Main Cast: Jim Carrey, Renée Zellweger, Chris Cooper, Robert Forster, Richard Jenkins, Rob Moran
Release Year: 2000
Country: US
Run Time: 117 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
Six years after Dumb and Dumber, Jim Carrey reunited with Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly for this anarchic comedy with a hint of romance. Charlie (Carrey) is a good-natured Rhode Island state trooper who likes helping people. But years of internalizing his frustrations about his work and his family have caused Charlie to develop an alter ego: Hank, an abusive, violent, sexually compulsive police officer. Charlie can keep Hank at bay with medication, but just barely. When Irene (Renee Zellweger) finds herself in legal trouble through a series of misunderstandings involving her ex-boyfriend, Charlie must escort her on a long drive to New York for questioning. After Charlie loses his medication, he and Hank wind up vying for her affections: Charlie wants Irene to marry him, while Hank has more brutal intentions. Me, Myself, and Irene also features Chris Cooper, Robert Forster, and Jessica Harper, as well as Anthony Anderson, Mongo Brownlee, and Jerod Mixon as Charlie's rotund, African-American sons. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Traylor Howard - Layla; Daniel Greene - Dickie Thurman; Zen Gesner - Agent Peterson; Tony Cox - Limo Driver; Anthony Anderson - Jamaal; Mongo Brownlee - Lee Harvey; Jerod Mixon - Shonte Jr; Mike Cerrone - Officer Stubie; John-Eliot Jordan - Pizza Boy; Michael Bowman - Whitey; Jessica Harper; Shannon Whirry - Beautiful Mom; Danny Murphy - Steve Parfitt, FBI
Credit
Arlan Jay Vetter - Art Director, Patrick Healy - Associate Producer, Linda Fields-Hill - Associate Producer, Kristofer W. Meyer - Associate Producer, Rick Montgomery - Casting, Marc S. Fischer - Co-producer, Mark Charpentier - Co-producer, James B. Rogers - Co-producer, Pamela Withers Chilton - Costume Designer, James B. Rogers - First Assistant Director, Bobby Farrelly - Director, Peter Farrelly - Director, Josh Klausner - Second Unit Director, Christopher Greenbury - Editor, Tom Schulman - Executive Producer, Charles B. Wessler - Executive Producer, Pete Yorn - Composer (Music Score), Lee Scott - Composer (Music Score), Manish Raval - Musical Direction/Supervision, Tom Wolfe - Musical Direction/Supervision, Alterian Studios - Makeup Special Effects, Sidney Bartholomew Jr. - Production Designer, Mark Irwin - Cinematographer, Bobby Farrelly - Producer, Peter Farrelly - Producer, Bradley Thomas - Producer, Jonathan "Earl" Stein - Sound/Sound Designer, Rick Barker - Stunts Coordinator, Bobby Farrelly - Screenwriter, Peter Farrelly - Screenwriter, Mike Cerrone - Screenwriter, Robert D. Tomer - Second Unit Director Of Photography, Alterian Studios - Animatronic Effects, Richard K. Wright - Properties Master, John Joseph Thomas - Supervising Sound Editor, Vanessa Ashley Lapato - Supervising Sound Editor, Hammerhead Productions - Visual Effects, Scott Jacobson - Set Decorator
The film follows Charlie Baileygates, a Rhode Island State Policetrooper who has been taken advantage of by people throughout most of his life; even after marriage, his wife, Layla, cheats on him with a black dwarf limo driver who, like Layla, is a member of Mensa. Layla eventually runs off with the limo driver and leaves Charlie to raise three highly intelligent but profanity-spewing biracial sons, the products of Layla's adulterous affair with the limo driver. The relationship leaves Charlie unable to handle confontation, letting himself be abused by others. After some time, his anger builds up and Charlie develops a rude and violent split personality named Hank. Believing that Charlie needs a vacation, the force tells him to escort a attractive woman named Irene Waters to Massena, New York. When some hitmen arrive with a contract on Irene's life, Charlie (and Hank) are called on to save her.
