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Dumb & Dumber - Plot

Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne are two well-meaning, extremely unintelligent men who live together in their Providence, Rhode Island apartment, and are recently out of work. Prior to his firing, Lloyd drives Mary Swanson to the airport by limousine. Christmas is immediately smitten and falls in love with her along the way. After entering the airport terminal, Mary sets a cash-filled briefcase in the middle of a terminal area in the airport before her departure to Aspen, Colorado. Upon seeing this, Lloyd rushes in to bring it to Mary, thinking she has forgotten it. What he does not know is that the briefcase was intentionally left behind because it contains ransom money for the man who had Mary's husband kidnapped.

Lloyd (after being fired from his job) returns to his apartment at the same time as the also-fired and equally dimwitted Harry. The two leave briefly to search for new jobs, but to no avail. After returning, Harry discovers his pet parakeet Petey has died due to his head "falling off". What actually happened was that the bird was murdered by Mary's husband's kidnappers, who tracked Lloyd back to his place. Between the death of the bird and Lloyd's wallet being stolen by an elderly woman, the two decide to leave their troubles behind and start anew in Aspen. They also intend to return the briefcase to Mary and become a part of the town's social scene.

Harry and Lloyd trek westward across the country in hopes of finding Mary, encountering several misfortunes and adversaries along the way. Joe "Mental" Mentalino, one of the people hired by Mary's husband's kidnapper tries to foil Lloyd and Harry's plans around the time they get to the midwest. Mental's attempt to poison the two and steal the briefcase fails and winds up killing himself after the idiots mistakenly medicate him with rat poison.

Once the two arrive in Aspen, they realize that they are strapped for cash and have no place to stay. During a quarrel, they mistakenly break the case open to discover for the first time that the briefcase is filled with cash. Upon discovering this, they "borrow" the money to buy elaborate clothes, a Lamborghini, and a very expensive hotel suite. They intend to pay the loans back with paper IOUs. Later in the visit, the two encounter Mary at a wildlife preservation benefit- only Harry is the one who talks and becomes friends with her. Lloyd discovers Harry's two-timing ways and sabotages his date with Mary by spiking tea with laxative, leading to a lengthy toilet scene by Jeff Daniels, a great example of bathroom humor.

Lloyd and Harry continue to argue over who "gets" Mary, culminating in the kidnapping of all three by Mary's husband's kidnapper. The kidnapper turns out to be a close friend of the Swanson family. There is a brief standoff in the hotel room amongst the four, until FBI agents storm in and arrest the kidnapper. Mary's husband is returned to her (much to the dismay of Lloyd and Harry), and the two fools are left to find a way home for themselves. Along the way home, they inadvertently turn down a chance to be oil boys for bikini models.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Plot", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki