Sentences with phrase «carrey playing»

Forman bypasses the entirety of Kaufman's youth, which would undoubtedly explain something, in favor of filming Carrey playing Kaufman.

It's apparently based on a true story, with Carrey playing a Polish police detective known for his questionable tactics who becomes obsessed with the cold - case killing of a prostitute and his theory that a novelist (Marton Csokas) is the guilty party.

Carrey played the role of Kaufman in the movie, and continued the feud with Lawler, while he spent 80 straight days in character as Kaufman.

Carrey plays a New York City wheeler - dealer who lives in a grand apartment and is separated from his wife (Gugino), with whom he remains on friendly terms, and two children (Carroll and Cotton).

When he finally does start warming up to them, Carrey plays it like something has snapped in his head, and he's heading for a breakdown.

Carrey plays a divorced father who pays more attention to his job than his two children — until he receives a strange inheritance from his own father.

Carrey plays a Rhode Island state trooper who puts up with shocking insults to his manhood and uniform and manages somehow to be a sunny Dr. Jekyll, until he finally snaps and allows his Mr. Hyde to roam free.

In a total reinvention of Richard and Florence Atwater's prize - winning 1938 book, Jim Carrey plays a hotshot New York City real - estate dealmaker (and divorced dad) whose globe - trotting father was a distant presence as he was growing up.

Carrey plays a Rhode Island state trooper with a split personality.

Jim Carrey plays it all with usual physical flair, but not everything without a trace of subtlety works as well.

Could Jim Carrey play Carnage?

The film is no bromance though — Carrey plays a manic cable guy who drags newly single Broderick into his twisted fantasy world.

Based on the 2008 article True Crimes: A Postmodern Murder Mystery by David Grann, Carrey plays «a hard - boiled detective who becomes suspicious of an author when the incidents described in his hit novel resemble the inner - workings of an unsolved murder.».

Then - unknown Jim Carrey plays one of Cage's best friends.

Jim Carrey plays the con artist who finds his soul mate, the eponymous Phillip Morris, in prison and then goes to astonishing lengths to pamper his lover, and, when sent to back prison for some of those lengths, goes to even more astonishing lengths to escape.

Carrey plays his least funny role in a typically over-the-top caricature.

In Yes Man, a film loosely taken from the non-fiction book by Scottish humorist and media personality Danny Wallace, Carrey plays a glum bank employee who, following a nasty divorce, has withdrawn from his friends.

In «Man on the Moon,» Carrey played the legendary comedian Andy Kaufman.

In the film, Carrey plays Bruce Nolan, a newscaster who is hoping to hit the bigtime.

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It's been almost twenty years since Jim Carrey played Andy Kaufman in the film, Man On The Moon directed by Milos Forman.

THE TRUMAN SHOW In this wondrous film from director Peter Weir, Jim Carrey plays the title role of a man whose life has been recorded on live television without his knowledge.

Here, Carrey plays Mark Kendall, a high - school student who's spent six years with the same girl — Robin, played by Karen Kopkins — but has yet to convince her to go all the way.

Not exact matches

On camera, she played Jim Carrey's prisoner in this Farrelly brothers police comedy; off camera, she ended up dating her co-star for 18 months.

The documentary will also include WWE Hall of Famer Jerry «The King» Lawler, as the film details the tailspin that Carrey took after playing the role of Andy Kaufman in the 1999 film «Man on the Moon».

Clementine Kruczynski (played by Kate Winslet) and Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) are a couple whose lives are transformed when they realize they have the option of deleting their troubled time together.

Jim Carrey gained over 50 pounds to play Curly in the upcoming remake of the film, The Three Stooges.

I play down my interests — leaving out that I'm Jim Carrey's ex and a former Playboy model.

But then I'm not sure what Jim Carrey was thinking, taking on a part that — in a perfect world — would have been played by someone like David Hyde Pierce.

So because Carrey won't play mean or even dull, there's no real room for the character to grow, and change.

Overall, Jim Carrey is a good choice to play the slick Mr. Popper, who ends up playing pop to a bunch of penguins.

Tom Popper, the high - powered real estate developer Carrey's playing, gets a refrigerated box at the door of his Roche Bobois - furnished Manhattan penthouse.

Carrey, who was brilliant in last year's «I Love You Phillip Morris,» is an inspired choice to play this role.

Apart from the overacting Carrey, everyone dutifully plays their assigned parts.

Carrey and the legendary Angela Lansbury (having a great time playing a grand lady Popper must deal with) also share a couple of wonderful scenes — one in the highly cinematic Guggenheim Museum.

Here when Carrey elongates his already gaunt face, wears a wool overcoat and slicks back his hair (you know he's snapped when the gel holding it in place wears off), he looks well on his way to being able to play a youngish Montgomery Burns in a live - action «Simpsons» movie.

And instead of having an aura of peace, Mr. Popper is played by Jim Carrey, who is as peaceful as a psychotic episode.

Silly supporting characters are tossed in to give Carrey more characters to play off of, including an albino that may or may not be a sociopath and Charlie's three sons, who are written to be jive - talking geniuses.

Scott plays him like a vulgar Jim Carrey, a festering sore of a personality in desperate need for a filter on his mouth.

Rumors of Carrey going over the edge while playing Andy Kaufman in the latter may explain why he needed a simple movie like Me, Myself & Irene to unwind.

Carrey, returning to the crazed physical comedy with which he made his name, plays Charlie, a repressed Rhode Island Highway Patrol officer badly in need of some therapy.

While True Crimes begins with the upsetting imagery of women raped and abused within the confines of the sex club The Cage, it quickly becomes a tiresome battle of wills between Carrey and Csokas, a man playing the same game as the iconic fictional sociopath Catherine Tramell of Verhoeven's Basic Instinct.

Soon after his breakout in «Bottle Rocket,» Wilson had a small role in Stiller's second movie as director, the dark Jim Carrey comedy «The Cable Guy,» then paired with him on addiction drama «Permanent Midnight,» but the film that really launched them as co-stars was Stiller's absurdist comedy «Zoolander,» with the actors playing moronic male models.

Just a couple of weeks ago it was looking unlikely that Jim Carrey, sought to play Colonel Stars, a member of a Justice League - like band of real - life superheroes in «Kick - Ass 2: Balls to the Walls,» would actually make an appearance in the high - profile sequel.

The strongest attribute of the first film was the character of Big Daddy, memorably played by Nicolas Cage channeling Adam West: having been set fire to in the last film, he's unlikely to return, though there's a juicy supporting role for Jim Carrey, of all people.

The film starts out by examining the task of playing Kaufman, and how Jim Carrey got so immersed in the role he «disappeared from Earth» for two years and became Andy, allowing himself to only be referred to as Andy (or Tony Clifton) on set and nothing else.

It's no small task to play against Carrey, especially as Kaufman.

After breaking out big in the early 1990s, actor Jim Carrey took on his most challenging role yet - playing Andy Kaufman in the film Man on the Moon.

Carrey also often feuds with Man on the Moon director Milos Forman, who even has to call him «Andy» on set because this was his requirement while playing the character.

Carrey is surrounded with a solid lineup of supporting actors, but some of them play characters that are quite familiar.