Peter Farrelly

Did You Know?

• Peter is a Providence College graduate.
• Peter and his wife Melinda have two children.
• Peter and Bobby Farrelly are brothers and business partners.
• Peter and his brother like to use friends and family for roles in their movies.
• QUOTE: "There's two lines. There's a line that the critics will tell you is there. And then there's the real line. And the real line is what we go towards. We never cross that line. Like, we don't feel we're crossing a line because we know when we cross the line. That's when they don't laugh, because the audience won't laugh if it's truly mean-spirited."
• Peter earned his Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from Columbia University.
• Peter lives in Massachusetts in the country.

Movie Highlights

Dumb And Dumber (1994)
It took 10 years for the Farrelly brothers to get Dumb And Dumber off of paper and onto the big screen.

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