Jim Carrey Shed His Trademark Wildness for This Overlooked Frank Darabont Drama With 'Shawshank' Vibes

Jim Carrey is undeniably one of film's most gifted comedic performers. He established himself as the preeminent lovable goofball in blockbuster comedies like Ace Ventura, The Mask, and Dumb and Dumber during the 90s. So we get that audiences want as much of that version of Jim Carrey as possible, but the versatile actor has taken some dramatic roles that get overlooked because viewers may not have been ready for them. The rubbery-faced genius of the laugh genre had already made a move toward more serious roles when he joined a stacked cast in the Oscar-nominated epic The Truman Show in 1998.