Here’s the thing that makes Cable Guy stand out from the rest: it’s perhaps the only film in Carrey’s oeuvre that perfectly blends style with substance. At the end of its run, The Cable Guy earned a still decent $102M at the box office, but was quickly and unfairly discarded as a misfire.Ĭarrey would go on to make Liar Liar ($302M) and The Truman Show ($264M), which got him back on top of the box office he would later star in massive hits like Ron Howard’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas ($345M) and Bruce Almighty ($484M and still his highest-grossing film), but none of those movies quite matched the creative prowess of The Cable Guy, which, for me, is still Carrey’s best (and, perhaps, most personal) film - and this is coming from someone who adores Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Unfortunately, the dark comedy about a lonely and mentally disturbed cable guy in need of a friend ignited the media but failed to stir audiences itching for more of Carrey’s rubbery-faced mayhem. RELATED: Jim Carrey Andy Kaufman Doc Jim & Andy Acquired by Netflix The actor was already fairly well-known thanks to his stint on In Living Color, but back-to-back hits in Ace Venture: Pet Detective ($107 million worldwide), The Mask ($351M), Dumb and Dumber ($246M), Batman Forever ($336M), and Ace Venture: When Nature Calls ($212M) from February 1994 to November 1995 made the comedian a household name and earned him a $20M payday for his next venture, Ben Stiller’s The Cable Guy.
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