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The film stars Jim Carrey as Bruce Nolan, a down-on-his-luck television reporter who complains to God (played by Morgan Freeman) that he is not doing his job correctly and is offered the chance to try being God himself for one week. It co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Philip Baker Hall, and Tony Bennett.
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Bruce Almighty: Directed by Tom Shadyac. With Jim Carrey, Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Aniston, Philip Baker Hall. A whiny news reporter is given the chance to step into God's shoes.
- (438K)
- Comedy, Fantasy
- Tom Shadyac
- 2003-05-23
- The film was based on a novel (sort of) A decade before "Bruce Almighty" arrived in theaters, a novel by Robert Bausch with a very similar premise was released in 1991, "Almighty Me!"
- Morgan Freeman was not a God of comedy. One thing that made "Bruce Almighty" different from most previous Jim Carrey movies was the fact that the actor was not working as the story's sole source of comedy.
- They gave God a real phone number. Near the start of "Bruce Almighty," Jim Carrey's character gets a phone number on his pager with instructions to call the number if he wants a job.
- Jim Carrey missed Jack Sparrow for Bruce Nolan. Hollywood is full of stories of what-ifs when it comes to iconic roles. You rarely know for sure which movie is going to turn out to be successful while it is still being made, which makes actors hesitate to pick up projects that look ear-marked for failure on the basis of being too risky.
Bruce Nolan (Jim Carrey) is a reporter who covers fluff stories for TV news in Buffalo, New York. The story opens with Bruce in a bakery, spidery hairnet yanked over his forehead, diligently reporting on the largest cookie ever baked in Buffalo.
Bruce : [standing on the top of a skyscraper in a storm] I am Bruce Almighty! My will be done!
May 5, 2003 · There is about Jim Carrey a desperate urgency that can be very funny, as he plunges with manic intensity after his needs and desires. In “Bruce Almighty,” he plays a man for whom the most important thing on earth is to become an anchor on a Buffalo TV station.
May 30, 2003 · Bruce Almighty is a perfectly respectable Jim Carrey comedy that makes you feel as if you’re right back in 1997, watching ”Liar Liar.” Carrey, who looks like he hasn’t altered a hair on his head...
