During a time when R-rated studio comedies were a relic of the past, two sibling writer-directors, Peter and Bobby Farrelly, challenged what could be shown inside mainstream movie theaters.
In 1998, a film that featured comedic gross-out gags akin to something out of a John Waters film became the third highest-grossing film of the year, collecting over $175 million domestically.
To this day, these outlandish sequences in There’s Something About Mary have lingered in the public moviegoing consciousness, perhaps more than the entirety of the film itself.
People tend to ask “Could this get made today?” when discussing raunchy comedies.
Truthfully, probably not, because few comedies as of late are this smart, curious, and hilarious in their confrontation of troublesome masculine fantasies.
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