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The Man with Two Brains is a 1983 U.S. film directed by Carl Reiner and starring Steve Martin and Kathleen Turner.
Written by Martin and George Gipe, the film is a broad comedy. Martin plays Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr, a pioneering neurosurgeon with a cruel and unfaithful new wife, Dolores Benedict (Kathleen Turner).
In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted The Man with Two Brains the 35th greatest comedy film of all time.
Plot
Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr (Martin), a well-renowned brain surgeon who has invented a method of 'screw-top' brain surgery saves the life of Benedict (Turner), a gold-digging femme fatale who was accidentally run over by Hfuhruhurr when fleeing the scene of her latest husband's death (which her malicious mind-games and scheming caused). As she recovers Hfuhruhurr falls in love with her and they marry. She is only interested in his wealth. On a honeymoon/business trip to a medical conference in Vienna, a city living in fear of the serial "Elevator Killer", Hfuhruhurr leaves his wife and meets mad scientist Dr. Alfred Necessiter (David Warner) who has created a radical new technique, storing living brains in liquid-filled jars.
Hfuhruhurr discovers he can communicate telepathically with one of the brains, that of Ann Uumellmahaye (voiced by Sissy Spacek). The two immediately fall in love. The confluence of a spate of random murders and the possibility of brain transplantation causes Hfuhruhurr to speculate about how he might improve his lot in life...
Quotes
Dr. Hfuhruhurr and a little girl discussing Benedict's condition:
- Girl: Sounds like a subdural hemathoma to me.
- Dr. Hfuhruhurr: Oh it does, does it?! Well, it's not your job to diagnose!
- Girl: But I thought...
- Dr. Hufuhruhurr: You thought, you thought, just go! Three weeks of nursery school and you think you know it all! Well, you're still wet behind the ears! It's not "subdural hemathoma", it's epidural! Ha! Goddamn that makes me mad!
- Dr. Necessiter: ''As you know, my experiments have progressed to the point where I can transfer the contents of a human brain into a gorilla."
- Dr. Hfuhruhurr: I can't fuck a gorilla.
- Officer: You are under arrest for murder!
- Dr. Hfuhruhurr: We are not killing! We are ressurecting! Moving life from one body to another!
- Officer: You are playing God?
- Dr. Hfuhruhurr: SOMEBODY has to!
External links
1983 films | Comedy science fiction films | Warner Bros. films
Der Mann mit den zwei Gehirnen | Человек с двумя мозгами (фильм) | Dr. Hfuhruhurrs dilemma
"The Man with Two Brains"