Bruce Almighty

Bruce Almighty is a 2003 American fantasy comedy film directed by Tom Shadyac, written by Steve Koren, Mark OKeefe and Steve Oedekerk and stars Jim Carrey as Bruce Nolan, a downonhisluck TV reporter who complains to God Morgan Freeman that he is not doing his job correctly, and is offered the chance to try being God himself for one week. This is Shadyac and Carreys third collaboration, having previously worked together on Ace Ventura Pet Detective in 1994 and Liar Liar in 1997. When released in American theaters in May 2003, it took thespot at the box office, grossing 85.89 millionhigher than the release of Pearl Harbor, making it the secondhighestrated Memorial Day weekend opening of any film in motion picture history until the release of XMen The Last Stand in 2006. The movie surprised media analysts when it beat The Matrix Reloaded after its first week of release. By the time it left theaters in December 2003, it took in a United States domestic total of over 242 million and 484 million worldwide.

Bruce Almighty received mixed reviews from critics. The film has a score of 48 on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 184 reviews, with an average rating of 5.610. The sites critical consensus reads, Carrey is hilarious in the slapstick scenes, but Bruce Almighty gets bogged down in treacle. The film also has a score of 46 out of 100 on Metacritic, based oncritics, indicating mixed or average reviews.The film was banned in Egypt due to pressure from Muslims who objected to the portrayal of God as a visually ordinary man. Bans in both Malaysia and Egypt were eventually lifted after the Censorship Board gave it the 18PL rating suitable for adult viewers only for a combination of two or more of the given parental ratings. Also, since God contacts Bruce using an actual phone number rather than a number in the standard fictional 555 telephone exchange, several people and groups sharing this number subsequently received hundreds of phone calls from people wanting to talk to God including a church in North Carolina and a Pastor in Northern Wisconsin. The producers noted that the number 7762323 was not in use in the area code 716, which was never specified on screen in the films story but did not check anywhere else. The home video and television versions changed it to the fictional 5550123. ........

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