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The Man with Two Brains is a 1983 U.S. 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).

In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted The Man with Two Brains the 35th greatest comedy film of all time.

Plot

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!

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