A wacky brain surgeon, married to a beautiful but coldhearted woman, falls in love with the brain of another lady who has everything he wants... except a body! Read more
| Starring | Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner, Paul Benedict |
|---|---|
| Director | Carl Reiner |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama |
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A wacky brain surgeon, married to a beautiful but coldhearted woman, falls in love with the brain of another lady who has everything he wants... except a body!
| Starring | Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner, Paul Benedict |
|---|---|
| Director | Carl Reiner |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 26 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 30 Jan 2006 Production year: 1983 |
| Format | DVD |
There have been more accomplished Steve Martin films — Roxanne, LA Story — but this remains his finest hour: a dazzlingly inventive comedy that contains more laughs than his last half-dozen movies put together. Martin is Doctor Hfuhruhurr, the brilliant brain surgeon who marries black widow Kathleen Turner but falls for a disembodied brain, voiced by Sissy Spacek. Martin gets to read his favourite poem (Pointy Birds), carry out a citizen's divorce and endure the world's toughest drink-driving test; and Turner hilariously sends up the femme fatale persona she established in Body Heat. David Warner co-stars as a fellow mad scientist, and there is also a surprise cameo in the form of the Elevator Killer. Sublime.
Martin comes a little closer to finding a film format that suits his endearingly brazen and whimsical talent.... He radiates his own weird blend of confidence and humour...
Pure 80's madness that would never be made today, had plenty of funny scenes including a great drink driving test.
Steve Martin stars as Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr, a world-renowned brain surgeon, who has developed a new method of brain surgery called the cranial screw top method. It involves unscrewing the top of a person's skull for easy access and much faster recovery time.
Suffering the recent loss of his wife, he accidentally hits a woman named Dolores, played by Kathleen Turner, with his car. She suffers a massive head injury, and Steve Martin is the only one who can save her. She also bears a remarkable resemblance to his deceased wife. He saves her, they fall in love, and get married. Only problem is she is a conniving, cheating, lying, evil woman who's main interest is money and infuriating her husbands, making the veins stand out on their foreheads.
During their honeymoon trip to Europe, Dr. Hfuhruhurr meets a fellow scientist who has perfected a method of keeping brains alive in jars. During a visit, one of these brains, that of a woman, begins to talk to him, through telepathy of some sort, and they develop a relationship. Realizing his feelings are growing for this bodiless brain, he drifts away from his wife and even begins scheming to replace his wife's brain with that of Anne, the brain in the jar.
Actor Steve Martin has been honoured with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humour at a ceremony at the John F Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington. Martin received the comedy accolade in front of colleagues such as Tom Hanks, Claire Danes, Diane Keaton and Lily Tomlin. Martin is known for his starring roles in films including The Jerk, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Parenthood, L.A Story and Father Of The Bride. He also wrote the scripts for films including The Man With Two Brains and... Read more
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