The Man with Two Brains and The Jerk Ring in the New Year at the Guild Cinema
Thursday-Friday, December 31-January 1
The Man with Two Brains – 4:30 & 8:45 pm
The Jerk – 6:30 pm only
The Man with Two Brains directed by Carl Reiner – 1983 – 90m.
The Jerk directed by Carl Reiner – 1979 – 99m.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!! GOING OUT WITH LAUGHTER, COMING IN WITH GUFFAWS & GIGGLES, COURTESY OF STEVE MARTIN & CARL REINER!
The Man With Two Brains – Steve Martin and Carl Reiner concoct one of Martin’s best comic vehicles with Martin playing the world’s top brain surgeon, Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr — he ought to know, he said so himself! Widowed, world-famous neurosurgeon Michael Hfuhruhurr (Steve Martin) is trapped in a loveless marriage with Dolores Benedict (Kathleen Turner), who is interested only in Hfuhruhurr’s money. On a trip to Vienna to attend a medical conference, Hfuhruhurr falls in love with a bottled brain (voiced by Sissy Spacek), and finds himself in the middle of murders committed by the elevator killer! Also starring a great David Warner!
“This is the most assured and hilarious of the three Martin-Carl Reiner collaborations.” – Richard Schickel, Time Magazine
“Hilarious. Underrated Martin.” – Jeffrey M. Anderson, San Francisco Examiner
“Pure escapist madness. And a helluvalota fun.” – Empire Staff
The Jerk – He was a poor black sharecropper’s who never dreamed he was adopted… That wild and crazy guy, Steve Martin, makes his film-starring debut in this wacky Carl Reiner comedy! Steve portrays Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, whose crazy inventions lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags. Along the way in the grandly lame-brained adventure, he’s smitten with a lady motorcycle racer, survives a series of screwball attacks by a deranged killer and becomes a millionaire by inventing the ‘Opti-grab’ handle for glasses. It’s an outrageous comedy with one laugh after another! Also starring Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams, Mabel King and Richard Ward!
“The Jerk is by turns funny, vulgar and backhandedly clever, never more so than when it aspires to absolute stupidity.” – Janet Maslin, New York Times
“Steve Martin is at the height of his comic powers in this very un-PC comedy.” – Cole Smithey, ColeSmithey.com
“An oddball odyssey so strange, filled with non-sequiturs so funny, and decorated by a romance so sweet, it was an inevitable star-maker.” – Simon Miraudo, Quickflix
The Guild Cinema is located at 3405 Central Avenue NE, in the Nob Hill area.
Website: www.guildcinema.com