Step Brothers, the 2008 comedy starring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, was our first movie selection for 50/50. We selected this one because it was on one of the channels carried by our low-rate satellite package, and because the veteran actor who plays the successful physician—whose loutish son Dale (Reilly) battles epically with the equally idiotic Brennan (Ferrell)—called my alma mater his alma mater nearly three decades before I could. I buy Ferrell’s comedic genius—his recent Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for Humor recognition is wholly deserved—but for me, it is Reilly who steals the scenes for me in this film, much like he does in Cedar Rapids.
My favorite quote (the scene involves the freeloading Dale unloading on Brennan and his mom while they were seated by him and his dad at the dining-room table):
You and your mom are hillbillies. This is a house of learned doctors.
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