Me, Myself & Irene

Thursday, April 2, 2009 12:36 | Filled in 1. MOVIES - OVERVIEW

Cast: Jim Carrey, Renée Zellweger, Chris Cooper, Richard Jenkins and Robert Forster.

Directors: The Farrelly Brothers.

Screenwriters: The Farrelly Brothers and Mike Cerrone.

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Me, Myself & Irene is the second film the Farrelly Brothers do with Jim Carrey in the starring role, the first one being Dumb and Dumber.

It follows a Rhode Island State Police trooper named Charlie Baileygates, a mild-mannered man who has been taken advantage of by people throughout his entire life.

Even his new bride cheats on him with a black dwarf limo driver, who eventually steals his wife and leaves Charlie to raise their three highly intelligent but profanity-spewing mixed-race sons.

A number of things start going wrong for poor Charlie and after some time his anger pushes him over the edge and he develops a rude and violent split personality named Hank. memyselfandirene1

While Charlie is nice, kind, and usually calm, Hank is is the polar opposite of Charlie, being outrageous, mean, violent and extremely short-tempered to say the least.

Believing that Charlie needs to get out of town after everything he’s been through, his boss assigns him to escort a beautiful woman named Irene Waters (Renée Zellweger) to Massena in New York where she is wanted for questioning about a murder case.

When some hitmen come after Irene’s life, Charlie realises that they are being set up and it is up to him and Hank to save the day – and the lady they have both fallen in love with!