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Say It Isn't So

  • 2001
  • R
  • 1h 35m
IMDb RATING
5.0/10
14K
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Heather Graham in Say It Isn't So (2001)
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Romantic ComedyComedyRomance

Jo and Gilly date. They find out they're brother and sister. Jo moves away. Gilly finds out that he's not Jo's brother and that Jo's getting married. Can he stop the wedding in time?Jo and Gilly date. They find out they're brother and sister. Jo moves away. Gilly finds out that he's not Jo's brother and that Jo's getting married. Can he stop the wedding in time?Jo and Gilly date. They find out they're brother and sister. Jo moves away. Gilly finds out that he's not Jo's brother and that Jo's getting married. Can he stop the wedding in time?

  • Director
    • J.B. Rogers
  • Writers
    • Peter Gaulke
    • Gerry Swallow
  • Stars
    • Chris Klein
    • Heather Graham
    • Orlando Jones
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.0/10
    14K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • J.B. Rogers
    • Writers
      • Peter Gaulke
      • Gerry Swallow
    • Stars
      • Chris Klein
      • Heather Graham
      • Orlando Jones
    • 94User reviews
    • 81Critic reviews
    • 21Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Chris Klein
    Chris Klein
    • Gilbert Noble
    Heather Graham
    Heather Graham
    • Josephine Wingfield
    Orlando Jones
    Orlando Jones
    • Dig McCaffrey
    Sally Field
    Sally Field
    • Valdine Wingfield
    Richard Jenkins
    Richard Jenkins
    • Walter Wingfield
    John Rothman
    John Rothman
    • Larry Falwell
    Jack Plotnick
    Jack Plotnick
    • Leon Pitofsky
    Eddie Cibrian
    Eddie Cibrian
    • Jack Mitchelson
    Mark Pellegrino
    Mark Pellegrino
    • Jimmy Mitchelson
    Brent Hinkley
    Brent Hinkley
    • Streak
    Henry Cho
    Henry Cho
    • Freddy
    Richard Riehle
    Richard Riehle
    • Sheriff Merle Hobbs
    Brent Briscoe
    Brent Briscoe
    • Detective Vic Vetter
    Ezra Buzzington
    Ezra Buzzington
    • Stewart
    Julie White
    Julie White
    • Ruthie Falwell
    David L. Lander
    David L. Lander
    • Reverend Stillwater
    Lin Shaye
    Lin Shaye
    • Nurse Bautista
    Barrow Davis-Tolot
    Barrow Davis-Tolot
    • Angela
    • (as Barrow Davis)
    • Director
      • J.B. Rogers
    • Writers
      • Peter Gaulke
      • Gerry Swallow
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    User reviews94

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    mattkratz

    decent

    I found this movie funnier than I expected. Chris Klein and Heather Graham are adequate in the leads, and Klein's character finds himself falling in love with Graham's. When he finds out they might actually be brother and sister, they have to call it off. A while later, Klein learns that it is all a big mistake, but by this time Graham is engaged to marry another man. Klein then sets out to try to break up that wedding, getting into one jam after another, including a mental hospital, prison, and several fights with the redneck townsfolk.

    If you can excuse mild raunchiness and an occassional painful-looking moment, you might like this one.

    *** out of ****
    booksbyalex

    This Movie needs more credit

    This movie is one that you can watch with friends at that time of the night where anything is funny. Not to say this movie isn't any good, but at that time, you can better appreciate the small, not as funny parts about it. A good movie that my friends and I recite to take away the bore of the day. Such as the group therapy scene, well done, one that keeps you laughing even when the scene is far gone. Farrelly Brothers continue to please in this cheap laugh comedy, that made us love the brothers in the first place.
    SoreEyes

    The Farrelly Brothers ROCK! 9/10

    I can't believe the lame reviews IMDB readers gave this film.

    It's an excellent comedy from an excellent film team, and I'd rank it right up there alongside all the other great Farrelly Brothers films... though they didn't actually direct this one... here it's James B. Rogers who appears to have been assistant director on all the rest of Peter and Bobby's major releases except for Shallow Hal.

    Along with The Coen Brothers, and Todd Solondz, the Farrelly Brother's are one of the best things going in American film these days. The fact that so many people claim to be offended by "Say It Isn't So" only makes me like the movie more, and want to see it again. (I've seen it twice so far).

    Chris Klein deserves a special mention here as the few positive reviews credit the spectacularly funny Orlando Jones, Sally Field and of course, Heather Graham ... who are all fine... but Chris Klein appears to have been overlooked, and he really shines in SAY IT ISN'T SO, which is the first film I saw him in.

    Check out "Election" w/ Chris Klein, Matthew Broderick and Drew Barrymore, for more good laughs.

    There were brilliant gags well-paced throughout, but just recalling Orlando Jones (Digs) bush pilot business card alone puts a big smile on my face. 9/10
    Mr. Pulse

    The title says it all

    The title of Say It Isn't So is a better review of the movie than anything I can write. Just when I thought I had seen the worst 2001 had to offer (Including, among others, Freddy Got Fingered, 3000 Miles to Graceland and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider), this movie pops up on late night cable and makes me wish it hadn't. Let's be blunt; this movie stinks.

    If there is a God in the universe in which this movie takes place, then Gilbert Noble (Chris Klein) is his favorite person to torture when He's having a bad day. Gillie is an orphan, a lonely guy working at his local animal shelter. He finds the love of his life Jo Wingfield (Heather Graham), but there's a problem. It seems that Jo's parents are also Gillie's. Jo leaves and finds another guy, when Gillie discovers that he isn't really her brother, so he heads after her.

    The incest joke could, I suppose, have been good for one laugh in a movie. But as the WHOLE movie, it is a rather thin, and the script (by Peter Gaulke and Gerry Swallow) feels like a Farrelly Brothers ripoff, not the real thing. Odd since Peter and Bobby Farrelly are actually two of the producers on this movie.

    As told in the film, everyone in the entire world except Gillie, Jo and one or two other characters, is cold, heartless, and greedy. Gillie is held to a standard of behavior whereby he would need precognitive telepathic abilities to act properly. Even though he didn't know he was sleeping with his sister, he is ridiculed mercilessly, scorned, and abandoned by his "parents." You feel bad for Gillie, especially since Jo is an awful mate, except that she looks like Heather Graham. They fall for each other as she gives him an awful haircut and cuts off his ear. This, Van Gogh fans, is played for laughs.

    The movie is a series of low notes. I thought it couldn't get worse when Sally Field wiped her armpits with a sandwich to give to her stroke-inflicted husband, but that was before the movie shifted locations to Beaver, Oregon, hitting the audience over the head with Beaver joke after Beaver joke. They finally flog that bit to death, but just when you see the light at the end of the tunnel, Gillie sticks his arm in a bull's behind up to his shoulder, then gets dragged through town, then loses something in there he has to retrieve. Chris Klein, so good in Election and American Pie, followed those two fine movies with Say It Isn't So and Rollerball. Say this for him, it's only up from here.

    The only reason to watch this movie is the soundtrack, featuring songs by Teenage Fanclub, Third Eye Blind, and others. I'd like to say skip the movie and get the soundtrack, but apparently the movie did so poorly they never even bothered to release it on CD. I know what you're thinking, "No soundtrack? Say it isn't so!"
    7mattymatt4ever

    Gets off to a slow start, but gets funnier as it goes along

    First of all, I was disappointed that the Farrellys didn't take the director's seat on this one. I hate when previews mislead you like that. Nine times out of ten, when you hear the announcer in a trailer say, "from horror master Wes Craven" or something of that sort, it means the well-known director is a producer or executive producer in the project, like in this case. But it still has that Farrelly vibe, since J.B. Rogers worked as the A.D. in their previous works.

    The movie gets off to a slow start. The gags start off pretty lame. And most of the funny parts shown were given away in the previews. We're handed a lot of quirks, but the comedy doesn't quite gel. We have Richard Jenkins as a wheelchair-bound father, who uses excessive profanity through a voice-box. So far, we're pushing the envelope, but the laughs haven't entirely arrived. I have to admit, though, the nipple-piercing scene was very funny. Luckily, that scene wasn't completely given away in the trailers, because quite frankly--it couldn't be shown on network television.

    The film speeds up the comedy with the arrival of Orlando Jones as a pilot with artificial legs and a Jimmi Hendrix hairdo. For some reason, the Farrellys have an obsession with handicapped characters. Jones is very funny, and brings in the film's biggest laughs.

    I also think we wander into one-joke territory one time too many. OK, the guy banged his sister. It was funny at first. How many times do we have to hear it repeated in the next gag...and the gag after that...and the gag after that? But the gags improve as we go along, and I got more and more laughs. By the last thirty minutes, I was laughing myself silly! So I wouldn't say this comedy is anywhere near as bad as most people said it was.

    "Say It Isn't So" isn't the best comedy of the year, but it often delivers. And it's one of the few comedies that gets funnier as it goes along, rather than starting off with a bang and dragging on as it progresses.

    My score: 7 (out of 10)

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    • Trivia
      The town of Beaver, Oregon, does exist. It is located 20 miles south of Tillamook, OR, and 20 miles east of the Pacific Ocean. However, no scenes in this movie were filmed there.
    • Goofs
      Dig's nonexistent legs can be seen in one scene.
    • Quotes

      Walter: Do you know what the Bible says about fucking your own sister? Don't.

    • Alternate versions
      DVD includes six deleted/altered scenes, one of which is an extended ending where, after Klein finds out who his mom is, we cut to him and Graham on the roof to his vet office and he says that there is are only lonely people then they kiss and live happily ever after.
    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Heartbreakers/15 Minutes/The Dish/Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her/Me You Them (2001)
    • Soundtracks
      Motor City
      Written and Performed by Randy Weeks

      Courtesy of HighTone Records

      By Arrangement with Ocean Park Music Group

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    • Release date
      • March 23, 2001 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Скажи, що це не так
    • Filming locations
      • Squamish, British Columbia, Canada
    • Production companies
      • Twentieth Century Fox
      • Conundrum Entertainment
      • Say It Isn't So Productions
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $25,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $5,520,393
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $2,861,903
      • Mar 25, 2001
    • Gross worldwide
      • $12,320,393
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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