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1992 American drama film

Doing Time on Maple Drive is a 1992 American made-for-televisiondrama film written by James Duff and directed by Ken Olin. The movie stars James Sikking, Bibi Besch, William McNamara, Jayne Brook, David Byron, Lori Loughlin and Jim Carrey. It premiered on March 16, 1992 on Fox, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie. The tagline promoting the film was "They are living a lie called the Perfect American Family". It was shot entirely in Los Angeles.

Plot

Phil Carter (Sikking) is a successful restaurateur, who has been married for many years to his wife, Lisa (Besch). They have three grown offspring, Karen (Brook), Tim (Carrey), and Matt (McNamara). Karen is married to Tom (Byron), an art photographer. Tim works in Phil's restaurant. Matt is a recently engaged college student. Despite outward appearances, the family is quite dysfunctional. Tim is an alcoholic who failed out of college. He catches Phil bribing local officials to overlook problems with the restaurant and tells his father that he resents him for acting like his drinking makes him a criminal when Phil is committing his own misdeeds. Tom thinks his in-laws dislike him because they believe that he destroyed Karen's literary career. Phil tells Tom that he and Karen are not financially stable enough to have children yet. Lisa is in deep denial about her family's problems.

Matt brings his fiancée, Allison (Loughlin), home from college one weekend to meet his family. While there, she witnesses some of their issues. She also discovers that Matt is gay after finding a letter in his jacket from his ex-boyfriend, Kyle. Early the next morning, she gives Matt the letter, breaks the engagement, and leaves after saying that she won't reveal his secret. Matt invents an excuse to explain her departure and doesn't say anything about the wedding. He carries on as if still engaged and attends his bachelor party, where T

For the retired American ice hockey player, see Jim Carey (ice hockey).

James Eugene Carrey (born January 17, 1962) is a Canadianactor and comedian. He is known for his acting in movies, such as the Ace Ventura movie series, Dumb and Dumber, The Cable Guy, Liar Liar and Bruce Almighty. He has also been successful in dramatic roles in movies such as The Truman Show, Man on the Moon, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Number 23. He won the Golden Globe Award in 2000. Carrey has attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Influences

Carrey stated comedians like Jerry Lewis, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Dick Van Dyke, Bill Cosby, Mel Brooks and Sam Kinison as influences.

Filmography

References

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Actor filmography

Jim Carrey is a Canadian-American actor and comedian who has appeared in various feature films, television films/series, along with one video game appearance. He is one of the top-50 highest-grossing actors of all time at the North American box office, with over $2.5 billion total gross and an average of $94.3 million per film. He has been involved with thirteen films that grossed over $250 million at the worldwide box office; the highest-grossing film being Bruce Almighty. Carrey gained his first lead role on the short-lived television series The Duck Factory in 1984, playing a young cartoonist. His first starring role in film was the 1985 comedy horrorOnce Bitten, with Lauren Hutton as a vampire countess and Carrey playing her victim. He landed supporting roles in films, such as Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), The Dead Pool (1988) and Earth Girls Are Easy (also 1988). In 1990, Carrey received his commercial breakthrough on Fox's In Living Color (1990–1994), where he displayed his character work.

In 1994, Carrey's breakthrough came when he landed the leading role in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, in which he played a goof-ball detective specialized in crimes involving animals. The film would go on to earn over $72 million at the box office. He went on to star in the sequel Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls in 1995. In 1994, he starred in two commercial successes: The Mask with Cameron Diaz, and Dumb and Dumber with Jeff Daniels. The films ended up grossing $120 million and $127 million, respectively, and established Carrey as a star. Other 1990s films he starred in included Batman Forever (1995), The Cable Guy (1996) and Liar Liar (1997).

In 1998, he gained critical acclaim in the satirical comedy-drama film The Truman Show, in which he played Truman Burbank, a man whose life was, unbeknownst to him, a top-rating rea

James Eugene Redmond "Jim" Carrey (born January 17, 1962) is a Canadianfilmactor and comedian. He is known for his manic, slapstick performances in comedy films such as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective; Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls; The Mask; Dumb and Dumber; Me, Myself & Irene; Fun with Dick and Jane; The Cable Guy; Liar Liar; Bruce Almighty; and Batman Forever. Carrey has also achieved critical success in dramatic roles in films such as The Truman Show, Man on the Moon, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. He also provides the voice for Horton the Elephant in the animated feature film Horton Hears a Who!, released on March 14, 2008. The film was his first animated feature role. He has won two Golden Globe Awards. He is of English, French, Irish, Scottish descent

Quotes

• Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

• I enjoy my life. The fame part of it freaked me out for a little while, and there are definitely times when it's not so great to be special and known by everybody — you know, when you're wearing the wrong thing, or just in a vulnerable place. But I'm good with my life now.

• There are two thoughts that will ensure success in all you do; (1) Don't tell everything you know, and (2) until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.
  • As quoted in Major in Success (2003) by Patrick Combs and Jack Canfield, p. 60

• You could spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future but all there will ever be is what's happening here and the decisions we make in this moments which are based in either love or fear. So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect so we never dared the universe for it. I'm saying I'm the proof that you can ask the universe for it. My father could have been a great comedian, but he didn't believe that that was