: Stuck on You
Director: The Farrelly Brothers
The trailers made this look awful, a sick, twisted joke about conjoined twins. But it’s suprisingly not. It’s about two brothers who share a liver and can’t be separated. They do everything together and are happy. But one’s got a dream of becoming an actor, so they move to Hollywood. There they run into Cher, who’s trying to get out a TV show contract, so she hires them to be in her show, thinking it’s so absurd the network will cancel the contract. Instead, they go ahead with the show and it turns out to be a huge hit. The conjoined twins are big stars, and that’s when they start to go different directions, and realize it’s time to move apart. They have the operation and are separated, and only later do they realize how much they miss each other and can’t live apart. It’s a suprisingly sweet drama from the usually crude Farrelly Brothers. Unfortunately, it’s not a laugh-a-minute as some of their other movies. Most of the jokes are either subtle or of the smile, not laugh-out-loud variety. Still, I liked it. It’s a bit long, as some of the story takes too long to tell, and a few of the jokes are too obvious, but in general it’s a decent tale of two brothers who figure out their lives.
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