Dumb and Dumber To is an American road buddy comedy film co-written and directed by Bobby and Peter Farrelly. It is the third film in the Dumb and Dumber film series and a direct sequel to their 1994 film Dumb and Dumber. It stars Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels reprising their roles twenty years after the events of the first film, and also features Rob Riggle, Laurie Holden and Kathleen Turner. The film tells the story of Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne (played by Carrey and Daniels, respectively), who set out on a cross-country road trip to find Harry’s daughter who has been adopted.
Twenty years after the events of the first film, Lloyd Christmas has been committed at a psychiatric hospital ever since his doomed romance with Mary Swanson. During a visit, Harry Dunne discovers that Lloyd pranked him into thinking he was mentally disturbed all this time. Lloyd leaves with Harry and they head to their apartment, where Harry reveals one of his kidneys is bad and he needs a donor soon.
They go to Harry’s old home, but Harry cannot get a kidney from his parents since he was adopted. Harry’s dad gives him his mail that has been piling up since he moved out. It includes a postcard from old girlfriend Fraida Felcher dating back to 1991. It says she’s pregnant and needs Harry to call. Fraida admits that she had a daughter named Fanny that she gave up for adoption. She wrote Fanny a letter, only for it to be sent back and noted to never contact her again.
Hoping she can provide a kidney, Lloyd and Harry decide to find Fanny and drive to Maryland, where she now lives. Dr. Bernard Pinchelow and his wife Adele are the adoptive parents of Fanny, who has taken up the new name Penny. She is going to a KEN Convention in El Paso, Texas to give a speech on her father’s life work. Penny is also given a package to be given to one of the convention heads, but the dim Penny ends up forgetting both the package and her phone.
Adele is secretly trying to poison Bernard and Penny out of jealousy, with the help of her secret lover, the family’s housekeeper, Travis Lippincott. Harry and Lloyd arrive to inform the Pinchelows of their situation, at which point Bernard realizes Penny left the package, which he says contains an invention worth a billion dollars.
Adele suggests that Harry and Lloyd deliver the package to Penny. So that he and Adele can get whatever’s inside it the box, Travis goes along, but he becomes annoyed with the duo’s antics, eventually deciding to kill them. Instead, a train collision kills Travis. Adele hears of the death from Travis’s twin brother Captain Lippincott, a former military man who agrees to help her kill Harry and Lloyd.
Dumb and Dumber To
Directed by: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Starring: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Laurie Holden, Kathleen Turner, Brady Bluhm, Angela Kerecz, Lauren Henneberg, Erika Bierman, Rachel Melvin
Screenplay by: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Production Design by: Aaron Osborne
Cinematography by: Matthew F. Leonetti
Film Editing by: Steven Rasch
Costume Design by: Karen Patch
Set Decoration by: Jennifer M. Gentile
Music by: Empire of the Sun
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, partial nudity, language and some drug references.
Studio: New Line Cinema
Release Date: November 14, 2014
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