Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd is a 2003 American buddy comedy film directed by Troy Miller from a screenplay by Miller and Robert Brener. It is the second installment in the Dumb and Dumber franchise and a prequel to the 1994 film Dumb and Dumber. Depicting the original film s characters during their high school years, it stars Derek Richardson and Eric Christian Olsen in the title roles. The film was a moderate box office success, but negatively received by critics, who compared it unfavourably with the original.

Plot

In 1986, Harry Dunne finally gets his chance to go to regular school. At the same time, Lloyd Christmas has been adopted and exchanged several times until he is finally accepted by the school janitor, Ray. Harry bumps into Lloyd on the way to school, in search for a treasure his mother asked him to find, and as if it were destiny, the two instantly became the best of friends. Lloyd introduces Harry to his friend , Turk, the school bully whose main function in life appears to be making Lloyd s life miserable. After putting Lloyd in a trash can, he hoists the two friends up a flagpole.

Meanwhile, the corrupt Principal Collins is searching for a way to get a large amount of money to get a condominium in Waikiki, Hawaii for him and his girlfriend, Ms. Heller, the school s cafeteria lady. Seeing Harry and Lloyd getting hoisted on a flagpole, Principal Collins decides to establish a fake special needs class to swindle $100,000 from a former Special Needs student named Richard Moffit. Obviously, Harry and Lloyd are more than thrilled to help, unaware of the real reason, and thus find themselves signing up people who are special enough for the class. These include a reluctant Turk; a teen named Toby who broke his leg and arm in a skateboarding accident—and whom Lloyd believes is a little crippled boy ; Toby s gorgeous girlfriend, Terri; geeky Lewis, whom Harry and Lloyd believe is a centaur after seeing him half-dressed in his horse mascot uniform; Cindy, also known as Ching-Chong , a Chinese exchange student who later becomes Turk s girlfriend; and Carl, a badly injured football player obsessed with his sport. Ms. Heller becomes the teacher of the fake class and holds it in Ray s tool shed.

Jessica Matthews, a headstrong student and reporter for the school paper, is suspicious of Principal Collins sudden contribution. Jessica invites Harry over to her house for dinner and asks Harry for information. Harry, who thinks that she is flirting with him, turns to Lloyd for courtship tips. A repulsive disaster involving Jessica s bathroom and a melted chocolate bar that looks like feces makes her father freak out, inadvertently directing her attention to Lloyd. Soon, Harry and Lloyd get into a fight over Jessica, without her knowing it, which causes the duo to angrily break off their friendship. Inevitably, the two make amends when Harry and Lloyd realize that they were nothing without each other. They find Principal Collins chest in his office which contains evidence of every scam he and Ms. Heller ever pulled.

The next day, Principal Collins finds his evidence chest missing, and Ms. Heller falsely accuses Jessica of taking it. As a result, Principal Collins prank calls her parents and keeps her at his house overnight in an attempt to interrogate her. Meanwhile, the Special Needs class builds a float of George Washington for the Thanksgiving Parade. However, after Lloyd and Harry discover the evidence in the chest, they change the float to look like Principal Collins instead. After the class discovers his evidence, they agree to use him as the float instead. They also plan on having it pulled by the class s special bus. Before bringing out the float, they call the police. During the parade, the superintendent of the school district has a police detective pose as Richard Moffit, so Principal Collins would take the grant. Eventually, the Special Needs class brings out their float and proves Principal Collins and Ms. Heller as thieves by putting their recordings over loudspeakers, therefore exposing their plot. Before Principal Collins and Ms. Heller escape with the money, they are arrested by the police. Jessica is grateful for Harry and Lloyd and regards them as heroes. However, just like in the original film, the duo s advances to Jessica are in vain, as it turns out that Jessica had a boyfriend. He commends Harry and Lloyd for exposing Collins and Heller s plot and rides off with Jessica.

Harry and Lloyd vow never to fight and risk their friendship over a woman, but as they head home, they are approached by Fraida Felcher and her twin sister, Rita in a red Ferrari 308 GTS, who offer to take them to visit a new girls college. After Harry and Lloyd get into another debate over which girl they want, Lloyd declines the offer to settle the debate, and Fraida and Rita furiously drive off, splattering Harry with mud in the process. Jessica s father accidentally hits Harry with his Mercedes, resulting in Harry getting the windshield and hood covered with mud. Jessica s father recognizes Harry and as he frantically thinks his car is covered in feces, Harry and Lloyd casually walk away.

Cast

• Derek Richardson as Harry Dunne
• Lucas Gregory as young Harry Dunne
• Eric Christian Olsen as Lloyd Christmas
• Colin Ford as young Lloyd Christmas
• Rachel Nichols as Jessica Matthews, Harry and Lloyd s crush.
• Eugene Levy as Principal Collins
• Mimi Rogers as Mrs. Dunne
• Luis Guzman as Ray Christmas, the Janitor and Lloyd s dad.
• Cheri Oteri as Ms. Heller
• Bob Saget as Walter Matthews (Charlie)
• Julia Duffy as Mrs. Matthews
• Elden Henson as Turk “the school bully”
• Shia LaBeouf as Lewis
• William Lee Scott as Carl
• Michelle Krusiec as Cindy Ching-Chong
• Josh Braaten as Toby
• Teal Redmann as Terri
• Lin Shaye as Margie Neugeboren
• Julie Costello as Fraida Felcher
• Shawnie Costello as Rita Felcher
• Timothy Stack as doctor
• Brian Posehn as convenience store clerk Big A

Production

Much of the film was filmed in Atlanta. Many of the school scenes were filmed at Walton High School in Marietta and at the Atlanta International School in Fulton County. The Farrelly brothers, who co-wrote and directed the original Dumb and Dumber, had no involvement in this film whatsoever, nor did Jim Carrey or Jeff Daniels, who played Lloyd and Harry in the original film. Although Peter Farrelly has never seen the prequel, he went on record as saying that he holds no ill-will against the movie and wished the filmmakers well on it.

Following the success of South Park, co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone were originally slated to write the script for the film. However, due to scheduling conflicts, by 2000 they opted not to write the script and returned their salary back to New Line Cinema.

Reception

Box office

In its opening weekend, the film grossed $10.8 million in 2,609 theaters in the United States and Canada. By the end of its run, Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd grossed $26.3 million domestically and $13 million internationally for a worldwide total of $39.3 million, against a $19 million budget.

Critical response

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd was panned by critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 10% rating based on reviews from 119 critics, with an average score of 2.8/10. The site s critical consensus states: This lame prequel induces more groans than laughs. Rent the original instead. Metacritic gives the film a score of 19 out of 100, based on reviews from 28 critics, indicating overwhelming dislike .

Accolades

Award	Date of ceremony	Category	Recipients	Result
Golden Raspberry Awards	February 28, 2004	Worst Remake or Sequel		Nominated
		Worst Screenplay	Robert Brener and Troy Miller	Nominated
		Worst Screen Couple	Eric Christian Olsen and Derek Richardson	Nominated
Stinkers Bad Movie Awards	2004	Worst Picture		Nominated
		Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy		Nominated

Condition

New

Publisher

New Line Home Entertainment

Published Date

2007-09-25

Color

Color

Rating MPA

Pg-13

Recording Length

96 Minutes

Recording Studio

New Line Home Entertainment

Format

DVD

Brand

New Line Home Video

Age Group

Adult

Amazon ASIN

B0000CDRVX

UPC / EAN

794043673221

Model

724387069725

Year

2003

ReleaseDate

2003-06-13

RuntimeMins

85

RuntimeStr

1h 25min

Awards

Awards, 1 win & 7 nominations

Directors

Troy Miller

Writers

Peter Farrelly, Bennett Yellin, Bobby Farrelly

Stars

Derek Richardson, Eric Christian Olsen, Eugene Levy

Produced by

Tally Barr, Cale Boyter, Richard Brener, Robert Brener, Toby Emmerich, Oren Koules, Brad Krevoy, Carl Mazzocone, Troy Miller, Steven Stabler, Charles B. Wessler, Bennett Yellin

Music by

Eban Schletter

Cinematography by

Anthony B. Richmond

Film Editing by

Lawrence Jordan

Casting By

John Papsidera

Production Design by

Paul Huggins

Art Direction by

Andrew Crawford, Ken Taber

Set Decoration by

Frank Galline

Costume Design by

Susanna Puisto

Makeup Department

Cynthia L. Chapman, Cheryl Eckert, Lee Grimes, Bill Johnson, Taylor Knight, Stephanie Ponder, Susan Ransom, Monty Schuth, Jo Jo Stephens, Linda Thompson, Denise Tunnell, Dawn Turner, Tonyia Verna, Jean Webber, Jennifer E Ivey

Production Management

Tracey Baird, Erik Holmberg, Karen Hughes, Rick Reynolds

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Stephen P. Del Prete, Veronica A. Hodge-Hampton, Randol Perelman-Taylor, Eric Tignini

Art Department

Thomas Barnes, Taylor Bennett, James Brothers, Matthew Butler, Dan Butts, John C. Cameron, Jessee J. Clarkson, Christopher Didiot, Andrew Seward Duncan, Laurie Garner, Sammy Ray Hill, Michelle Ihnot, Gideon C. Kennedy, Ellen L. Kerr, Johnny Land, Alisa Lumbreras, Drew Meyers, Chris Mills, David H. Nash, Robert Tate Nichols, Michael Pisani, Lisa Pike Rincon, James Schroeder, Lauren Soldwisch, Lance Ashton Slaton

Sound Department

Laura Harris Atkinson, Bob Beher, Bryan Bowen, Chuck Buch, Kerry Carmean-Williams, Harry Cohen, Ross Michael Deane, Marc Fishman, Nerses Gezalyan, Stacy Hill, Tim Kimmel, Tony Lamberti, Vahe Manoukian, Ryan Murphy, Kelly Oxford, Frederick H. Stahly, David Stanke, Jon Title, Tami Treadwell

Special Effects by

Charles Belardinelli, Thomas L. Bellissimo, Brent Conley, Bruce Larsen, Lee Alan McConnell, James Ochoa, Christy Sumner, Malia Thompson, Shannon J. Thompson

Visual Effects by

Laurie Powers Going, Shaina Holmes, Lori C. Miller, Mark Sawicki, Amani Williams

Stunts

Scott Dale, Annie Ellis, Bob Fisher, David Fletcher, Cal Johnson, Malosi Leonard, Anderson Martin, Kirby Mills, Lonnie R. Smith Jr.

Camera and Electrical Department

Chris Antignane, Tyger Belton, Bill Bennett, Stephen Crowley, Jeff W. Curtis, Michael J. Davis, Danny Eccleston, Dale Fowler, Donny Fowler, Mary Gonzales, Suzanne Hanover, Eric Leftridge, Levi Loy, Johnny Martin, Frank Masi, Tully McCulloch, David McLean, Greg Morse, Karen Parsons, Stoke T. Renigade Patterson, George Richmond, Jonathan Chunky Richmond, Mike Robertson, Jacob Ross, Chad Schroeder, Thom Shepard, Clyde W. Smith, Steve Sudge, Randy Tharpe, Troy Toebben, Mike Torino, Mike Tyson, Ron Veto, Steve Zigler

Casting Department

Janella Bersabal, Chad Darnell, Patrick Ingram, Lori Maloney, Caitlin McKenna, Wendy O Brien

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Laura Guzik, Patty Malkin, Alison McCosh, Gertrude Moore, Heather Wind, Joulles Wright, Amanda Zenil, Daniela Kurrle

Editorial Department

Robert Brakey, Rick Downey, Lauren Flasher, Benjamin Fretheim, Jennifer Hatton, Dawn Michelle King, Dennis McNeill, Stephen Shapiro, Kristen Young

Location Management

Becky Brake, Laura Bryant, Angela Carroll, Alfeo Dixon, Joe Guarneri, Elizabeth Hamilton, Rebecca Ollinger, Mike Riley, J. Bradley Smith, Cory Talanca

Music Department

Tom Brown, Michael Farrow, Jim Hoffman, Tom Kramer, London Symphony Orchestra, Guy Maeda, Miriam Mayer, Jonathan McHugh, Stephanie Murray, Maria Newman, Marni Sanders, Erin Scully, Steven L. Smith, Matthew Rush Sullivan, Brad Warnaar, Paul Wertheimer, Gerald White, The Hollywood Studio Symphony

Script and Continuity Department

Gail Hunter, Tom Gammill, Will Gluck, Max Pross

Transportation Department

Chuck Graydon, Kevin Hudis, Rick Kamen, Norman P. Martin, Janet Perrotti, Hank Van Apeldoorn, Oranz Walker, David Carlton White

Additional Crew

Tea Aaron, Noor Ahmed, Cassandra Barbour, Michael Beaudin, Sarah Blackman, Edwanna Blanding, Angi Bones, Chris Browne, Tony Cypres, Brad Davis, Derron Delaney, Mark A. Echevarria, Aaron C. Fitzgerald, Kelli Franklin, Emily Glatter, Steven Gorel, Shawn M. Gray, Stephen Hall, Jalyn Henton, Elizabeth Kealoha, Greg Kupiec, Paul Lowe, Matt Mangum, Andrew Matthews, Raegan Matthews, Stewart McAlpine, Kevin Muir, Winifred Murungi, Kyle O Brien, Karri O Reilly, Senia Phillips, John M. Pisani, Kate Pulley, John Radcliff, Jeremy Roberts, Laura Sevier, Eric Smith, Rozanne Stark, Kelly Tippens, Katie Willard Troebs, Angelo Vacco, Jessica S. Williams, Lamese Williams, Andrew J. Wilson, Ronald C. Briggs Jr., Larry Gilbert, Jyn Hall, Tina Taylor

Thanks

Sheldon Kahn

Genres

Comedy

Companies

New Line Cinema, Burg/Koules Productions, Avery Pix

Countries

USA

Languages

English

ContentRating

PG-13

ImDbRating

3.4

ImDb Rating Votes

40022

Metacritic Rating

19

Short Description

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd is a 2003 American buddy comedy film directed by Troy Miller from a screenplay by Miller and Robert Brener. It is the second installment in the Dumb and Dumber franchise and a prequel to the 1994 film Dumb and Dumber. Depicting the original film s characters during their high school years, it stars Derek Richardson and Eric Christian Olsen in the title roles. The film was a moderate box office success, but negatively received by critics, who compared it unfavourably with the original.

Box Office Budget

$19,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office Opening Weekend USA

$11,100,000

Box Office Gross USA

$26,276,465

Box Office Cumulative Worldwide Gross

$39,267,515

Keywords

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