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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! Read more

Starring Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner, Paul Benedict
Director Carl Reiner
Genres Comedy, Drama

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The Man With Two Brains

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 DVD Certificate 15.gif
Genres Comedy, Drama
Language English
Released DVD: 30 Jan 2006
Production year: 1983
Format DVD

  • Critics' reviews (6) of The Man With Two Brains

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  • 5 stars out of 5

    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.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • 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...

    • New York Times
    • Posted 08 Oct 2007

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  • 31 out of 44 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    80's film

    Pure 80's madness that would never be made today, had plenty of funny scenes including a great drink driving test.

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  • 8 out of 8 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Steve Martin was never funnier.

    This is probably the funniest film of Steve Martin's early career.

    The plot concerns a brain surgeon who falls for a scheming, murderous villan played by Kathleen Turner at her wicked best. She is trying to bump him off for his money whilst he tries desperatley to make love to her.

    Sexually frustrated, he falls in love with a disembodied brain which he then carries around in a jar (hence the 2 brains!)

    What then follows is a crazy series of events as he tries to reconcile his love for the brain with his love for Turner's body.

    It sounds weird and it is, but it is all handled superbly by the director who just keeps it on the right side of silly. There are lots of great site jags, splapstick and a witty if somewhat daft script. But I love this film and have watched it countless times.

    Highly recommended if you like early Martin or Kathleen Turner.

      • Mark Jones from East London
      • Posted 02 Mar 2005 10:40

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