Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
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 Jim Carrey. The film co-stars Courteney Cox, Tone Loc, Sean Young, and then-Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino and features a cameo appearance from death metal band Cannibal Corpse.
Plot
Ace Ventura is an unorthodox Miami-based private detective who specializes in retrieving tame or captive animals. He struggles to pay his rent and is often mocked by the Miami Police Department, led by Lieutenant Lois Einhorn, who finds Ventura insufferable. Two weeks before the Super Bowl, the Miami Dolphins' mascot, a bottlenose dolphin named Snowflake, is kidnapped at Joe Robbie Stadium. Melissa Robinson, the team's chief publicist, hires Ventura to find Snowflake.
More details
| author | Jack Bernstein Jim Carrey Tom Shadyac |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Miami Miami metropolitan area |
| director | Tom Shadyac |
| editor | Don Zimmerman |
| events | revenge |
| genre | comedy crime mystery |
| keywords | 1984 afc championship abandon ace ventura arrest bottlenose dolphin claim collect discover end exotic animals fall held hostage hostage situation id joe robbie stadium jumbotron kidnap mascot mental hospital miami dolphins miami police department murder newspaper article old photograph penectomy philadelphia eagles plastic surgery police department police officer private detective rule scream snoop super bowl super bowl sunday super bowl xvii swoop vaginoplasty |
| musicBy | Ira Newborn |
| producer | James G. Robinson |
| productionCompany | Morgan Creek Productions |
| publisher | Warner Bros. |
| recordedAt | Florida |
| theme | crime comedy lgbt-related sports comedy |