This is the latest instalment in our From the Vault feature series, in which we reflect on culturally significant movies celebrating notable anniversaries.
Thirty years ago, Jim Carrey was arguably the most bankable comedy star on the planet.
Hot off four consecutive smash hits – The Mask, Dumb and Dumber, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls and Batman Forever – he gambled his mainstream appeal on a film that would drastically alter his career trajectory, paving the way for the mature complexities of The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Directed by Ben Stiller (Reality Bites) from a script by first-timer Lou Holtz Jnr, The Cable Guy is a manic cringe-com of surprising darkness that sees Carrey’s crazed cable company employee Chip Douglas befriending, and then tormenting, Matthew Broderick’s newly single loser Steven Kovacs.
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