Say It Isn't So Movie Review 2001

The Farrelly brothers produced this tale of boy-meets-girl, boy-gets-girl, boy-finds-out-girl-is-his-sister. They should've kept their money and done it themselves, it might've been a better movie. Klein stars as good-guy orphan Gilly, who meets cute with Jo (Graham), an inept hairdresser with the most screwed-up family this side of the Mansons. Her mom (Field) decides Gilly isn't upwardly mobile enough so she makes everyone think the couple are kin. Gilly sets out to set things right amid Farrelly-approved gross-out gags and humiliations galore. First-time helmer Rogers lacks the Farrelly sense of timing and sentiment, which results in most of the jokes falling flat or not developing at all.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 95 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Slapstick Comedy, Road Trip, Brothers & Sisters, Monster Moms, Otherwise Engaged, Mistaken Identity, Incest, Ears!

Screenplay

Peter Gaulke, Gerry Swallow

Cast

Chris Klein, Heather Graham, Orlando Jones, Sally Field, Richard Jenkins, John Rothman, Jack Plotnick, Eddie Cibrian, Mark Pellegrino, Richard Riehle, Brent Briscoe, Henry Cho, Suzanne Somers, Brent Hinkley

Cinematography

Mark Irwin

Director

James B. Rogers

Music

Mason Daring

Other

Jonathan Stein, Darren Brisker, Tom Wolfe, Manish Raval, Larry Madaras, Arlan Jay Vetter, Andrew Deskin, Lisa Jensen, Sidney J. Bartholomew

Producer

Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, Bradley Thomas, Conundrum Entertainment, 20th Century-Fox