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Yes Man
Carl Allen, a guy whose life is going nowhere, signs up for a self-help program based on one simple covenant: say yes to everything…and anything.
2008 · Directed by Peyton Reed · 104 min · Comedy · Romance · Screenplay in the scene database · 12 frames
Tagline
One word can change everything.
Plot
Bank loan officer Carl Allen has become withdrawn since his divorce from his wife Stephanie. Having an increasingly negative outlook and ignoring his friends Peter and Rooney, he misses Peter and his fiancée Lucy's engagement party.
His old colleague Nick suggests that Carl attend a motivational seminar that encourages people to seize every opportunity to say "yes". At the seminar, Carl meets inspirational guru Terrence, who has him enter a "covenant with the universe" and say yes to everything asked of him.
As they leave the seminar, Carl says "yes" to a homeless man's request and becomes stranded, out of gas, and with no battery life on his cell phone in Elysian Park. Walking to a gas station, he meets Allison, an eccentric young woman. She gives him a hectic ride back to his car on her scooter and, when he asks her to make out with him, she kisses him before leaving. A few days later, he is offered oral sex by his elderly neighbour Tillie for helping her put up shelves; when he declines and immediately experiences bad luck, he returns and surprisingly enjoys the moment.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Andrew Mogel, Jarrad Paul, Nicholas Stoller
- Cinematography: Robert D. Yeoman
- Edited by: Craig Alpert
- Music: Lyle Workman, Mark Oliver Everett
- Production design: Andrew Laws
- Produced by: Richard D. Zanuck, David Heyman
Cast
- Jim Carrey as Carl Allen
- Zooey Deschanel as Renee Allison
- Bradley Cooper as Peter
- John Michael Higgins as Nick
- Rhys Darby as Norman
- Danny Masterson as Rooney
- Fionnula Flanagan as Tillie
- Terence Stamp as Terence
- Sasha Alexander as Lucy
- Molly Sims as Stephanie
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: Estonian, English, Korean
- Studios: Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures, Heyday Films, The Zanuck Company
- Budget: $70,000,000
- Box office: $223,200,000
- Themes: california, bungee-jump, falling in love, ex-wife, hollywood bowl, excuse, burlesque, opposites attract, loan officer, scooter
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