The Man with Two Brains
The Man with Two Brains is a 1983 American science fiction black comedy film directed by Carl Reiner and starring Steve Martin and Kathleen Turner.
Plot
Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr, a widowed brain surgeon, is renowned for inventing a method of "cranial screw-top" brain surgery. He saves the life of Dolores Benedict, a gold-digging femme fatale who is accidentally run over by Michael when fleeing the scene of her latest husband's fatal coronary, caused by her malicious mind-games and scheming. As she recovers, Michael falls in love and they marry. Dolores torments Michael by pretending to be too ill to consummate the marriage, citing a continuing headache. On a honeymoon and business trip to a medical conference in Vienna, a city living in fear of the serial "Elevator Killer", Hfuhruhurr meets mad scientist Dr. Alfred Necessiter, who has created a technique enabling him to store living brains in liquid-filled jars using the Elevator Killer's victims.
More details
| author | Carl Reiner Steve Martin |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Austria |
| director | Carl Reiner |
| editor | Bud Molin |
| events | body swap mad scientist |
| genre | comedy horror science fiction |
| keywords | annoy brain brain surgeon brain surgery business trip drive drunk driving femme fatale field sobriety test flee gather gold digger hard-surface cleaner hit by a car honeymoon married murder scheme screw cap screw-top sobriety test under the bamboo tree vienna widow window cleaner |
| musicBy | Joel Goldsmith |
| producer | David V. Picker William E. McEuen |
| productionCompany | Aspen Film Society |
| publisher | Warner Bros. |
| theme | black comedy comedy horror mad scientist parody |