{"id":29430,"date":"2025-07-29T07:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29430\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T07:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:26:09","slug":"the-dirtier-cut-of-norm-macdonalds-dirty-work-finally-released-commercially","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29430\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dirtier Cut of Norm Macdonald\u2019s Dirty Work Finally Released Commercially"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those who love to laugh, a trio of beloved \u201990s comedies are receiving special 4K Ultra HD reissues this week, with one of them also including a new re-edit that perhaps does a better job of capturing the movie\u2019s spirit. Dirty Work <\/a>(including \u201cThe Dirtier Cut\u201d), Ace Ventura: Pet Detective<\/a>,\u00a0Billy Madison<\/a>, and are available for purchasing beginning Tuesday, July 29th.<\/p>\n

Mostly notably is the new reissue of Dirty Work<\/a>, which includes both the original cut of the 1998 Norm Macdonald<\/a> cult classic, as well as the recently produced \u201cDirtier Cut.\u201d<\/a> The \u201cDirtier Cut\u201d features seven minutes of footage originally cut from the movie to achieve a PG-13 rating, along with alternate takes lovingly restored from the original camera negatives. The release also contains a two-hour assembly cut of the movie, sourced from video, and an extended alternate ending. Order here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also up for grabs are new 4K Ultra HD remasters of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective<\/a>\u00a0and Billy Madison<\/a>. The former stars Jim Carrey in what was arguably his breakout role \u2014 the gleefully silly 1994 mystery comedy featured the one-time In Living Color star alongside Courteney Cox and Tone Loc. Speaking of breakout roles, 1995\u2019s Billy Madison was Adam Sandler\u2019s first time as the lead of a studio comedy (the dawn of the Happy Madison era, followed immediately by 1996\u2019s\u00a0Happy Gilmore), with Sandler launching the platonic ideal of his grown manchild persona on the big screen. Order Ace Ventura: Pet Detective here<\/a>, and Billy Madison here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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For more, check out Consequence\u2019s reflection on Dirty Work\u2019s impact on Macdonald\u2019s career<\/a>, and our review of the latest Adam Sandler romp, the Netflix sequel\u00a0Happy Gilmore 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For those who love to laugh, a trio of beloved \u201990s comedies are receiving special 4K Ultra HD…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-29430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}