ME, MYSELF & IRENE

(Redirected from Me, Myself and Irene)

'''Me, Myself & Irene''' is a 2000 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.
Tony Cox, Traylor Howard, Anna Kournikova and Cam Neely have cameo roles.
'''Tagline:''' From gentle to mental.

Contents

Plot summary

Soundtrack

Box office

Trivia

Cast

External links

Plot summary

The film follows Charlie Baileygates, a Rhode Island State Police trooper who has been taken advantage of by people throughout his life; even after marriage, his wife deserts him for a racist black dwarf limo driver, who is really a college professor (and president of the Boston chapter of Mensa) doing an experiment. The little professor beats Charlie up, eventually steals his wife and leaves Charlie to raise his three highly intelligent but profanity-spewing mixed-race "sons". 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 beautiful girl named Irene to Upstate New York. When some hitmen come after Irene's life, Charlie (and Hank) are called on to save the day.

Soundtrack

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 Ben Folds Five's cover of Barrytown and Reelin' in the Years by Marvelous 3. Other songs include Breakout" by Foo Fighters, "Totalimmortal" by The Offspring, "The World Ain't Slowin' Down" by Ellis Paul, and "Strange Condition" by Pete Yorn amongst others.

Box office

Domestic Gross: $90,570,999
International Gross: $58,700,000
'Total: $149,270,999'

Trivia

★ Due to their work together on the film, Jim Carrey and Renée Zellweger briefly dated.

★ During a scene near the end of the movie, Charlie calls another highway patrolman "Sea Bass." Sea Bass is the name of a man with whom Carrey's character "Lloyd" had a conflict in the Farrelly Brothers' comedy ''Dumb and Dumber'' and is portrayed by Canadian ice hockey player Cam Neely in both films.

★ When Hank gets mad because one of the baseball players throws a cigarette on the ground, the name on their jerseys say "Cerrone." Perhaps named after one of the writers Mike Cerrone.

★ National Alliance for the Mentally Ill and several other mental health advocacy groups have issued a stigma-buster email campaign against this movie due to the portrayal of people with mental illness.

★ A more accurate diagnostic for Charlie's condition would be Dissociative identity disorder, not Schizophrenia.

Cast

★ Jim Carrey – Charlie Baileygates/Hank Evans

★ Renée Zellweger – Irene P. Waters

★ Chris Cooper – Lieutenant Gerke

★ Robert Forster – Colonel Partington

★ Richard Jenkins – Agent Boshane

★ Daniel Greene – Dickie Thurman

★ Anthony Anderson – Jamaal Baileygates

★ Mongo Brownlee – Lee Harvey Baileygates

★ Jerod Mixon – Shonté Jr. Baileygates

★ Tony Cox – Shonté Jackson

★ Traylor Howard – Layla Baileygates

External links

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★ Box office information