CREDITS THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY, 1998 dir: Bobby Farrelly; Peter Farrelly Cameron Diaz Ben Stiller Matt Dillon Chris Elliott

“Tell me you spank the monkey before any big date. Oh my God he doesn't flog the dolphin before a big date. Are you crazy? That's like going out there with a loaded gun! ”

All the Farrellys' trademark grossness is here, but blended with bouncy good humour, giving the brothers their biggest commercial success to date.

Part of the movie was shot in the Farrelly's native Rhode Island, but it's mostly set against the candy-coloured backdrop of Miami Beach.

The ‘high school’, where nerdy Ted Stroehmann (Ben Stiller) doesn’t quite make it to the prom with Mary (Cameron Diaz), is Plantation City Hall, Plantation, down on Hwy1 in the Florida Keys.

Most of the film is shot around Miami. Pat Healy (Matt Dillon) meets Sully (Jeffrey Tambor) at the Big Pink Restaurant, 157 Collins Avenue, south of South Beach’s Art Deco district.

There's Something About Mary: Mary takes Pat to the architecture exhibition: Miami Dade Cultural Center

Mary takes faker Pat Healy to an architecture exhibition at the Center for the Fine Arts, in the Miami Dade Cultural Center, 101 West Flagler Street, downtown.

There's Something About Mary: Ted meets Mary at her office: Brickell Park

Mary’s office, where Ted meets up with her thirteen years after his little accident, is on the downtown Miami waterfront at Brickell Park, overlooking the Brickell Key Causeway.

Ted’s Miami hotel, where he unwittingly provides Mary with nature's own hair gel after ‘cleaning the pipes’, is the Cardozo Hotel, 1300 Ocean Drive at 14th Street. This art deco gem can also be seen in Frank Capra's 1959 A Hole in the Head.

The waterside bar, where Healy reports back to Ted, though, can be found in Providence, Rhode island. It’s The Hot Club, 575 South Water Street off Bridge Street.

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