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"Ooh, somebody stop me!" Stanley Ipkiss (Jim Carrey) is a socially inept banker with little going for him — that is, until he dons a mysterious wooden mask that transforms him into a maniacal, zoot-suited whirlwind of chaos unafraid to pursue his wildest desires. Armed with wacky shape-shifting abilities and his clever pup Milo, "The Mask" charms seductive nightclub singer Tina Carlyle (Cameron Diaz) and provokes her gangster boyfriend Dorian Tyrell (Peter Greene). THE MASK is the zany offspring of a love affair between film noir and Looney Tunes that cemented Carrey's status as the leading comic actor of the '90s and introduced Diaz as a bombshell sex symbol. A veritable box-office hit — until overtaken by 2019's JOKER, the most profitable comic-book adaptation of all time, with a $350 million gross against an $18 million budget — whose kooky special effects garnered an Oscar® nomination. DIR Chuck Russell; SCR Mike Werb; PROD Bob Engelman. U.S., 1994, color, 101 min. RATED PG-13

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