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Jim Carrey’s Bruce Nolan is a TV reporter stuck doing wacky human-interest stories in Buffalo. When he discovers, while he’s on the air, that his credit-stealing rival has snagged the promotion he expected, Bruce has an on-air meltdown that gets him fired. And when he rails at the Lord, God (Morgan Freeman) responds, inviting him to see whether he can any better as Supreme Being. Accorded omnipotence, Bruce uses his powers to become the most popular news anchor in Buffalo, gets girlfriend Jennifer Aniston bigger boobs, and train his dog to use the toilet. The film has no grand theological statement to impart, no great moral issues to chew over — even It’s a Wonderful Life, which it alludes to a couple of times, has a more complex eschatology. Still, Freeman makes the most reassuring — and the funniest — film God since Ralph Richardson in Time Bandits. Carrey also cuts loose, in a way he hasn’t done for a long time, and the effect is similarly liberating. For Carrey and director Tom Shadyac, that may be the real message of the film. (94m)
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