The Man with Two Brains is a 1983 American comedy film directed by Carl Reiner and starring Steve Martin and Kathleen Turner.
Written by Martin and George Gipe, the film is a broad comedy, with Martin playing Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr, a pioneering neurosurgeon with a cruel and unfaithful new wife, Dolores Benedict (Turner).
In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted The Man with Two Brains the 35th greatest comedy film of all time.
Dr. Michael H...
more
The Man with Two Brains is a 1983 American comedy film directed by Carl Reiner and starring Steve Martin and Kathleen Turner.
Written by Martin and George Gipe, the film is a broad comedy, with Martin playing Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr, a pioneering neurosurgeon with a cruel and unfaithful new wife, Dolores Benedict (Turner).
In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted The Man with Two Brains the 35th greatest comedy film of all time.
Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr (Martin), a widowed brain surgeon renowned for inventing a method of 'cranial screw-top' brain surgery, saves the life of Dolores Benedict (Turner), a gold-digging femme fatale who is accidentally run over by Hfuhruhurr when fleeing the scene of her latest husband's fatal coronary (which her malicious mind-games and scheming caused). As she recovers, Hfuhruhurr falls in love with her and they marry. She torments him by pretending to be too ill to consummate the marriage, driving him into a frenzy of frustration. On a honeymoon...
less