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By Neil Jeffries (18) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 01 Jan 2000

The mix of light comedy and really quite dark themes proved too much for many viewers, but this is worth a look for Broderick's performance…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 01 Jan 2000

If I'd known beforehand that Ben Stiller directed The Cable Guy, I might have been more excited by the prospect of seeing it…

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By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 01 Jan 2000

The Cable Guy is being marketed as a dark comedy, which I suppose it is, to some extent. Honestly, though, it's just not dark enough…

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By Jeff Vice (1,455) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 01 Jan 2000

Holtz's screenplay, though, wants to be Rosemary's Baby meets The Odd Couple…

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By Mike Clark (1,024) for USA Today (4,117) on 01 Jan 2000

Ben Stiller can't distill the darkness, slapstick and fantasy into a consistent directorial tone, but the leads' expert give-and-take make…

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By Scott Renshaw (514) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 01 Jan 2000

A deeply conflicted film, part character-driven black comedy and part Carrey-run-amok goof-off, fitfully funny and often frustrating…

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By Christopher Null (908) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 01 Jan 2000

This is certainly Carrey's best movie, but that isn't saying a lot…

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By Barbara Shulgasser (553) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 01 Jan 2000

Broderick is perfectly adorable here. His outstanding normality is the only possible counterpoint to Carrey's hypervolubility…

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By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Jul 1998

The director, who intermittently shows up on Steven’s television as Stan and Sam Sweet, a hybrid of O.J…

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By Desson Thomson (1,673) for Washington Post (9,851) on 22 Feb 1998

To watch Carrey leering with joy at the prospect of making respectable people guess dirty words, and Broderick trying to avoid the whole thing,…

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By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 05 Dec 1996

In all, about a third of the film (most of it contained in three extended sequences) is audaciously funny and genuinely disturbing…

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