Bruce Almighty

Bruce Almighty is a comedy featuring Jim Carrey in the leading role. It was released in 2003, directed by Tom Shadyac and was a bumper hit. It became the number one movie in the box-office. Bruce Almighty made a record profit of $85 7 million in the first week of its release. In the film Jennifer Aniston co-stars with Jim Carrey and plays the role of his girl friend Grace Connelly

Bruce Almighty is the story of Bruce Nolan (Jim Carrey) who is a TV news reporter but has no job satisfaction because he is denied the role of an anchorman. He also undergoes through several unfortunate incidents and frustrated he complains to God. God (Morgan Freeman) answers his prayer and appears before him and bestows upon him supernatural powers so that he can perform better. However Bruce misuses the given power and is rebuked by God. At the same time he makes the relationship with his girlfriend Grace Connelly sour. In the end of the movie Bruce realizes his blunder and prays to God for controlling him, the rest of the life. In the film Bruce Almighty God is portrayed as a smart, intelligent man in his middle ages. This portrayal of God in an ordinary human form raised controversies in the Islamic countries such as Egypt and Malaysia. In Egypt Bruce Almighty faced a total ban while in the Malaysian Television it underwent severe editing. Bruce Almighty also set up controversy regarding the use of an actual telephone number instead of using a fictional number. The use of this actual number in the film caused problem to the people who had this number 776 2323. People who wanted to call-up God rang in this number out of curiosity and fun. One reference that the film Bruce Almighty uses from Ace Ventura is the monkey that appears on the movie. The same species of monkey – the capuchin monkey is Ace Ventura’s pet.

The story of Bruce Almighty has strong resemblance with the story of H.G.Wells, ‘The Man who could Work Miracles’. There is also a film version of this story and was released in Hollywood in the same name in 1936. However in the early film version, the original story of H.G. Wells was expanded further. The film has quite a few references to Jim Carrey’s previous movie Ace Ventura where Jim Carrey plays the role of an eccentric detective. Ace Ventura has two parts ‘Ace Ventura: Pet Detective’ and ‘Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls’. In both the films Jim Carrey plays the role of Ace Ventura and the movies are basically hilarious comedies, much to the liking of movie enthusiasts – after all there aren’t really many people who don’t like to laugh. Wikipedia

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