Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 06/01/1999
SubTitles: English/Espanol/Por/KO/TH
Dubbed: English/Espanol/Por
Run Time: 93 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Comic actor and former
Saturday Night Live stock player
Mike Myers attempted to transform himself from the goofy title character in
Wayne's World (1992) (and its sequel) into a romantic leading man with this box office disappointment. Myers stars as Charlie Mackenzie, a San Francisco poet who meets the girl of his dreams, Harriet Michaels (
Nancy Travis) when he stops to pick up some haggis for his parents at Meats of the World, a butcher shop where Harriet works. Although he's been neurotically commitment-phobic in the past (dumping one girlfriend because she "smelled like soup"), Charlie thinks Harriet could be the one. That is, until his mother May (
Brenda Fricker) and cop best friend Tony (
Anthony LaPaglia) begin to suspect that Harriet could be an axe-wielding serial killer who has butchered several husbands. Harriet's wacky sister Rose (
Amanda Plummer) and her connection to several of the slayings make Charlie nervous, but he nevertheless pops the question, leading to an eventful honeymoon where all is revealed. Although
So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993) earned less than $12 million at the U.S. box office, Myers hit upon the
Peter Sellers-inspired formula of playing various supporting characters with this film, portraying Charlie's amusingly paranoid father Stuart. The actor repeated the trick with greater success in
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) and its sequel.
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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