The Cable Guy (In-Depth Study on Themes and Characters)
(Stars: Jim Carrey, Mathew Broderick, Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Owen Wilson, and Leslie Mann)
Producer(s) Judd Apatow, Andrew Licht, Jeffery A. Mueller
The Cable Guy is about the pervasiveness of media in a post-modern world. It is an exploration of anti-social tendencies, and a meditation on the disintegration of the nuclear family - after the fall of the USSR, and the subsequent end of the cold war.
This is the first role that Jim Carrey chose to step outside his comfort zone, playing Chip Douglas - a character that is more disconcerting than funny. Although he does provide some comic relief – on the whole Carrey's performance is more akin to a stalker in a psychological-thriller, a la` Single White Female (1992) or The Roommate (2011) [1]
