The Man with Two Brains

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The Man with Two Brains is a 1983 U.S. film directed by Carl Reiner and starring Steve Martin and Kathleen Turner.

Written by Martin and George Gipe, the film is a broad comedy. Martin plays Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr, a pioneering neurosurgeon with a cruel and unfaithful new wife, Dolores Benedict (Kathleen Turner).

In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted The Man with Two Brains the 35th greatest comedy film of all time.

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Plot

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Hfuhruhurr saves the life of Benedict, who was injured in a car accident. As she recovers Hfuhruhurr falls in love with her and they marry. She is only interested in his wealth. On a honeymoon/business trip to a medical conference in Vienna, a city living in fear of the serial "Elevator Killer", Hfuhruhurr leaves his wife and meets mad scientist Dr. Alfred Necessiter (David Warner) who has created a radical new technique, storing living brains in liquid-filled jars.

Hfuhruhurr discovers he can communicate telepathically with one of the brains, that of Ann Uumellmahaye (voiced by Sissy Spacek). The two immediately fall in love. The confluence of a spate of random murders and the possibility of brain transplantation causes Hfuhruhurr to speculate about how he might improve his lot in life...

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Quotes

Dr. Hfuhruhurr and a little girl discussing Benedict's condition:

Girl: Seems like a postdural hemathoma to me.
Dr. Hfuhruhurr: Shut up! It's not your job to diagnose!
Girl: But I thought...
Dr. Hufuhruhurr: You thought, you thought! Three weeks of nursery school and you think you know it all! It's not "postdural", it's epidural! Ha!

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