Example sentences for: farrelly

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  • The Farrelly brothers' latest slapstick is said to hark back to the screwball romances of the 1940s: The Dumb & Dumber directors temper their repulsive humor--which includes gags about a mangled penis and the mentally retarded--with a touching love story.

  • A "rancid little nothing of a movie" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ) that's a grim, gross wannabe Farrelly brothers flick.

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

  • The movie is based on a terse, bleakly funny 1988 novel by Peter Farrelly, who, with his brother Bobby, wrote and directed Dumb and Dumber (1994) and There's Something About Mary (1998).

  • 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.


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