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Jim Carrey stars as Carl Allen, a man who signs up for a self-help program based on one simple principle: say yes to everything...and anything. At first, unleashing the power of 'yes' transforms Carl's life in amazing and unexpected ways, but he soon discovers that opening up his life to endless possibilities can have its drawbacks.
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Synopsis: Based on Danny Wallace's autobiographical book, Jim Carrey is set to star as a man that decides to spice up his life by saying yes to everything in his life that he would normally say no to. Fun With Dick and Jane's creative team of director Peyton Reed and writer Nicholas Stoller head up theRead More
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The film, directed by Ron Howard and starring Jim Carrey, is scheduled to be released in November 2000. To commemorate not only the film but the creativity of the late Dr. Seuss as well, Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment have paired with the United States Postal Service in a joint promotion offering stamps featuring the lovable characters of Whoville.
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Carrey's parents fell on hard times and were forced to move to the Toronto suburb of Scarborough, where they took security and janitorial jobs in the Titan Wheels factory at 1051 Tapscott Rd (now IPSCO Ontario Inc). The Carrey's lived in a historical house located on site. Carrey attended Blessed Trinity Catholic School in North York for two years, then began at Agincourt Collegiate Institute, Scarborough's oldest high school. For a time the family was in such financial straits that they lived in their Volkswagen van on a relative's lawn. In order to help out, Carrey began working eight-hour shifts each day after school.
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Despite his difficult situation, Carrey's ambitions remained intact. It was now that he took a ride up to Mulholland Drive and looked down over Hollywood, visualising massive stardom for himself. On a piece of file card he replicated a cheque for $10 million, made out to himself and post-dated for Thanksgiving Day, 1995. Incredibly, the visualisation would actually work, and just in time. Only three days before Percy's death, Carrey would be offered $10 million for The Mask 2, delighting his father no end. Carrey would slip the original piece of card into his dad's breast pocket before they closed the coffin.
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Carrey seems to be a curious, furious tension between a craving for revenge and adoration. From a Canadian blue-collar trailer park family with a sickly, hysterical mother and a manic-depressive father, he tried to please and distract in equal measure. He wrote himself a cheque for $15 million when he was starting out in the 1980s. (In a curiously ambivalent gesture, he placed the cheque in his father's coffin). Having succeeded, he surpassed fellow Hollywood comedians such as Steve Martin, Mike Myers and William Shatner – like them, he is a Canadian whose job it is to be mistaken for an American.
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