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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
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Jim Carrey as Ace Ventura stands in a cluttered room wearing a colorful shirt and red striped pants, holding parrots and a monkey, with animals perched on his arms and head.
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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

film by Shadyac [1994]
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    …scored an immediate hit with Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and had continued box-office success with Dumb and Dumber and The Mask (all 1994). In the latter film Carrey played a timid bank clerk who becomes a hip wisecracking green-faced dandy when he dons a magical mask. His performance earned Carrey…

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