Page One: “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” (1994)

Screenplay by Tom Shadyac, Jim Carrey, story by Jack Bernstein

Clearly, Jim Carrey improvised several “assaults” upon the unfortunate UPS box … over and over and over again. Milk the humor!

You can read the screenplay here.

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