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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 ...
Then there's welfare reform, whose two basic assumptions are that endless work at wages too meager to live on is morally uplifting and that single mothers are causing all of society's problems.
In the meantime, we can take only meager pride in achieving a society in which interracial marriage is safe, legal and, alas, rare.
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How to explain the meager play the announcement gets?
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