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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Another Carl Reiner–Steve Martin collaboration, pairing rapid-fire absurdity with a deadpan, high-concept spoof structure; its noir pastiche keeps the same proudly artificial comic precision.
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Why this pick
Its escalating chain of ludicrous inventions, disasters and non sequiturs matches the gleefully broad, gag-dense comic logic of The Man with Two Brains.
03
Why this pick
A lovingly crafted mad-scientist parody with heightened melodrama, elaborate visual jokes and a sincere comic commitment to every ridiculous turn.
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Why this pick
This has a similarly off-kilter 1980s science-fiction sensibility: mundane professionals encounter increasingly bizarre cosmic nonsense, delivered with dry, anarchic humour.
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Why this pick
Its mock-serious scientific jargon, eccentric experts and cheerfully overcrowded absurdity echo the film’s delight in treating nonsense as urgent high drama.
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01 / THE STORY
Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr (Steve Martin), a widowed brain surgeon, is renowned for inventing a method of "cranial Screw cap" brain surgery. He saves the life of Dolores Benedict (Kathleen Turner), a Gold digging femme fatale who is accidentally run over by Michael when fleeing the scene of her latest husband's fatal coronary (which her malicious mind-games and scheming caused).
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr
Dolores Benedict
Butler
Dr. Pasteur
Fran
Realtor
Dr. Brandon
Dr. Felix Conrad
