However, he reveals himself while Terrence is driving, startling him and causing an oncoming vehicle to collide with them. After Carl emphatically says no, his luck takes a turn for the worse.ĭeciding he must end the covenant, Carl returns to the convention centre and hides in the backseat of Terrence's convertible so he can be released. When he goes to her apartment to comfort her, she kisses him and asks him to spend the night with her. After the party Carl receives a tearful phone call from Stephanie, whose new boyfriend has walked out on her. He manages to arrange a major surprise party, as well as set up Norman and Rooney with Soo-Mi and Tillie respectively. Deciding that she can no longer trust him, she leaves Carl and refuses to return his phone calls.Ĭarl's life takes a turn for the worse and he almost forgets about Lucy's shower. She begins to doubt whether his commitment to her was ever sincere. Peter travels to Nebraska as Carl's attorney and explains the situation, revealing the truth to Allison at the same time. While checking in for the return flight, Carl and Allison are detained by FBI agents who, due to various coincidences in Carl's recent behaviour, have profiled him as a potential terrorist. Allison confesses her love for Carl and asks him to move in with her and he hesitantly agrees. Having decided to take the first plane out of town, regardless of its destination, they end up in Lincoln, Nebraska, where they bond more. He earns a corporate promotion at work and, making use of his guitar lessons, plays Third Eye Blind's song " Jumper" to persuade a man not to commit suicide.Ĭarl and Allison meet at the airport for a spontaneous weekend excursion. He is charmed by her quirkiness she is delighted by his spontaneity and they begin dating. Accepting a band flyer outside of a coffee shop, he sees an idiosyncratic band called Munchausen by Proxy the lead singer is Allison. He renews his friendships with Peter and Rooney builds a bond with his nerdy boss, Norman assists Peter's fiancée, Lucy, with her bridal shower attends Korean language classes and much more. A few days later he is offered oral sex by his elderly neighbour Tillie in return for helping her put up shelves when he refuses and immediately experiences bad luck he returns and surprisingly enjoys the moment.īelieving that he must say "yes" or suffer the consequences, Carl starts to seize every opportunity that comes his way. She gives him a ride back to his car on her scooter and kisses him before leaving. Disillusioned, he hikes to a nearby gas station where he meets Allison, an unorthodox young woman. Later, Carl says yes to a homeless man's request and is stranded out-of-gas and with no battery on his cell phone in Elysian Park. On the advice of an old colleague, Nick, Carl attends a motivational seminar that encourages people to seize the opportunity to say "Yes!" At the seminar, Carl meets inspirational guru Terrence, who tells him to enter a "covenant with the universe" and say yes to anything asked of him. He has an increasingly negative outlook on his life and routinely ignores his friends Peter and Rooney. The film received mixed reviews from critics, but was a box office success, making $223 million worldwide.Ĭarl Allen, a bank loan officer, has become withdrawn since his divorce from Stephanie. It was released on Decemin the United States and was then released in the United Kingdom on December 26, 2008. Production for the film began in Los Angeles in October 2007. The film is based loosely on the 2005 memoir of the same name by humorist Danny Wallace, who also makes a cameo appearance in the film. Yes Man is a 2008 American romantic comedy film directed by Peyton Reed, written by Nicholas Stoller, Jarrad Paul, and Andrew Mogel and starring Jim Carrey and co-starring Zooey Deschanel.
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