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Shopping is so varied that even the most meager allowance funds a spending spree.
A 1994 survey by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international association of market economies, found "remarkably meager support for the hypothesis that such programs are effective."
Carrey, playing a sleazy lawyer forced to tell the truth for a day, "removes the rubber nose and plays a realistic human being" (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). But the film still relies on Carrey's "kamikaze elan" to overcome its meager premise ("[a] one joke movie"--Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). And The New Yorker 's Anthony Lane says director Tom Shadyac ( The Nutty Professor ) blunders in choosing, midfilm, "to calm down the proceedings, [so that] our poor hero is reduced to saying therapeutic things like ...
--I believe we've got American church attendance down to 90 percent and representation in the Senate to a meager 95 percent.
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