Synopsis (spoilers): Two cousins, plus their wives, go together on a trip to Atlantic City. One of them tries his luck at the jackpot machine and, running out of coins, asks the other one for some. He hits the jackpot and the one who provided the coins thinks he deserves half the money. He is a doctor and as a revenge for the other's refusal in sharing the money he gives him a false cancer diagnosis. Upon receiving this sad news, the winning guy gives his mother's house keys to a bum, in the hope that she will die of a heart attack when she sees the man in her house (his ultimate purpose is to alleviate her suffering after he is gone as she would have no one to look after her). He later finds out the truth about his condition listening to a message his doctor friend left in his answering machine. Meanwhile, his mother, as predicted, has a shock to see the bum in her house and is taken to a hospital; she survives though. The doctor receives a phone call from his cousin right when he is about to begin a surgery for the removal of a testicle. Deeply disturbed, he inverts the patient's exam image and removes the wrong testicle. His nurse detects the inversion and warns him. He then proceeds to remove the second testicle, leaving the patient without both. The latter's voice acquires a shrillness which gets him fired from his acting role in a TV show; he vows to avenge himself on the doctor. A worth mentioning subplot refers to the rare ability of the guy who won the jackpot to fellate himself. At a certain point in the movie, he suffers a kind of muscular distension which takes that special ability from him, but later in the movie as he returns to the upright position after picking a dropped object he is magically cured, and promptly proceeds to performing that self-pleasing act.
Appraisal: Cerebral and quirky comedy with highs and, more often, lows.
Rating: 43
(Seen on August 17)
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