The Man with Two Brains
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The Man with Two Brains is a 1983 US 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).
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...
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!
External links
- The Man with Two Brains (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085894/) IMDB entrysv:Dr. Hfuhruhurrs dilemma