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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is a 1994 American comedy film starring Jim Carrey as Ace Ventura, an animal detective who is tasked with finding the abducted dolphin mascot of the Miami Dolphins football team. The film was directed by Tom Shadyac, who wrote the screenplay with Jack Bernstein and Carrey.
Ace was performed by Jim Carrey in the films Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, released in 1994, and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, released in 1995, and was voiced by Michael Daingerfield in the Ace Ventura: Pet Detective television series.
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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective: Directed by Tom Shadyac. With Jim Carrey, Courteney Cox, Sean Young, Tone Loc. A goofy detective specializing in animals goes in search of the missing mascot of the Miami Dolphins.
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Ace is a Miami-based private detective specializing in the retrieval of missing animals. He is the son of Rex Ventura and an unnamed mother. Ace is the descendant of Ernest Shackleton Ventura and Jacques Cousteau Ventura. His eccentricities make him a laughing stock to the Miami Dade Police Department in the early part of the film, but later earned...
By the events portrayed in Ace Ventura Jr.: Pet Detective, it is established that after resolving his case in Africa, Ace returned to Miami and started a family. He married Melissa and they had a son, Jr., but Ace has disappeared somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle, and never appears in the film itself. However, Ace Jr. inherited his ability to disce...
Ace is an eccentric self-styled "pet detective" who forsook regular police work to concentrate on this latter pursuit. Like other fictional detectives, he is notable for extraordinary powers of observation and deduction: he also possesses the ability to "understand" animals, and on at least one occasion, he has managed to escape being shot by catch...
The character of Ace Ventura was the first character that Jim Carrey portrayed more than once in film and would remain the only one until reprising the character of Lloyd in the Dumb and Dumber franchise in 2014. While he did like When Nature Calls and thoroughly enjoyed its production, Carrey felt that it didn’t challenge him enough as an actor no...
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Feb 4, 1994 · Tom Shadyac. Director, Screenplay. Jack Bernstein. Screenplay, Story. Jim Carrey. Screenplay. Written by Filipe Manuel Neto on August 3, 2023. He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino.
Feb 4, 2019 · In honor of the 25th anniversary of 'Ace Ventura: Pet Detective' see what stars Jim Carrey, Courteney Cox, Sean Young and others have been up to since the movie about the search for the...
