[
Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.jpg|thumb|[[Peter Farrelly] and
Bobby Farrelly in the
East Village]], 2009.The
Farrelly brothers,
Peter (b. December 17, 1956) and
Bobby (b. June 17, 1958), are
screenwriters and
directors of ten
comedy films, including
There's Something About Mary;
Dumb and Dumber;
Kingpin;
Me, Myself & Irene;
Shallow Hal;
Stuck on You;
Osmosis Jones;
Fever Pitch (also known as
The Perfect Catch outside of America) and
The Heartbreak Kid.
The Farrelly brothers are from
Cumberland, Rhode Island, and many of their movies partially take place in that state, or elsewhere in
New England.
Sports play a large part in their films and they have cast many popular sports stars for
cameo appearances. The Farrelly brothers frequently cast
Rob Moran and sports figures (e.g.
Cam Neely;
Roger Clemens;
Brett Favre) in their films.
They have been both praised and criticized for their humorous use of
disability. They frequently depict able-bodied people as stupid (
Dumb and Dumber) while they show disabled people as being aspirational (
Shallow Hal) or gifted (
Me, Myself & Irene).
