Me, Myself & Irene

Me, Myself & Irene
Me, Myself & Irene

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Peter Farrelly
Bobby Farrelly
Produced by Peter Farrelly
Bobby Farrelly
Charles B. Wessler
Bradley Thomas
Written by Peter Farrelly
Bobby Farrelly
Mike Cerrone
Narrated by Rex Allen, Jr.
Starring Jim Carrey
Renée Zellweger
Chris Cooper
Robert Forster
Richard Jenkins
Music by Pete Yorn
Lee Scott
Cinematography Mark Irwin
Editing by Christopher Greenbury
Studio Conundrum Entertainment
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date(s) June 23, 2000 (2000-06-23)
Running time 116 minutes
Country United States
Language English
German
Budget $51 million
Box office $149,270,999

Me, Myself & Irene is a 2000 American comedy film directed by the Farrelly Brothers, and starring Jim Carrey and Renée Zellweger. Chris Cooper, Robert Forster, Richard Jenkins, Daniel Greene, Anthony Anderson, Jerod Mixon, and Mongo Brownlee co-star. The film is about a Rhode Island state trooper named Charlie who, after years of continuously suppressing his rage and feelings, suffers a psychotic breakdown which results in a second personality, Hank.


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Plot

Charlie Baileygates (Jim Carrey), is a 18 year veteran of the Rhode Island State Police trooper who has been taken advantage of by people throughout most of his life. Immediately after his marriage, his wife, Layla (Traylor Howard), cheats on him with a limosuine driver, Shonté (Tony Cox), who, like Layla, is a member of Mensa. Although Charlie's friends try informing him of his wife's infidelity, he still denies the possibility. Layla eventually runs off with Shonté; leaving Charlie to raise the three black sons that are the products of Layla's adulterous affair with the limo driver. The affair leaves Charlie emotionally damaged to such the extent that he lets himself be abused by others. Despite him being a police officer, the citizens reject his authority with open scorn.

After some time of continuous abuse by the people around him, his anger builds up, and Charlie develops a rude and violent split personality named Hank, caused by "advanced delusionary schizophrenia with involuntary narcissistic rage." The psychiatrist prescribes him a medicine to keep his double personality suppressed. Believing that Charlie needs a vacation, the force tells him to escort a woman named Irene Waters (Renée Zellweger) to Massena, New York because it was reported that she committed a hit and run that was actually committed by Dickie, Irene's partner. When some hit men arrive with a contract on Irene's life, Charlie agrees to help her escape, while two United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) agents are killed by the hit men. Charlie leaves his medicine behind, causing his alter ego, Hank, to surface any time he wants.

The FBI suspects that Charlie is responsible for the assassination of the two EPA agents. While pretending to work with the police to find their father, Charlie's sons throw the police off their father's trail, they proceed to steal a police helicopter to get to Charlie before the police. Meanwhile, Dickie orders some corrupt agents to kill both Charlie and Irene. After they fail, Dickie decides to settle the matter himself. During the confrontation with Dickie, Charlie manages to eliminate the alternate personality, Hank. Eventually, he manages to stop Dickie, and put an end to the corruption. With Hank gone, and all the members of the conspiracy behind bars, the film ends with Charlie and Irene together.

After the credits roll, there is an additional scene in which Charlie, Irene, the boys and waiter Whitey try to find Charlie's thumb which was blasted into a river earlier, but to no avail.

Cast

Music

The film's original score was written by Pete Yorn, while the movie's soundtrack contains several covers of Steely Dan songs performed by other bands. Examples are Smash Mouth's cover of "Do It Again", Ben Folds Five's cover of "Barrytown", and Marvelous 3's cover of "Reelin' in the Years". Other songs include "Breakout" by Foo Fighters, "Totalimmortal", originally by AFI but covered by The Offspring, "The World Ain't Slowin' Down" by Ellis Paul, and "Strange Condition" by Pete Yorn.

  1. "Breakout" - Foo Fighters
  2. "Do It Again"+ - Smash Mouth
  3. "Deep Inside of You" - Third Eye Blind
  4. "Totalimmortal" - The Offspring
  5. "The World Ain't Slowin' Down" - Ellis Paul
  6. "Any Major Dude Will Tell You"+ - Wilco
  7. "Only A Fool Would Say That"+ - Ivy
  8. "Can't Find The Time To Tell You" - Hootie & The Blowfish
  9. "Bodhisattva"+ - Brian Setzer Orchestra
  10. "Bad Sneakers"+ - The Push Stars
  11. "Reelin' In The Years"+ - Marvelous 3
  12. "Strange Condition" - Pete Yorn
  13. "Barrytown"+ - Ben Folds Five
  14. "Razor Boy"+ - Billy Goodrum
  15. "Where He Can Hide" - Tom Wolfe

+Steely Dan cover

"Motherfucker" by The Dwarves, "Fire Like This" by Hardknox, "The Perpetrator" by Hipster Daddy-O and the Handgrenades, and "Hem of Your Garment" by Cake were included in the movie but not on the soundtrack. Pete Yorn's, Just Another can also be heard it the background, during the scene where they discuss Hank's Idea. Other songs, that appeared in the film are not included on the soundtrack album.

Reception

Box office

The film had the biggest opening on the weekend of June 23, 2000 making US$24.2 million in its opening weekend. The film earned $90,570,999 in the United States, and a further $58,700,000 internationally for a worldwide total of $149,270,999.

Critical response

The film received generally mixed reviews. Review website Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a score of 48%, based on 96 reviews, and an average rating of 5.3/10, with the consensus that "The Farrellys manage to produce some laughs with Irene, but the jokes have become tired." [1]

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