<P> The movie was filmed in Miami, Florida . The Big Pink Restaurant is where Healy meets with Sully, the hair gel scene was filmed at the Cardozo Hotel, and the Miami - Dade Cultural Center was the location for the architecture exhibit Mary and Healy attended together . Churchill's Pub was used as a strip club for a scene with Healy . The makeup effects and animatronic animal effects were the handiwork of Makeup Effects Designer Tony Gardner and Alterian, Inc . </P> <P> Besides Ben Stiller, actors Owen Wilson and Jon Stewart were considered potential candidates for the role of Ted Stroehmann . Bill Murray was considered for the role of Pat Healy, but the Farrelly brothers thought he was too old for it . Brett Favre plays himself in a cameo that was originally written - for and offered to NFL quarterback Steve Young, but he turned the role down due to the film's coarse nature and was replaced with Favre . </P> <P> There's Something About Mary was 1998's third highest - grossing film in North America as well as the fourth highest - grossing film of the year globally . The film made $369 million worldwide on a budget of $23 million, with $176 million coming from the U.S. and Canada . It was released in the United Kingdom on September 25, 1998, and topped the country's box office for the next two weekends . </P> <P> The film received positive reviews from critics . Rotten Tomatoes gives it a score of 83% based on 83 reviews, and an average rating of 7 / 10, with the consensus: "There's Something About Mary proves that unrelentingly, unabashedly puerile humor doesn't necessarily come at the expense of a film's heart ." Metacritic gives the film a score of 69 out of 100 based on reviews from 29 critics . </P>

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