The Man With Two Brains
(1983)
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A wacky brain surgeon, married to a beautiful but coldhearted woman, falls in love with the brain of another lady who has everything he wants... except a body! |
There have been more accomplished Steve Martin films — Roxanne, LA Story — but this remains his finest hour: a dazzlingly inventive comedy that contains more laughs than his last half-dozen movies put together. Martin is Doctor Hfuhruhurr, the brilliant brain surgeon who marries black widow Kathleen Turner but falls for a disembodied brain, voiced by Sissy Spacek. Martin gets to read his favourite poem (“Pointy Birds”), carry out a citizen's divorce and endure the world's toughest drink-driving test; and Turner hilariously sends up the femme fatale persona she established in Body Heat. David Warner co-stars as a fellow mad scientist, and there is also a surprise cameo in the form of the Elevator Killer. Sublime.