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dumb and dumber is a movie about two dumb people one is dumb and the other is dumber
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{{Infobox film
| name = Dumb and Dumber
| image = dumbanddumber.jpg
| image_size = 198px
| alt =
| caption = Theatrical release poster, parodying '']''
| director = ]<br>] {{small|(uncredited)}}
| producer = ]<br>]<br>Steve Stabler
| writer = Peter Farrelly<br>Bennett Yellin<br>Bobby Farrelly<br>Jim Carrey {{small|(uncredited)}}
| starring = ]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]
| music = ]
| cinematography = ]
| editing = ]
| studio = Motion Picture Corporation of America
| distributor = ] (US)<br>]/]/]/] (UK)
| released = {{filmdate|1994|12|16}}
| runtime = 107 minutes<br>113 minutes {{small|(])}}
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget = $17 million<ref> '']''. Retrieved April 4, 2013.</ref>
$26.8 million (adjusted for inflation)<ref name="bom">{{cite web|url=http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/|title=Inflation Calculator - Find US Dollar's Value from 1913-2014|work=US Inflation Calculator|accessdate=5 October 2014}}</ref>
| gross = $247,275,374<ref name="mojo title|dumbanddumber">{{mojo title|dumbanddumber}}</ref>
}}
'''''Dumb and Dumber''''' is a 1994 American ]] film starring ] and ]. It was written and directed by the ], and is their ]. The film tells the story of Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne, two good-natured but dimwitted friends from ] who set out on a cross-country trip to ] to return a briefcase full of money to its owner, only to be pursued by a group of criminals who are after the briefcase.

The film was released on December 16, 1994. Despite mixed reviews from critics, ''Dumb and Dumber'' was a commercial success and developed a ] in the years since its release.<ref name="mojo title|dumbanddumber"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Top 10 Cult Comedies|url=http://listentertainment.blogspot.com/2011/03/top-10-cult-comedies.html|accessdate=16 May 2013}}</ref> The success of ''Dumb and Dumber'' launched the career of the Farrelly brothers and solidified Carrey's.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jim Carrey Biography|url=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/jim-carrey.html|publisher=Bio|accessdate=23 August 2013}}</ref> The film also spawned an ] and a ]. A sequel, titled '']'', is scheduled to be released in November 2014.

==Plot==
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Lloyd Christmas (Carrey) and Harry Dunne (Daniels) are best friends and roommates living in ] who struggle at every aspect of life. Lloyd, a limousine driver, ] with Mary Swanson (Holly), a woman he is driving to the airport. She intentionally leaves her briefcase in the terminal; Lloyd, unaware that it contains ransom money for her kidnapped husband Bobby, retrieves it and tries to return it to her, but her ]-bound plane has already departed.

Fired from his job, Lloyd heads back to his apartment and learns that Harry has also been fired from his job as a dog groomer. Two of Bobby's kidnappers, Joe "Mental" Mentalino (Starr) and J.P. Shay (Duffy), follow Lloyd home from the airport in pursuit of the briefcase. Mistaking the crooks for debt collectors, the duo flee the apartment and return later to find that Mental and Shay have decapitated Harry's parakeet Petey. Upset about their situation, Lloyd suggests they head to Aspen to find Mary and return the briefcase, hoping she can "plug them into the social pipeline." Initially opposed to the idea, Harry soon agrees to Lloyd's proposal and they leave the next day. Mental and Shay find out about their plans and follow them.

Mental and Shay catch up to the duo at a motel that night. Posing as a hitchhiker, Mental is picked up by Harry and Lloyd the next day, while Shay follows them in pursuit. During a lunch stop, the duo accidentally kill Mental with rat poison (which he planned to use on them) after they mistake it for his medication. Nearing ], Lloyd takes a wrong turn and ends up driving all night in the wrong direction. After waking up and realizing Lloyd's mistake, Harry angrily gives up on the journey and attempts to return home, but Lloyd persuades him to continue their trip after trading their van for a moped.

The duo soon arrive in Aspen but are unable to locate Mary. After a short scuffle that night, the briefcase breaks open and they discover the money. Low on cash and needing somewhere to stay, they "borrow" some of the money for a luxurious hotel room, in addition to new clothes and a ]. They soon learn that Mary and her family will be hosting a gala and prepare to attend. At the dinner gala, Harry, attempting to lure Mary over to Lloyd, reluctantly agrees to go skiing with her the next day and lies to Lloyd that he got him a date. The next day, Lloyd finds out Harry lied to him after waiting all day for Mary at a bar.

Lloyd incapacitates Harry with an overdose of laxatives in retaliation, after which Lloyd arrives at Mary's house and informs her he has her briefcase. Lloyd takes her to the hotel room and shows her the briefcase. Lloyd confesses his love to Mary, but is rejected. Nicholas Andre (Rocket), a confidant of the Swansons and the mastermind behind Bobby's kidnapping, arrives at the hotel with Shay and, upon learning most of the ransom money has been spent by Lloyd and Harry and replaced with IOUs, takes Lloyd and Mary hostage, as well as Harry after he returns to the hotel. Before Nicholas can kill them, an ] team raids the hotel room and arrests him and Shay. After the incident, Mary and Bobby are reunited, much to the jealousy of Lloyd.

The film ends with Harry and Lloyd walking home. All of the items they bought with the ransom money were confiscated and their moped has broken down. The two unknowingly decline the chance to be oil boys for a group of ] bikini girls, after which Harry ironically tells Lloyd that they will get their "break" one day. They then play a friendly game of tag, continuing their walk home.

==Cast==
* ] as Lloyd Christmas; a chip-toothed, mischievous loser who has been fired from several jobs.
* ] as Harry Dunne; Lloyd's best friend and roommate. Though still being dull-witted, Harry is slightly more intelligent than Lloyd.
* ] as Mary Swanson, a wealthy heiress whose husband, Bobby, has been kidnapped.
* ] as J.P. Shay, Mental's female accomplice.
* ] as Joe "Mental" Mentalino, a criminal who works as a henchman for Nicholas Andre. He suffers from a ] and regularly takes a medication for it.
* ] as Nicholas Andre; a greedy, wealthy resident of ] and the mastermind behind Bobby's kidnapping.
* ] as Beth Jordan (credited as "Athletic Beauty"), an FBI agent masquerading as a talkative young woman who is moving to ] to get away from her boyfriend.
* ] as Helen Swanson, Mary's stepmother.
* ] as Sea Bass, a trucker who gets into frequent confrontations with Harry and Lloyd on their way to Aspen.
* ] as Barnard
* Brad Lockerman as Bobby Swanson, Mary's husband
* ] as Mrs. Neugeboren
* Hank Brandt as Karl Swanson, Mary's father.
* ] as Pennsylvania State Trooper
* ] as Billy in (Apartment) 4C
* ] as Bartender
* Lisa Stothard as Austrian Bus Stop Beauty
* ] as Elderly Woman
* ] as Anxious Man at Phone

==Production==
], based on the box-office success of '']'' (1994), received a salary of $7 million for this film.<ref name=Cameron-Wilson146>{{Cite book
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|first1=James
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|title=Film Review 1994-5
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] and ] both turned down the role of Lloyd.<ref name="Trivia">{{cite web |title=Trivia for Dumb and Dumber |publisher=IMDb |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109686/trivia |accessdate=2010-11-11}}</ref>

Jim Carrey had the cap removed on a real-life chipped tooth in preparation for his character.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,295961,00.html|title=Incisor Action|work=EW.com|accessdate=5 October 2014}}</ref>

===Location===
Scenes taking place in Aspen were filmed in ] and ]. The ] in ] was transformed into the "Danbury Hotel" for the filming of the movie. The "Danbury Hotel" bar scene and staircase shot were the shots filmed there. The scenes filmed in the snow were shot at ], Colorado.<ref>, Adventure-Journal 10 Mountains Misrepresented in Movies</ref>

Some of the external street scenes were filmed in ].{{Citation needed|date=October 2008}}
The Airport Scene was also filmed at Salt Lake City International Airport.

Some scenes from the beginning of the film were also shot on location in the ] metropolitan area, including shots of the skyline, ], and scenes from the beginning of their road trip were shot in locations in ].{{citation needed|date=April 2012}}

==Soundtrack==
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''Dumb and Dumber: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'' is the original soundtrack to the film, and was released by ] on November 22, 1994.<ref>Playlist as listed on the Compact Disc - retrieved on 8/12/13</ref>
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===Omissions===
The song "]" by ] was not on the soundtrack, although it was played quite prominently in the montage of Lloyd fantasizing about Mary, nor was "]" by ], though it was featured prominently in the make-over montage.

Also missing are "Rollin' Down the Hill" by ], "]" by the Crash Test Dummies, "]" by ], "]" by ] (who also wrote the original soundtrack), "]" by ], and "Make Love Now" by Patrick Wilson. "2 Ft. 0 Butt Crack" by ] was also omitted from the soundtrack and was erroneously credited to the band Circle the Wagon in the film's credits.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShANAX0JzBU&feature=youtu.be&t=6m42s|title=Bruce Greenwood Interviewed on The Hour|work=YouTube|accessdate=5 October 2014}}</ref>

The song "]" by ] was featured in the edited-for-television version of the film.

==Reception==

===Critical response===
''Dumb and Dumber'' currently garners an overall 64% "fresh" approval rating on the Review aggregation website ],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dumb_and_dumber/ |title=Dumb and Dumber |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes |date= |accessdate=2011-08-27}}</ref> with the site's consensus "A relentlessly stupid comedy elevated by its main actors: Jim Carrey goes bonkers and Jeff Daniels carries himself admirably in an against-type performance."
At ], which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from film critics, it has a score of 39 based on reviews from 13 critics, which indicates generally unfavorable reviews.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/dumb-dumber/critic-reviews |title=Critic Reviews for Dumb & Dumber at Metacritic |publisher=Metacritic.com |date= |accessdate=2011-08-27}}</ref>

While ] gave the film only two of four stars (despite praise for Carrey's performance, dubbing him a "true original", and the dead parakeet joke),<ref>{{cite news| url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19941216/REVIEWS/412160301/1023 | work=] | title=Dumb And Dumber}}</ref> most reviews were positive. Stephen Holden of '']'' called Jim Carrey "the new ],"<ref>{{cite news| url=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?_r=1&res=9C04E0D81438F935A25751C1A962958260&oref=slogin | work=] | first=Stephen | last=Holden | title=FILM REVIEW; Traveling on Half a Tank | date=December 16, 1994}} {{Dead link|date=August 2010|bot=RjwilmsiBot}}</ref> and Peter Stack of the '']'' called it "riotous", "rib-splitting", and gave the film praise for being both a crude and slapstick comedy and a "smart comedy" at the same time.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1995/06/23/DD47140.DTL | work=] | title=FILM REVIEW -- 'Dumb and Dumber' a Smart Comedy With Lowbrow Laughs | date=June 23, 1995}}</ref> Carrey was nominated for a ] for "Worst New Star".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000558/1995 |title=Razzie Awards (1995)}}</ref>

The movie has since acquired the status of a ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://listentertainment.blogspot.com/2011/03/top-10-cult-comedies.html|title=Top 10 Cult Comedies|author=Joe Cranney|publisher=|accessdate=5 October 2014}}</ref>

===Awards===
{{Anchor|Awards|Accolades}}
Although the film did not win any major American film awards, it was successful at the ]. Carrey won for Best Comic Performance, Carrey and ] (a couple who would later endure a short-lived marriage) won for Best Kiss, and Carrey and Daniels were nominated for Best On-Screen Duo.

In 2000, readers of '']'' magazine voted ''Dumb and Dumber'' the 5th greatest comedy film of all time.{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}}
The film ranks 445th on '']'''s 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.empireonline.com/500/11.asp |title=Empire Features |publisher=Empireonline.com |date= |accessdate=2011-08-27}}</ref>

===Box office===
The film was successful at the box office, grossing $127,175,374 in the United States, and $247,275,374 worldwide, and topping the holiday season film gross.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE6D6153BF930A35752C0A963958260 | work=The New York Times | title='Dumb and Dumber' Tops Holiday Film Grosses | first=Bernard | last=Weinraub | date=January 3, 1995 | accessdate=May 1, 2010}}</ref>

==Legacy==
{{Anchor|Sequels}}

===Animated series===
{{main|Dumb and Dumber (TV series)}}
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In 1995, a ]-produced animated series aired on ], as part of its Saturday morning cartoon lineup; ] provided the voice of Lloyd, while ] voiced Harry. In the cartoon, Harry and Lloyd have reacquired their van now named "Otto". The cartoon also features a new character, Kitty, a female pet purple ] who appears to be smarter than both men. The animated series was written by Bennett Yellin, co-writer of the film. The show was short lived and was shelved after one season.{{citation needed|date=April 2012}}

===Prequel===
{{main|Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd}}
In 2003, a prequel was released to theaters, entitled '']''. The prequel featured a cast and crew different from the previous film, and the Farrelly brothers had no involvement in the film's production. It was heavily panned by critics, receiving a 10% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and was only a minor box office success, grossing approximately $39.2 million worldwide against a $19 million budget, as opposed to the original film's far greater $247 million worldwide gross against a $17 million budget.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003)|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dumb_and_dumberer_when_harry_met_lloyd/|publisher=Rotten Tomatoes|accessdate=25 October 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd|url=http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=dumbanddumberer.htm|publisher=Box Office Mojo|accessdate=25 October 2013}}</ref>

===Sequel===
{{main|Dumb and Dumber To}}
In October 2011, the Farrelly brothers confirmed that they would make a sequel to ''Dumb and Dumber''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Fleming, Jr.|first=Mike|title=Peter And Bobby Farrelly Plan More ‘Dumb And Dumber’ For Jim Carrey & Jeff Daniels|url=http://www.deadline.com/2011/10/peter-and-bobby-farrelly-plan-more-dumb-and-dumber-for-jim-carrey-and-jeff-daniels/|publisher=Deadline|accessdate=7 November 2013}}</ref> The sequel to the film, titled '']'', began filming in September 2013. ] and ] have returned to lead the film, and ] and ] have also returned to direct the film along with original screenwriter Bennett Yellin, and actors reprising their roles from the first film include ], who played Billy in (Apartment) 4C. ''Dumb and Dumber To'' is scheduled to be released on November 14, 2014.<ref>{{cite news|title='Dumb And Dumber To' Release Date Set For Nov. 14, 2014|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/19/dumb-and-dumber-to-release-date_n_4301763.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592|publisher=Huffington Post|accessdate=19 November 2013|first=Ryan|last=Kristobak|date=19 November 2013}}</ref> This is the first film in the series not to be released by ] Instead, it will be released by ].<ref>{{cite web|last=Fleming, Jr.|first=Mike|title=TOLDJA! ‘Dumb And Dumber To’ Proves No-Brainer For Universal; Studio Locks Deal For Farrellys, Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels Pic|url=http://www.deadline.com/2013/06/toldja-dumb-and-dumber-to-proves-no-brainer-for-universal-studio-locks-deal-for-farrellys-jim-carrey-jeff-daniels/|publisher=Deadline|accessdate=13 January 2014}}</ref> Despite Warner Bros. having no involvement in the film, its ] division, which produced the first film and the prequel, was still given studio credit from Universal.<ref>{{cite web |last=Goldberg |first=Matt |url=http://collider.com/dumb-and-dumber-2-poster/ |title=
New Poster for DUMB AND DUMBER TO; First Trailer Premieres Tonight |publisher=Collider.com |accessdate=2014-06-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/dumb-and-dumber-to-poster2.jpg |title=Dumb and Dumber To Poster |publisher=Collider.com |accessdate=2014-06-17}}</ref>

==See also==
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==References==
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==External links==
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* {{Official website|www.dumbanddumber.com}}
* {{IMDb title|0109686}}
* {{AllRovi movie|133562}}
* {{Rotten Tomatoes|dumb_and_dumber}}
* {{Facebook|DumbandDumberMovie}}

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dumb and dumber is a movie about two dumb people one is dumb and the other is dumber