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1996

Jim Carrey’s “Cable Guy” Unwelcome

March 30, 1996 Stephen Michael Brown

Jim Carrey steals the show in director Ben Stiller’s lame comedic indictment of a world saturated by television, The Cable Guy (C). The comedian’s highjinks are funny in parts, but the film’s weighty messages often blunt the laughter in all the wrong places.

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