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Genres:
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Comedy /
Romance
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Release:
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Director:
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Peyton Reed
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Actors:
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Sean O'Bryan,
Rhys Darby,
Sasha Alexander,
Jim Carrey,
Zooey Deschanel,
Bradley Cooper,
John Michael Higgins,
Danny Masterson,
Fionnula Flanagan,
Terence Stamp,
Molly Sims,
Brent Briscoe,
Rocky Carroll,
John Cothran Jr.,
Spencer Garrett
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Duration:
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104 min.
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Rating:
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(7.1/10)159
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Plot Summary:
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Carl Allen is at a standstill. No future... Until the lifetime he enrolls into a personal enlargement program based on a very simple idea: say yes to everything! Carl discovers with amazement the magical power of "Yes", and sees his past master and romantic life turned upside down overnight: an unexpected aiding and a new girlfriend. But he'll soon meet with that gambler can be good's enemy, and that all opportunities shouldn't be infatuated.
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Lookin Good
Looks like this is another another Jim Carrey classic. Can't wait for this to be released.
Yes Man
Claudia PuigYes, yes, it's Liar Liar 2. Yes Man is more than just familiar. It feels downright repetitive. The plot relies on a high concept so similar to that 1997 movie that the audience will get a decided feeling of d??j?? viewed. In the earlier film, Jim Carrey played a selfish guy with a chronic habit of lying. He is forced, via his son's birthday wish, to tell the truth for 24 hours. This time, Carrey plays Carl, the quintessential naysayer. An increasingly withdrawn loan officer, he routinely turns down prospective clients and roundly refuses invitations from friends. Still shattered from the break-up of a relationship more than two years before, he's in a rut. A chance encounter with an exuberant and slightly unhinged friend (a funn...
Yes Man
Michael Phillips
Director Peyton Reed is used to working in italics. His Down With Love (2003) was an entirely italicized movie, reworking the plot mechanics and arch visual strategies of the Doris Day/Rock Hudson sex comedies of the late 1950s and early '60s. It turned out more like a cinematic term paper than a movie, but Reed's willingness to go all the way -- further than Doris Day ever did, at least before the ring and the fade-out -- marked him as a director to watch.
In Yes Man, he's working with the human italic button known as Jim Carrey, who shot to movie fame as Ace Ventura and the Mask, characters straight from the cartoon world or the world according to Frank Tashlin's live-action comedies. These days (Carrey turns 47 next month), the star isn't g...
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