Stuck on You (2003)

User Rating:

6.0/10   

Directors:

Bobby Farrelly
Peter Farrelly

Writers (WGA):

Charles B. Wessler (story) &
Bennett Yellin (story) ...

Release Date:

12 December 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Tagline:

Brothers stick together

Plot:

Conjoined twins from Martha's Vineyard move to Los Angeles so that one of them can pursue an acting career.

Plot Keywords:

Hollywood | Conjoined Twins | Internet | Siamese Twins | Love

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Matt Damon	...	Bob Tenor
Greg Kinnear	...	Walt Tenor
Eva Mendes	...	April Mercedes
Wen Yann Shih	...	May Fong
Pat Crawford Brown	...	Mimmy
Ray 'Rocket' Valliere	...	Rocket
Tommy Songin	...	Tommy
Terence Bernie Hines	...	Moe Neary
Cher	...	Cher / Honey
Jackie Flynn	...	Howard
Seymour Cassel	...	Morty O'Reilly
Griffin Dunne	...	Himself
Bridget Tobin	...	Vineyard Cutie
Danny Murphy	...	Dicky
Malcolm G. Chace Jr.	...	Vineyard Buddie

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, and some language.

Runtime:

118 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:L | South Korea:12 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Brazil:12 | Finland:K-11 | Germany:6 | Hong Kong:IIA | New Zealand:M | Norway:7 | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:NC-16 | Singapore:PG (cut) | Spain:T | Sweden:Btl | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12A | USA:PG-13 (certificate #40193)

Filming Locations:

Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

Bobby Farrelly is one of the brothers in goalie pads during the hockey scene.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: During the opening credits when Walt and Bob get out of bed and their feet hit the floor, if you look under the bed, you can see a face of what is probably a crew member.

Quotes:

Walt: She's got mace.

Movie Connections:

References Trainspotting (1996)

Soundtrack:

California Waiting

A wonderful film -- what cinema is made for. But badly mis-marketed.

I went into the cinema with friends and said: "It's a Farrelly Brothers film; you can guess the level of humour." There's Something About Mary I love, but let's face it -- the humour is quite crass, even if the movie does have some heart. So I expected another movie with jokes in bad taste, and lots of humour at the expense of conjoined twins. At least this is how the film has marketed it. However, it couldn't be further from the truth. What has been marketed is quite different to what the film is about.

Whilst the film does have humour -- some movements hilariously funny -- this film is at heart a light drama. And this is by certainly no means a bad thing. When I expected low-IQ humour, what I got was just a really engrossing tale of two brothers who just happen to be conjoined. The chemistry between Damon and Kinnear is just perfect, and the relationship between the brothers (no doubt written from experience by the Farrelly Brothers) was wonderful.

Fox's marketing treatment of the film is appalling. In the trailer, Matt Damon's character says: "We're not Siamese, we're American," and the trailer plays it like he is stupid. Whereas in fact, when watching the film, the context is very different -- he's reacting with indignation, and in defence of their conjoined nature. This is indicative of the entire film. Never is their conjoined-nature used for humour in a bad way.

Throw away what you've seen in the trailers, or what you think the film is about. Go and see this movie that has its heart so very much in the right place -- a great antidote to so many Hollywood films that have the soul of a stone. I don't normally get sentimental with films. I'm the type of viewer that laughs when Jack dies at the end of Titanic. But I went away from Stuck On You knowing I'd seen a very special film indeed. Highly recommended.