By EWAN McDONALD
(Herald rating: * * )
The first thing you need to know is that this movie was produced by the Farrelly Brothers of There's Something About Mary and Kingpin fame or notoriety, depending on your appreciation of comedy that depends on physical handicaps, sexual miscalculations, intestinal difficulties and weird
things done to animals to get a laugh.
Heather Graham and Chris Klein play Jo and Gilly, a hairdresser and a dogcatcher who fall in love and then discover they are brother and sister. Jo runs out of town and hitches up with a jerk of a millionaire; Gilly stays behind, the joke of the town for sleeping with his sister, until he finds out they're not related at all.
Jo's family wants her to marry the rich guy, so they're determined to keep Gilly out of the picture (which might not have been an altogether bad idea). The laughs come from Jo's parents Valdine and Walter Wingfield (Sally Field and Richard Jenkins).
Valdine is a money-grubbing conwoman who doesn't want Gilly to know that she is not his mother so Jo will marry the millionaire; Walter, who is terminally ill and talks through an electronic voicebox, bears a grudge against everyone.
Running time: 93 mins
Rental: Out now
