Example sentences for: farrelly

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  • Evenly divided negative and positive reports for this unexpectedly sincere coming-of-age story from the masters of gross-out comedy, the Farrelly brothers ( There's Something About Mary ). Directed by Michael Corrente and based on a novel by Peter Farrelly, it's a standard fish-out-of-water tale (poor kid from small-town Rhode Island gets sent to a snobby boarding school).

  • Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin star in a remake of Neil Simon's 1970 film that's "so feeble and unfocussed as to make the Farrelly brothers of There's Something About Mary appear to have suckled at the bosom of Aristophanes" (Lawrence Van Gelder, the New York Times ). All critics agree; few put it so well.

  • The movie might have been unbearably depressing if Old Man Dunphy had been the thug of Farrelly's novel.

  • That description is more bitter than anything in the film, but it does suggest how Farrelly kept life among the urban unwashed from crushing his soul: He cultivated a caustic sense of humor.

  • (Click here to read an interview with the Farrelly brothers, and to read David Edelstein's rave in Slate .)


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