Product Details

• Actors: Chris Klein, Heather Graham, Orlando Jones, Sally Field, Richard Jenkins
• Directors: James B. Rogers
• Writers: Gerry Swallow, Peter Gaulke
• Producers: Bobby Farrelly, Bradley Thomas, Clem Franek, Garrett Grant, Marc S. Fischer
• Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: August 21, 2001
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005LIR8
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #23,653 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Say It Isn't So is touted as being from the Farelly brothers, who wrote and directed the movies Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin, and There's Something About Mary. And though they didn't write or direct this movie, it certainly has the same elements: charming lead actors (in this case, Heather Graham from Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Chris Klein from Election and American Pie) put through all sorts of comic grotesqueries, ranging from having an ear cut off to getting a hand stuck up a cow's rectum. Orphaned dogcatcher Gilly (Klein) and incompetent hairdresser Jo (Graham) fall in love, only to discover that Gilly's long-lost mother is Jo's own white trash momma (played with gusto by Sally Field). Unfortunately, they'd already slept together, so Jo flees in shame to go back to her ex-boyfriend in Beaver, Oregon. But when Jo's real brother shows up, Gilly sets out to win Jo back--only her mom wants her to marry the ex and tells the Beaver police that Gilly is a sexual predator. Say It Isn't So doesn't have the crude wit of There's Something About Mary, but there are several laugh-out-loud moments, and both Graham and Klein are sweet and engaging. Orlando Jones has a zestful turn as a legless seaplane pilot. --Bret Fetzer

Product Description
Boy meets girl. Boy loves girl. Boy discovers girl may be his sister. (Boy, this could be trouble.) To make matters worse, by the time he discovers "it isn't so," he has precious little time to stop the woman of his dreams from marrying another man. It's shameless romantic comedy at its finest produced by the twisted minds behind There's Something About Mary and Me Myself & Irene!

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars sick but funny, September 22, 2007

By	Bridget Sage "Love2review" (Albany,NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Say It Isn't So (Video On Demand)

Say it isn't so was a decent movie. I had seen it a few years ago and decided that I should rent it again for a laugh at 3am because I couldn't fall asleep. The concept is sick and funny at the same time and I always love Heather Graham movies, she has just a cute innocence about her in every movie she is in.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cute little offbeat romance., February 11, 2002

By	Jayne Ravencroft (Matthews, NC) - See all my reviews

I guess I'm admitting to a guilty pleasure, but I liked this quirky little romance. It was a veritable roller-coaster ride of plot twists to delight any connosieur of zany ribald irreverent comedy. And the romantic mix is a plus. To say much more would give crucial twists away, so I won't. All I'll add, is isn't Heather Graham a marvel? She makes me wonder if she was cryogenically frozen for a decade or more. Until recently I'd known of her only from LICENSE TO DRIVE back in the late eighties or so. She was or looked like a teenager then. Nowadays she reappears in this and AUSTIN POWERS THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME, still looking like a teenager and never loosing a beat with her acting ability and charm. As for her looks, I've heard of Oil of Olay, but this is ridiculous. Where has she been all this time? I hope she keeps up her good work and I see her in more movies soon.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The spirit of Bunuel stalks Hollywood., March 4, 2002

By	darragh o'donoghue (dublin, ireland) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

It's not every mindless Hollywood gross-out comedy that is inspired by Luis Bunuel, the Spanish Surrealist and one of the giants of world cinema. 'Say It Isn't So' - the heartwarming story of a young dog-catcher who finally finds the right woman, only for her to be his sister - contains at least two direct allusions to Bunuel's work - the upending of a disabled person ('L'Age D'Or'); and the use of female body hair as a male beard ('Un Chien Andalou') - but the film is imbued with his anarchic spirit, his satirical targets, his motifs and his procedures. Like 'L'Age D'Or' or 'That Obscure Object Of Desire', 'Say' is a tale of amour fou and frustrated love, in which a 'nice' or 'respectable' man, humiliated and degraded through his obsession with an unattainable woman, becomes crazed and violent - the scene where the former animal-rights sentimentalist starts abusing a cow is truly shocking. As in many Bunuel films, the uncontainable sexual energy derailing the characters is displaced onto the euphemistic imagery - most notably, images of castration abound (bad hair-cuts, ears being lopped off etc.), that suggest the infantaile sexuality or masculine crisis that afflicts the hero, whose downfall is orchestrated by his false mother. This undermining of masculinity is seen in the various violences done the male body throughout the film. Genre is invoked only to be brutally undercut - the road movie, the Western, but especially the romantic comedy, which is nauseatingly indulged in the first quarter hour only to be smashed by the shock revelation. As in 'Viridiana' and 'Los Olvidados', the 'normal', heterosexual narrative, with its attractive stars and conventional linearity, is mocked by the profusion of 'beggar'-type grotesques - in this film, they are the norm, the pretty people are the freaks and perverts. Teeming animal imagery bleakly undemines the human pretensions towards the Ideal and Progress, both hobbled by instinct. All this allows the filmmakers to indulge in hostile, anti-bourgeois sentiments, attacking marriage, the family (Paul Hammond suggests the affair in 'L'Age D'Or' is incestuous; see also the acronym of this movie), bourgeois greed and hypocrisy, and the complicit Law are all violently attacked. If the paralell sounds far-fetched, we must remember that Bunuel denigrated the European art film, and celebrated popular Hollywood modes such as slapstick comedy and melodrama.

On the other hand, we could see 'Say' as a crass attempt to ape producers the Farrelly Bros., retreading their most famous set-pieces, characters and plot developments (sticky stuff in hair; problems with cows; decent hero put through comic horrors in pursuit of svelte girl; the gathering of a community of the disabled). But that would be cynical.

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