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Warner Bros. Pictures
details
Studio: Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group
Release Date: Jun 14, 1996
Running Time: 91 mins.
Running Time: 96 mins. (video version)
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
It's a time-honored urban ritual: Slip the cable guy fifty bucks and you'll get all the movie channels for free. But when Steven Kovacs moves into a new apartment, his Cable Guy is not like the others. He doesn't want your fifty bucks; all he wants is a friend... and he won't take no for an answer. Steven is about to learn that there's no such thing as free cable.
cast + crew
Director
Cable Guy
Steven
Robin
Rick
Steven's Father
Steven's Mother
Sam Sweet
Eric Roberts
Medieval Waitress
Medieval Host
Screenplay
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Producer
Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Co-Producer
reviews
December 8, 2000
The Cable Guy738/39 7/11-25/96
Give Jim Carrey top grades for balls-out audacity -- even if the movie's execution makes him look like a dunce. Carrey, the self-proclaimed "highest-paid megalomaniacal boy king in the whole of Babylon," could keep earning $20 million a flick by playing variations on Ace Ventura until he ground his career into dead ash. Instead he offers the Dumb and Dumber crowd a walk on the dark side. No sooner has Carrey's Chip Douglas cable-readied the bachelor apartment of
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