifestations he is capable of creating and all of them are by degrees amusing or hysterical.

    I'm biased I love this film and I love Jim Careys work. If nothing else watch this film for the 'cotton mouth' sequence.

      • A customer from Hampton Hill
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