Dumb and Dumber To is a 2014 American comedy film co-written and directed by Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly. It is the third film in the Dumb and Dumber film series and a sequel to the 1994 film Dumb and Dumber. It stars Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels reprising their roles 20 years after the events of the first film, and also features Rob Riggle, Laurie Holden, Rachel Melvin, and Kathleen Turner. The film tells the story of Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne (played by Carrey and Daniels, respectively), two dimwitted but good-natured adults who set out on a cross-country road trip to locate Harry’s daughter who has been adopted.
Plot
Twenty years after the first film, Lloyd Christmas has been committed at Baldy View Sanitarium, a mental institution, ever since he discovered Mary Swanson was married. During a recent visit, his best friend Harry Dunne discovers that Lloyd pranked him into thinking he was depressed the entire time. They head to their apartment, where Harry reveals he needs a kidney transplant.
They go to Harry’s old home, but Harry cannot get a kidney from his parents because he was adopted as a baby. Harry’s dad gives him his mail that has been piling up since he moved out. It includes a postcard from his ex-girlfriend, Fraida Felcher, from 1991, stating that she is pregnant and needs Harry to call. Fraida admits that she had a daughter named Fanny that she gave up for adoption. She wrote Fanny a letter, only for it to be returned and instructed to never contact her again.
Hoping she can provide a kidney, Lloyd and Harry drive a hearse that Fraida gave them to Oxford, Maryland, where she now lives. Dr. Bernard Pinchelow and his wife Adele are Fanny’s adoptive parents. Fanny, who has taken the name Penny, is going to a KEN Convention in El Paso, Texas to give a speech on her father’s life work. Penny is given a package to be given to one of the convention heads but, being dim-witted herself, ends up forgetting the package and her phone.
Adele is secretly trying to poison Bernard to have his fortune, with the help of her secret lover, family housekeeper Travis Lippincott. Harry and Lloyd arrive to inform the Pinchelows of their situation. Bernard realizes Penny forgot the package, which he says contains an invention worth billions. Adele suggests that Harry and Lloyd deliver the package to Penny. So that he and Adele can get the box, Travis accompanies Harry and Lloyd. After a near death causing prank, Travis attempts to kill them but dies in a train collision. Adele hears of the death from Travis’s twin brother Captain Lippincott, a former military man who agrees to help her kill Harry and Lloyd.
When the duo arrives in El Paso, Harry impersonates Bernard, so he and Lloyd are invited to a seminar. They get into an argument when Harry discovers that Lloyd has developed a romantic attraction to Penny. After being escorted out of the convention due to not being on the attendance list, Lloyd gets a call from Penny. After informing Penny that he is in town with her dad, they arrange a meeting at a restaurant during which Lloyd deduces that he, not Harry, is Penny’s father.
Adele arrives at the convention with Lippincott and exposes Harry as a fraud, telling the convention heads that he stole the package. Fraida also arrives and triggers the fire alarm to create a diversion after she and Penny are denied entry. As the building is evacuated, Harry runs into Fraida and Penny, only to have Lippincott and Adele corner them with guns in a bathroom. At this moment, Lloyd returns, having been to Mexico to have one of his own kidneys removed for Harry. Lippincott and Adele are about to shoot, but three FBI agents who were with Penny bust in with a cured Bernard, who reveals that he knew that Adele was trying to poison him. It is revealed that it was Adele, not Penny, who wrote “do not contact again” on Fraida’s letter, and that the “invention” was just cupcakes. Angrered by the fact that her plans got ruined, Adele attempts to shoot Penny, but Harry takes the bullet and is severely injured. Adele (who gets beaten up by Frida) and Lippincott are arrested.
Harry is rushed to the hospital where he reveals that he was pranking Lloyd about needing a kidney while they both laugh. Fraida reveals that Penny’s biological father is Harry and Lloyd’s deceased high school friend, Peter “Pee-Stain” Stainer. As the duo leave El Paso, they spot two women walking in their direction and shove them into a bush as a joke. Harry and Lloyd run off and high-five each other.
In a post-credit scene, Lloyd and Harry are driving home in a Zamboni and toss their milkshakes into a truck belonging to Sea Bass, a minor antagonist from the first film. He and his friend recognize the duo and try to ram them, opening the possibility for another sequel.
Cast
Jim Carrey as Lloyd Christmas
Jeff Daniels as Harry Dunne
Dalton E. Gray as Young Harry
Rob Riggle as Travis and Captain Lippincott
Laurie Holden as Adele Pinchelow
Don Lake as Doctor Roy Baker
Kathleen Turner as Fraida Felcher
Steve Tom as Dr. Bernard Pinchelow
Rachel Melvin as Penny Pinchelow/Fanny Felcher, Dr. Pinchelow’s adopted daughter and Fraida’s biological daughter
Tembi Locke as Dr. Walcott
Paul Blackthorne as Emergency Room Doctor
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