The Cable Guy (1996)

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Johan

Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Johan," which follows Johan is the eleventh male child in a family of soccer players. The boys make up a complete team, but Johan would rather be a singing than play sports.

Studio: Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: Jun 14, 1996

Running Time: 91 mins.

Running Time: 96 mins. (video version)

Country Of Origin: United States

starring:

Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick, Leslie Mann, Jack Black, George Segal, Diane Baker, Ben Stiller, Eric Roberts, Janeane Garofalo, Andy Dick

director:

Ben Stiller

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.

December 8, 2000

The Cable Guy

738/39 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…