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Name: The Man with Two Brains
Released: 1983-6-3
Cast: Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner, Paul Benedict, Richard Brestoff

The Man with Two Brains

R
1h 30m
1983

79%

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Steve Martin and Kathleen Turner star in this comic twist on a classic love triangle ... between a man, his wife, and the disembodied brain he loves. The world's most brilliant neurosurgeon falls deeply in love with a beautiful, unconscious patient and marries her--only to realize her personality is as hideous as her body is beautiful. But then he meets and falls in love with a brain that has everything he desires except a body. Now, how is he going to get rid of his gorgeous but evil wife ...and where is he going to find a body for his new love?

Director:

Carl Reiner

Producer:

David V. Picker, William E. McEuen

Writer:

Carl Reiner, Steve Martin, George Gipe

Cast:

Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner, Paul Benedict, Richard Brestoff, James Cromwell, George Furth, Peter Hobbs

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

79%

Critics Consensus: As spastically uneven as its zany title suggests, The Man with Two Brains isn't peak Steve Martin -- but it's still often close enough to enjoy.

Reviews

New Yorker

Pauline Kael

Martin makes old routines work by letting us know that they’re old and then doing them immaculately.

... this comedy drops the wild and crazy humor of Martin’s standup comedy act in a spoof of old Hollywood science fiction films (from Frankenstein” to Donovan’s Brain), femme fatale melodramas, and impossible love stories.

Steve Martin plays Dr. Hfuhruhurr, Kathleen Turner spoofs her star-making Body Heat role, and the Elevator Killer turns out to be the last person you would suspect. And so it goes in this zany comedy.

Even if this isn't Steve Martin's best role or his best film, it holds up pretty well, offering a glimpse of a comic genius at a wonderfully experimental stage of his career.

Steve Martin made his share of bad movies, but sometimes he could pull one out through sheer force of comedic will.

June 22, 2017

FULL REVIEW