After a bitter divorce, a loan officer falls under the sway of a self-help guru who urges him to say yes to everything that comes his way for a year. Watch all you want. Jim Carrey tries the power of positive thinking in a comedy co-starring Zooey Deschanel, Bradley Cooper and Terence Stamp.
Yes Man is based on a memoir of the same name by humourist Danny Wallace. The book tells of the 6-month period in which he committed himself to saying 'Yes' to everything based on a brief conversation with a stranger he met on the bus.
Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel star in the wild romantic comedy Yes Man. After going through a bad break up Carl Allen becomes withdrawn and antisocial until he goes to a self-help seminar and enters a program that requires him to say "yes" to any opportunity that presents itself.
Britannica Dictionary definition of YES–MAN. [count] disapproving. : a person (especially a man) who agrees with everything that someone says : a person who supports the opinions or ideas of someone else in order to earn that person's approval.
In the movie Yes Man (2008) the age difference between Jim Carey (46) and love interest Zoey Deschanel (28) is almost the same as the age between Jim Carey and the "old lady" character Fionnula Flanagan (66) who comedically fellates him. 18 years vs 20 years.
In the first minutes of Yes Man (Warner Bros.), 46-year-old Carrey smacks into a tray-bearing barmaid and falls creakily to the floor. There's no spryness in this tumble, no hint of the actor's customary Gumby-as-overactor persona.
In 2020, he portrayed Dr. Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog and its 2022 sequel and Joe Biden in six episodes of Saturday Night Live in the leadup to the 2020 United States presidential election.
Terry feels discriminated against when the summer jobs at the Sun Tribune go to two guys. She decides to do something about it. She dresses like a guy and gets a haircut.
When Carl Allen isn't turning down loan applications at the bank where he works, he's turning down invitations from his friends. His life takes a radical turn when he grudgingly attends a self-help seminar by a "Yes" guru. Unleashing the power of YES begins to transform Carl's life in amazing, unexpected ways.
There are no scenes in Yes Day that could scare or disturb children under five years. There's one scene in Yes Day that might upset children aged 5-8 years.
"Yes Man" is surprisingly good, and here the punch line is everything. Jim Carrey is great in Director Peyton Reed's hysterical romantic comedy. Zooey Deschanel is amazingly charming and quirky.
Instead of Carrey receiving a pay cheque, the actor took a 36.2 percent stake in the movie's profit after banking on his popularity bringing viewers to the cinema and it's thought he made between $35 (£28) million and $50 (£40) million.
Jim Carrey passed along his entertainment industry chops to his first and only child, daughter Jane Erin Carrey, 36. Fittingly, the Ace Ventura: Pet Detective star met his future wife Melissa Womer at a comedy store and quickly fell in love. Carrey and Womer welcomed Jane six months after their wedding on Sept.
During a conversation about his newest movie, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, the 60-year-old star revealed to Access Hollywood that he is "retiring" from acting. Asked by host Kit Hoover in an interview that was posted Thursday if he was being serious, Carrey said, "I'm being fairly serious."
Parents need to know that Yes, God, Yes is a semi-autobiographical teen comedy set in the early 2000s. It centers on Alice (Natalia Dyer of Stranger Things, a Catholic high school girl who accidentally ends up having a sexual internet chat with a stranger the same week that rumors spread at school…
Maine both wrote and directed the film, which tells the story of Alice, a Catholic school girl, played by “Stranger Things” actress Natalia Dyer, who feels alone as she discovers herself to be a sexual being in a religious environment where sexual desires and curiosity are considered “sinful” — but also where everyone ...
