The Cable Guy

Chip (Jim Carrey) is a lonely, disturbed cable guy who was raised on television with no social skill to connect him to the real world. One day, he tries to become friends with one of clients, the designer Steven Kovacs (Matthew Broderick) but he rejects him. This action will have serious consequences in the life of Kovacs who begins to be persecuted by Chip.

Duration: 96
Production year: 1996
Country: United States of America
Subtitles: EN, Subtitles: PT

Kids Choice Awards 1997 - Favorite Actor (Jim Carrey)
MTV Awards for Film and Television 1997 - Best Actor (Jim Carrey), Best Comedy Performance (Jim Carrey)

Ben Stiller

Benjamin Stiller was born in 1965, in New York. His parents are the American comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara and, from a very young age, Stiller was very connected to the world of Cinema and Comedy.

After dropping out of UCLA, Ben started to dedicate himself to acting, first in television and, after that, in cinema. During the 80s and 90s he solidified his place as one of the best comedian actors of his time and won several national and international awards.

He made his directorial debut with Reality Bites (2014), a movie that was a huge success in the Sundance Film Festival of that year. Since then, he has directed numerous successes such as The Cable Guy (2001),Tropic Thunder (2008), or The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013).

Original title: The Cable Guy

Ben Stiller

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