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| Product Details |
| Charlie Mackenzie (Mike Myers) is a love-shy "poet" living in San Francisco, who frequents neighborhood coffee houses reciting his tortured odes to unrequited love. Burned by a string of failed relationships, Mackenzie's fear of commitment has intensified into outrageous extremes of paranoia. When he finds himself falling for the sweet-faced butcher (Nancy Travis) at his local meat shop, he sees it as a final chance for love to overcome his painful cynicism. Feeling he has squelched his nagging fears, Mackenzie marries the woman. But his anxiety quickly manifests itself in the conviction that his betrothed is actually an infamous axe murderer whose antics are described in juicy detail in each week's issue of the Weekly World News. Myers also plays his own father, Stuart Mackenzie, a football-loving, Rod Stewart-singing Scotsman who repeatedly refers to Charlie's over-cranial younger brother William as "Head." |
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Key Information
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| Genre: |
Comedies |
| Directors: |
Thomas Schlamme |
| Actors: |
Amanda Plummer · Anthony LaPaglia · Brenda Fricker · Debi Mazar · Nancy Travis · Phil Hartman · Steven Wright |
| Stars: |
Mike Myers |
| UPC: |
043396059504, 043396257344, 043396524231, 043396524293 |
| Running Time: |
1hr 33min |
| Available Formats: |
DVD: Deluxe Edition, DVD: Standard and Letterboxed; Multiple Languages, VHS, VHS: Closed Captioned |
| MPAA Rating: |
PG-13 (MPAA) |
| Subgenre: |
Recommended |
| Release Date: |
1993 |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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VHS Editions
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- VHS: Closed Captioned
- 1hr 33min
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- February 09, 1994
- PG-13 (MPAA)
- 043396524231
- Sound Features: HiFi, Surround, Digital, Stereo
, - VHS
- 1hr 33min
- Movies Unlimited
- February 09, 1994
- PG-13 (MPAA)
, - VHS
- 1hr 33min
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- May 01, 2001
- PG-13 (MPAA)
- 043396059504
- Sound Features: Surround, Stereo
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Professional Reviews
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(07/30/1993, p.39, Roger Ebert): "...Myers proves that his success in WAYNE'S WORLD was not a fluke. He is very capable and funny here...", (07/30/1993, p.C3, Janet Maslin): "...A welcome surprise....Includes a funny assortment of cameo performers...", (08/02/1993, Leonard Klady): "...It's a delightful and unexpected surprise....The comedy is a hip slice of life about the dilemma of martial commitment with just a pinch of Hitchcock providing the cutting edge..." |
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Quotes from the Movie
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"My name is John Johnson, but everyone here calls me Vicki." --Alcatraz Park Ranger (Phil Hartman)
"They make me horny/Saturday morny/Girls of cartoon/Led me to ruin." -- Charlie Mackenzie (Mike Myers) reciting one of his poems, which confronts the influence that Betty Rubble and Josie and the Pussycats have had on his life.
"Kiss your mother, or I'll tear your lungs out." -- Stuart Mackenzie (Mike Myers)
"Head! Move that melon of yours and take your mother the paper if you can, hauling that gargantuan cranium about!"-- Stuart Mackenzie (Myers) |
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