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The movie showcased Jim Carrey's popularity and introduced the Farrelly brothers, inspiring endless memes and unforgettable quotes. The best Dumb and Dumber quotes still have fans laughing nearly 30 years after it was first released.
There's an abyss separating Dumb and Dumber and The Shining in tone and approach, but backstage facts unexpectedly link the two movies. During filming, Carrey reportedly stayed at The Stanley Hotel in Room 217.
“If Jim Carrey and the Farrelly Brothers want to do another ‘Dumb and Dumber,’ I’m in,” the two-time Emmy-winning actor told the L.A. Times in a video interview out Tuesday.
Jim Carrey plays Lloyd Christmas, and Lauren Holly plays his unrequited love interest in Mary Swanson. The two had initially met when Holly auditioned for Ace Ventura.
High on the list of moviegoing guilty pleasures is the Farrelly Brothers' 1994 hit Dumb and Dumber, the last of three films that year (after Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and The Mask) that catapulted Jim Carrey into the stratosphere of movie stardom.
With a long string of laugh-out-loud hits on his resume, including Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Dumb and Dumber, Liar Liar, and Bruce Almighty, Jim Carrey is probably the last guy who comes to mind when you think of big, bad movie villains.
On 23 September 1996, Carrey married his Dumb and Dumber co-star Lauren Holly; this second marriage lasted less than a year. From 1999 to 2000, Carrey was engaged to his Me, Myself and Irene co-star Renée Zellweger. In 2002, he was in a relationship with January Jones.
