Bruce Almighty

3.00
    Bruce Almighty
    2003

    Synopsis

    Bruce Nolan toils as a "human interest" television reporter in Buffalo, NY, but despite his high ratings and the love of his beautiful girlfriend, Bruce remains unfulfilled. At the end of the worst day in his life, he angrily ridicules God - and the Almighty responds, endowing Bruce with all of His divine powers.

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    Cast

    • Jim CarreyBruce Nolan
    • Morgan FreemanGod
    • Jennifer AnistonGrace Connelly
    • Philip Baker HallJack Baylor
    • Catherine BellSusan Ortega
    • Lisa Ann WalterDebbie
    • Steve CarellEvan Baxter
    • Nora DunnAlly Loman
    • Eddie JemisonBobby
    • Paul SatterfieldDallas Coleman

    Recommendations

    • 80

      Washington Post

      Carrey is so gifted a physical comedian that even mediocre material shines in his talented hands, not to mention his talented feet, face, elbows, ears, hair and, ahem, derriere.
    • 75

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Aniston, as a sweet kindergarten teacher and fiancee, shows again (after "The Good Girl") that she really will have a movie career.
    • 75

      Philadelphia Inquirer

      A diverting comedy that in its last act becomes unusually sober. While the film both explicitly and implicitly pays tribute to Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life," the upshift from irreverent slapstick to reverent sermonette is extremely abrupt.
    • 75

      USA Today

      Everyone is well cast and no one more perfectly than Freeman, who is far more God-like than George Burns ever was. Freeman's God is wise, humble, wry, patient and funny but never mean-spirited.
    • 75

      New York Daily News

      When Carrey is doing his thing as the Almighty, histrionically whipping up one miracle after another and relishing the power, "Bruce" has you spring-cleaning your lungs with laughter. But you are made to pay for it with a third-act sap-rising that's as thick as the final reels of "Patch Adams."
    • 58

      Seattle Post-Intelligencer

      The movie is mainly an excuse to display special-effects gags in the form of the various miracles manifested -- some of which are highly imaginative, some of which aren't.
    • 50

      Christian Science Monitor

      The screenplay doesn't ultimately make much sense. Carrey is a unique comic talent, though, and Freeman and Aniston back him up with such sensitive supporting performances that the film almost works if you can suspend enough disbelief to swallow its fantastic premise.
    • 50

      New York Post

      The actors don't seem to have been directed at all, and the movie is very sluggishly paced.

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