Jim Carrey – Information

Cast: Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel, Bradley Cooper, John Michael Higgins 
and Terence Stamp.
Director: Peyton Reed.
Screenwriters: Nicholas Stoller, Jarrad Paul and Bradley Cooper.
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Jim Carrey plays Carl Allen, a man who feels that his life has come to a complete standstill. That all changes one day when he enrolls into a personal development program where participants are told that the answer to everything is YES!

And so … Carl decides to take this new meaning of life to the test and starts saying “yes” to everything and everyone. He soon finds out that his new way is a blessing and opens up a lot of doors that were closed before.

For awhile … everything is jolly and Carl enjoys his discovery to the fullest. It isn’t before long, however, that Carl starts to understand that not all “yes-es” are created equal and there are things that no man should ever agree to … 

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• Jim Carrey performed his own bungee jump stunts.
• Jim Carrey declined an upfront salary for this film. Instead he will be paid 36.2% of the film’s profits.
• Jack Black was originally considered for the lead role.
• Based on an autobiographical book written by Danny Wallace, a British author, producer, and journalist who spent a year answering “yes” to any given question or proposal and recording the results.
• The day before Zooey Deschanel had to get on the scooter for the first time, her stunt double fell off and shattered her hip. Zooey was told that it would take the stunt woman about nine months to recover, so she was asked to get on the bike for the shot herself.
• Cameo: [Danny Wallace] The writer of the book upon which the film is based can be seen sitting at the bar during the wedding shower.
• Even though one of the movie’s main posters has Jim Carrey running through a field of flowers gracefully, he does not run through a field of flowers once throughout the film.
• The song Jim Carrey uses for the ringtone on his cell phone and the song played while he is riding the motorcycle to speak to Allison is “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)” by Journey.
• The song Carl sings to the suicidal man is “Jumper” by Third Eye Blind.
• When Jim Carrey is in blockbuster the second time around, he picks up The Cable Guy (1996), a movie he stars in, to rent.
• There are multiple references to Harry Potter in the film. David Heyman, one of the film’s producers, also produces the Harry Potter films.
• While Carl is in the video store you can see another Jim Carrey movie, The Number 23 (2007), playing out of focus in the background.
• Stars Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel share the same birthday, January 17. However, Carrey was born in 1962 and Deschanel in 1980 making him exactly eighteen years older than her.
• In Norm’s office, we see posters for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and The Goonies (1985). Both movies featured Chris Columbus directing or writing. Footage from the first two Harry Potter films is also shown during the party scene.
• Terence Stamp plays the leader of the Yes Program. He plays a similar character in Bowfinger (1999) as leader of the mind-head cult.
• Jim Carrey was seduced by the project as he felt it would enable him to act in some truly funny scenes which would also make the audience think about themselves and wonder if they should perhaps say “yes” more often.
• Director Peyton Reed spent a lot of time with Jim Carrey to find the right tone for the film, one which would be in between Carrey’s manic comedies and his more serious-minded films, as well as to complete the subject’s Americanization, as the source book comes from a British author.
• Just like his character, Jim Carrey said “yes” to many things during the production of this movie. He indeed truly played the guitar, learned basic Korean, rode a sport bike and bungee-jumped. He however had to say “no” for the body blading scene.
• The fictional band Munchausen By Proxy featured in the film is named after the Münchausen syndrome by proxy, which is a psychological disorder, and is composed of actress/singer/songwriter Zooey Deschanel and the real-life band Von Iva, which got the part after music supervisor Jonathan Karp saw the cover of their CD in Amoeba, in Hollywood. On Lakeshore Records’ soundtrack release they are credited as “Munchausen by Proxy featuring Zooey Deschanel & Von Iva”.
• Composer Mark Everett is the lead singer of the rock band The Eels, which explains the large number of songs by the band featured in the film.
• While filming the scene in the bar where Carl runs into a waitress and falls on his back, Jim Carrey did the stunt incorrectly, fell to the floor harder than he expected, and broke three ribs in the process.