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Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd Dumb And Dumberer film poster Directed by Troy Miller Produced by Oren Koules, Brad Krevoy, Steven Stabler, Troy Miller Written by Peter Farrelly, Bennett Yellin, Bobby Farrelly, Troy Miller Starring Derek Richardson, Eric Christian Olsen, Eugene Levy Distributed by Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd is a comedy film that is the prequel to 1994's hit comedy Dumb and Dumber, and stars Eric Christian Olsen, Derek Richardson, Rachel Nichols, Bob Saget, Luis Guzmán, Eugene Levy and Mimi Rogers. The film was a critical and box office flop, taking in just under $40 million at the worldwide box office.[1] Contents [hide] 1 Overview 2 Plot 3 Production 4 Cast 5 Critical reaction 6 References 7 External links // Overview Dumb And Dumberer is a teen comedy that looks at the time when the two main characters, Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne, first met in high school in 1986. The film is laden with numerous innuendos, crude humor and songs from the period's mainstream, but mostly those from more recent times.[citation needed] Plot Harry Dunne, a guy home-schooled all his life, finally gets his chance to go to regular school. At the same time, another guy named Lloyd Christmas (who has been adopted and exchanged several times until he was accepted by Ray the school janitor, as shown in the deleted scenes) becomes over-eager, and gets out of school to get into school. Harry bumps into Lloyd introduces Harry to his 'friend', Turk, the school bully whose main function in life appears to be making Lloyd's life hell (despite the latter enjoying it). After putting Lloyd in a dustbin, he hoists the two friends up a flagpole. Meanwhile, corrupt Principal Collins is searching for a way to get a large amount of money to get a condo in Waikiki. Seeing two guys getting hoisted on a flagpole makes him establish a 'special needs' class to swindle $100,000 from the local community. Obviously, Lloyd and Harry are more than thrilled to help, and thus find themselves signing up people who are 'different' for the class. These include a reluctant Turk, a popular kid named Toby who broke his leg in a skateboarding accident (and whom Lloyd believes is a 'little crippled boy'), geeky Lewis (whom Harry and Lloyd believe is a centaur after seeing him half-dressed in his horse mascot costume), Ching-Chong (an Asian exchange student who later becomes Turk's girlfriend), Carl (a badly injured football player obsessed with his sport), and Toby's gorgeous girlfriend Terri. Jessica, a headstrong student, is suspicious of Collins' sudden contribution. She asks Harry for information. Harry, who thinks that she is flirting with him, turns to | ||||
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