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This was Myers' first film after achieving success in the ''[[Wayne's World (film)|Wayne's World]]'' franchise and was not well received by most mainstream critics or at the box office, grossing a total of [[USD]] $11 million in North America, well below its $20 million budget.
This was Myers' first film after achieving success in the ''[[Wayne's World (film)|Wayne's World]]'' franchise and was not well received by most mainstream critics or at the box office, grossing a total of [[USD]] $11 million in North America, well below its $20 million budget.


== Plot ==
Charlie McKenzie ([[Mike Myers|Myers]]) is a [[beat poet]] living in [[San Francisco]], after having broken up with yet another woman based on paranoid perception. His policeman friend Tony tries to point out the pattern; that Charlie simply is afraid of commitment and tries to think of, or invent, any reason to break up with someone. Things pick up again when Charlie meets a butcher named Harriet, and becomes infatuated instantly.


After a while of driving near her workplace, he goes in and volunteers to help her out that day, and eventually a date ensues that evening, with him learning various factoids about her. He learns she used to live in [[Atlantic City]], used to be involved with a trainer for Russian martial arts, and screams at someone named Ralph in her sleep. The next day she is gone when he awakes, but her sister Rose, with whom she lives, is there and tries to get to know him a bit. She then kindly warns him to be careful.


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Meanwhile, Tony begins losing his enthusiasm for his job on the police force, frustrated that there is no action or comparison to how they portray it on TV. He tries to get his chief to become more short tempered, as per the stereotype in movies, by taking on bigger jobs. Charlie comes to Tony begging him to act as a voice of reason for the times ahead, not wanting to get hung up or paranoid about anything he may find odd about her. Charlie and Harriet begin falling deeper in love; he finds that she gets along great with his friends, they have perfectly matched passions, so he takes her to meet his parents.
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His parents Stuart and May are flagrantly Scottish, and tend to believe in conspiracy theories themselves, at which Charlie scoffs. His mother relies on the [[Weekly World News]] to keep her factually updated, and keeps them stacked up as reading material. Charlie picks one up in the bathroom, out of bemusement, and finds an article on "Mrs. X", a bride who kills her husbands on their honeymoon, who seems to perfectly match Harriet. The killer's three reported victims were a [[plumber]] named Ralph, a lounge singer from [[Atlantic City]], and a [[Russians|Russian]] [[martial arts]] student.
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Now strongly suspicious of her, Charlie begs Tony to investigate. After finding that the husbands in question that have disappeared have been reported missing along with their wives, Charlie tries to let the issue go. Unfortunately his panic gets worse, suspecting her all the while but trying to cover it up, and eventually he breaks up with her. After a few days of gloom, Tony informs him that one of the husband's killers confessed. Charlie, realizing that he needs to make changes, rushes back to Harriet, informing her that he will see a therapist. He wins her over by playing one of his poems from her rooftop, and as they reconcile, every doubt he had gets disproved. Her friend Ralph was actually a woman, for example.
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At his parents' 30th year anniversary, Charlie proposes to Harriet, and soon a [[wedding]] is underway. Later, they venture off to a secluded hotel up in the mountains for their honeymoon. Meanwhile, back at the police station, the chief - now playing the short-tempered stereotype - informs Tony that the woman who had taken credit for the murder of the plumber was actually a [[compulsive]] confessor. Tony faxes a photo of Harriet to all of the known associates of the three missing husbands, and they all recognize her as their friends' wife.
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Tony tries desperately to contact Charlie, but finds that the phone lines are down due to a storm where they are honeymooning, so he charters a plane. Upon landing he calls Charlie and warns him that Harriet is "Mrs. X", but before he can tell him anything else, their phone line gets knocked down, and the power goes out. Charlie desperately tries to escape, but Harriet finds him and begins acting unsettled and confrontational as he tries to leave her without letting on that he knows her traits.
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The endearing staff literally forces them into their [[hotel]] room to spend their first night together, and Charlie finds himself alone in the room with Harriet and an axe for the firewood. Harriet locks the door and begins telling him that she's been married before. He forces her into the closet and locks it, then looks down at their desk and sees a "Dear Jane" letter for Harriet, saying he has run away.
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Harriet's sister Rose then suddenly leaps from the shadows and swipes at Charlie with the axe, stating that the husband "is never supposed to be in the room when the note is found", revealing herself to be the true killer. Her motive was the belief that each husband had taken her sister from her. Charlie has no option but to run to the roof and try to evade Rose long enough for the police to show up.

Eventually Tony leads the police into the hotel but arrests Harriet, still believing her to be the murderer. Rose swings the axe at Charlie and is thrown off the building, with only Charlie holding her up from falling to her death, Tony notices and comes to her aid. The authorities take her away, and Charlie and Harriet resume their lives afterward as a happy couple.


==Cast==
==Cast==

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So I Married an Axe Murderer
Theatrical poster
Directed byThomas Schlamme
Written byRobbie Fox
Uncredited:
Mike Myers
Neil Mullarkey
Produced byRobert N. Fried
Cary Woods
StarringMike Myers
Nancy Travis
Anthony LaPaglia
Amanda Plummer
Brenda Fricker
CinematographyJulio Macat
Edited byColleen Halsey
Richard Halsey
Music byBruce Broughton
Distributed byTriStar Pictures
Release date
  • July 30, 1993 (1993-07-30)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$20 million
Box office$11,585,483

So I Married an Axe Murderer is a 1993 American romantic comedy thriller film starring Mike Myers and Nancy Travis. Myers plays Charlie McKenzie, a man afraid of commitment until he meets Harriet (Travis), who works at a butcher shop and may be a serial killer. In addition to playing the main character, Myers also plays Charlie's father, Stuart.

This was Myers' first film after achieving success in the Wayne's World franchise and was not well received by most mainstream critics or at the box office, grossing a total of USD $11 million in North America, well below its $20 million budget.


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Cast

Production

The genesis of the film originated in 1987 when producer Robert N. Fried met with writer Robbie Fox to discuss story ideas. They ended up talking about the problems they had with women and agreed that "most women appeared to be out to destroy us!" the producer recalled.[1] Fried and co-producer Cary Woods formed their own production company in 1992 and So I Married An Axe Murderer was their first film[1] and they were given a $20 million budget.[2] Fox wrote the screenplay in 1987.[3] In the original version, Charlie was Jewish and, according to Fried, it was "initially conceived as being more about paranoia than commitment".[3] Myers wanted changes to the script that would allow him to do some serious acting and Saturday Night Live-style comedy.[2] He extensively rewrote the script with writer Neil Mullarkey, an old friend from Britain.[3] According to Myers, they changed the story and many of the comedic moments. Fox was asked to consider a new set of credits that gave him a "story by" and co-screenplay credit. He rejected the proposal and in arbitration, the Writers Guild of America decided that Fox would receive sole screenwriting credit.[2] Fried and Myers were upset that Mullarkey, who put a lot of work into the script, did not get any credit.[3]

Casting

To play Charlie MacKenzie, Fried and co-producer Cary Woods asked Mike Myers because of the success he had with the first Wayne's World film.[3] He agreed because he liked the script and many of his friends also had a fear of commitment and "were all suffering from cold feet and what is cold feet but a low-grade terror? This story just expands on that terror".[4] Before he was approached, Woody Allen considered playing Charlie. Chevy Chase, Albert Brooks, and Martin Short also considered the role but did not like the character.[3] Sharon Stone was initially set to play Harriet Michaels, the supposed axe murderer of the film's title. Like Myers who has two roles in the film, Stone wanted to play Harriet and the role of Rose, Harriet's sister, the latter part portrayed in the film by Amanda Plummer. Studio executives at Sony did not like the idea of Stone playing both roles, and upon realizing this she refused to accept the part. Nancy Travis was then cast in the role instead. Travis was drawn to her character's "qualities of danger and compassion mixed with humor [which] make her an intriguing character".[1] Anthony LaPaglia said that his character "has grand illusions of being Serpico, you know he's ready to fight crime like his hero did. But he's just not competent".[1] When the actors did the first cast read-through of the script, Charlie's father, Stuart, had not yet been cast. Myers read that character's lines and the filmmakers so enjoyed his interpretation that they realized he could play that role as well.[1] The film also features cameos by Charles Grodin, Phil Hartman, Michael Richards, Mike Hagarty, Debi Mazar, Steven Wright, and Alan Arkin, appearing uncredited as Tony's sensitive boss. They all agreed to be in the film for the opportunity of working with Myers.[1]

Principal photography

To fit both Charlie and his father in the same scene together, the filmmakers used a split-screen process. To look the role of Stuart, Myers spent over three-and-a-half hours having special prosthetic make-up applied.[1] While filming scenes in the butcher shop, Nancy Travis was distracted by Myers' antics and accidentally took off the tip of her middle finger on her left hand while chopping vegetables with a kitchen knife.[2] A local doctor sewed her finger back together. Travis said that she and Myers did a lot of improvising together and he taught her a lot about comedy and showed her "how to be relaxed and spontaneous on the set".[2]

There were stories in the press that Myers' over-inflated ego forced extensive re-shoots on the film and that he tried to deny Robbie Fox credit for writing the film.[3] On the set, director Thomas Schlamme said that he had his differences with Myers over how the film should be shaped. He said that Myers was "taking a stretch beyond his usual self and was playing outside himself. Personality clashes were bound to happen. We struggled".[2] However, the director denied that Myers was a control freak and praised the "total commitment to his work. (But) yes, it was difficult".[2] In addition, several major newspapers and magazines claimed that the film went over budget, with in-fighting among the principal actors and lengthy release delays, and that it was unfunny.[2] Despite these early reports, So I Married an Axe Murderer scored high at test screenings.[5]

Locations

Set in San Francisco, California, the film features many famous sights and neighborhoods of the Golden State metropolis, including the Golden Gate Bridge, the Palace of Fine Arts and Alcatraz. One scene on Alcatraz was filmed in "A" block, an area that is still in its original state from 1912 and is not open to the public. The space for actors, crew and equipment is narrow, a challenge also faced by the makers of The Rock, which has Nicolas Cage's and Sean Connery escaping from their cells.[1] The restaurant where Myers and Travis double date with LaPaglia and Debi Mazar is the Fog City Diner. The butcher shop used for "Meats of the World" was Prudente Meats on Grant Ave in the North Beach Section of San Francisco. The final scenes are set at Dunsmuir House in the East Oakland foothills. Additional special effects and matte paintings created the illusion that the location was secluded among mountains.[1] The exterior shot for the café, Cafe Roads, where Myers recites his beat poetry, is the bar Vesuvio, at Columbus Avenue and Jack Kerouac Alley. The filmmaker picked San Francisco as the film's setting because it was an ideal place for a poet like Charlie to live. Myers has said that he was attracted to its "coffeehouse culture, with its clothes and music and its whole sensibility ... people aren't going to bars as much. They tend to go out and have coffee".[1] Several sets were built in warehouses near Candlestick Park and these soundstages were used for many weeks.[1]

Soundtrack

Untitled
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[6]

Track listing

  1. Boo Radleys - "There She Goes" 2:18
  2. Toad the Wet Sprocket - "Brother" 4:04
  3. Soul Asylum - "The Break" 2:46
  4. Chris Whitley - "Starve To Death" 3:14
  5. Big Audio Dynamite II - "Rush" 3:55
  6. Mike Myers - "This Poem Sucks" 2:04
  7. Ned's Atomic Dustbin - "Saturday Night" 3:08
  8. The Darling Buds - "Long Day In The Universe" 4:08
  9. The Spin Doctors - "Two Princes" 4:15
  10. Suede - "My Insatiable One" 2:57
  11. Sun-60 - "Maybe Baby" 3:43
  12. The La's - "There She Goes" 2:42

Other music in the film

Score

The film's original score was composed and conducted by Bruce Broughton. Due to the movie having a heavy emphasis on popular music, several of Broughton's cues were replaced with songs (such as his main title music being supplanted by The Boo Radleys' version of "There She Goes," and "Butcher Shop Montage" having Big Audio Dynamite's "Rush" substituted). However, Broughton was appreciative of the support music supervisor Danny Bramson and director Thomas Schlamme gave him, stating "I was given the opportunity to make my case, and I didn't get slighted... But the way it ended up was the way it ended up. It was done with a lot of creative latitude, and creative permission and confidence. I can't complain about the way it came out."[7]

Intrada Records released an album of his music on November 25, 2013, featuring the complete score plus alternates and original versions of cues.

  1. Main Title 2:55
  2. Boy Meets Girl 1:09
  3. Weekly World News 0:38
  4. Butcher Shop Montage 1:58
  5. Russian Stroll 2:23
  6. Goin' For It 2:19
  7. Forever Wet 1 1:00
  8. Forever Wet 2 0:59
  9. Creeping Doubt (Revised) 1:05
  10. Ralph 1:05
  11. Name Your Poison 1:12
  12. Ear Needles (Revised) 0:45
  13. Globe Bridge 1:08
  14. Reflections 0:42
  15. You Blew It 0:27
  16. The Bath (Revised) 0:54
  17. She's Guilty (Revised) 1:04
  18. Wedding Bands 0:32
  19. Inn Source #2 2:14
  20. Stalking 0:42
  21. She's Mrs. Axe (Revised) 0:57
  22. The Finale 5:27
  23. The Finale Part 2 3:13
  24. End Theme 1:35
  25. Go See The Folks 0:17
  26. Dinner Drive (Original) 0:27
  27. Goin' For It (Revised) 2:19
  28. Creeping Doubt (Original) 1:05
  29. Ear Needles (Original) 0:14
  30. Globe Bridge (Alternate) 0:29
  31. Second Thoughts 0:13
  32. Second Thoughts (Revised) 0:12
  33. The Bath 0:52
  34. She's Guilty 1:05
  35. She's Mrs. Axe 0:57
  36. The Finale Part 2 (Alternate) 2:26
  37. Inn Source #1 (Haydn Quartet) 1:46
  38. Inn Source #2 (Alternate) 1:32
  39. Only You (And You Alone) 1:31

Total Time: 52:56

Critical reception

So I Married an Axe Murderer was first shown at a screening to benefit the local San Francisco film office on July 27, 1993 at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater and had its official world premiere at the Galaxy Theater in Hollywood on July 28 with Myers, Travis, and LaPaglia in attendance.[5] The film was not well received at the box office. It was released on July 30 in 1,349 theaters and grossed a total of USD $3.4 million on its opening weekend. It made a total of $11.5 million in North America, well below its $20 million budget.[8]

The film had very mixed reviews and has a 52% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 31 reviews. Roger Ebert, in his review for the Chicago Sun-Times, criticized the film for being "a mediocre movie with a good one trapped inside, wildly signaling to be set free".[9] Rolling Stone magazine's review felt that "Juggling mirth, romance and murder requires a deft touch - think of Hitchcock's Trouble with Harry. Axe is a blunt instrument".[10] Entertainment Weekly gave the film a "C-" and said, "In some perverse way, So I Married an Axe Murderer seems to be asking us to laugh at how not-funny it is".[11] In his review for the Washington Post, Hal Hinson had a mixed reaction to Myers' performance: "Everything he does is charmingly lightweight and disposable and reasonably impossible to resist. And in the end, because the character is so easily within reach for him, you may come away feeling a little cheated, as if you hadn't quite seen a movie at all".[12] However, Janet Maslin's review in the New York Times said that it came as "a welcome surprise that So I Married an Axe Murderer, which might have been nothing more than a by-the-numbers star vehicle, surrounds Mr. Myers with amusing cameos and gives him a chance to do more than just coast".[13] In his review for the San Francisco Chronicle, Edward Guthmann called the film a "trifle, at best - but it's so full of good spirits, and so rich with talented actors having a marvelous time, that its flaws tend to wash away".[14]

Home media

A DVD of the film was first released in June 1999. The artwork for the DVD featured an image different than the original movie poster, which had Harriet holding an axe behind her back. A "Deluxe Edition" DVD and Blu-ray edition was released in June 2008.[15]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "So I Married an Axe Murderer Production Notes". TriStar Pictures. 1993. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Stanley, John (August 1, 1993). "Choppy Waters for Axe Murderer". San Francisco Chronicle. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Portman, Jamie (July 30, 1993). "Errors of Outrageous Fortune". Toronto Star. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  4. ^ Kolnow, Barry (August 3, 1993). "Has Success Spoiled Mike Myers? Comic Says No". Montreal Gazette. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  5. ^ a b Fook, John Evan (July 15, 1993). "Axe Murderer Fete to Benefit Frisco Film Commish". Variety. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  6. ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r184682
  7. ^ Liner notes, score album, Intrada Special Collection Vol. 258
  8. ^ "So I Married An Axe Murderer". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2007-09-26. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  9. ^ Ebert, Roger (July 30, 1993). "So I Married An Axe Murderer". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2007-09-26. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  10. ^ Travers, Peter (August 19, 1993). "So I Married An Axe Murderer". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2007-09-26. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  11. ^ Gleiberman, Owen (August 13, 1993). "So I Married An Axe Murderer". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2008-05-05. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  12. ^ Hinson, Hal (July 30, 1993). "So I Married An Axe Murderer". Washington Post. Retrieved 2007-09-26. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  13. ^ Maslin, Janet (July 30, 1993). "Yes, Boy Meets Girl, But This Time the Girl Wields Sharp Objects". New York Times. Retrieved 2007-09-26. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  14. ^ Guthmann, Edward (July 30, 1993). "It's Wayne's Adult World for Mike Myers in Axe". San Francisco Chronicle. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  15. ^ "ASIN: B00177YA1A". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2008-05-30.


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