Yes Man (2008) on Netflix
Carl Allen, a loan officer, has become withdrawn since his divorce from Stephanie and ignores his friends. A seminar and guru Terrence push him into a covenant to say yes to everything.
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Plot summary
The banker Carl Allen is a lonely man with low self-esteem after his divorce with Stephanie, for whom he still yearns. He avoids his best friend Peter. He has a boring job, stalled in a bureaucratic position in the loan department of a bank; and he spends his spare time watching DVDs. When he meets by chance his former high school mate Nick, he is convinced to participate of a self-help program called "Yes Man" leaded by the guru Terrence Bundley. The basic principle of the program is to say "yes" to new situations, leaving the negativism aside. Carl misunderstands the concept and says "yes" to every question. While leaving the encounter, he helps a homeless man and in the end of the night he meets the gorgeous Allison that helps him with her scooter. His life completely changes with his new attitude.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Yes Man (2008)
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- Jim Carrey broke three ribs while filming a bar scene in which his character spins into a waitress and falls backward, executing the stunt incorrectly and hitting the floor harder than expected.
- Jim Carrey turned down an upfront salary for Yes Man, instead agreeing to take 36.2% of the film's gross once its production and marketing costs were recovered.
- During the shoot, Jim Carrey insisted on personally performing his character's bridge bungee jump himself rather than use a stunt double, telling the stunt double beforehand that he meant to do it in a single take.
- Jim Carrey said learning the basic guitar chords was maybe the most challenging part of any movie he had worked on in his career; after the final date of filming he “retired” his set guitar, and Zooey Deschanel kept it.
- The band Von Iva got the part of the fictional ensemble in the film after the movie's music supervisor, Jonathan Karp, saw the cover of their CD in Amoeba in Hollywood.
