Tom Shadyac Archives

The Nutty Professor (1996)

Rating: ★★★½

Mar 11, 2000Personality Transformation Formula Comedy

Remake of the Jerry Lewis film is a comedic tour-de-force for Eddie Murphy as he swings between a shy 400 lb professor and a manic, testostoronally charged health junkie

Director: Tom Shadyac

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett, Dave Chappelle, Larry Miller, …

Category: Science Fiction

11 March 200022 January 2025 by Roog

Liar Liar (1997)

Rating: ★

Jan 16, 2005Man Cursed with a Truth-Telling Wish Comedy

A film with a children's movie premise - an amoral lawyer is forced to be honest for a day when his kid makes a wish - is over-taken by the rafter-rattling excesses of Jim Carrey in full OTT mode

Director: Tom Shadyac

Actors: Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Jennifer Tilly, Cary Elwes, …

Category: Fantasy

16 January 200528 December 2024 by Roog

Kevin Costner believes his late wife is trying to communicate with him. Comedy director Tom Shadyac makes his first serious film but it is so respectable and with all the horror element bled out of it as to be dull

Director: Tom Shadyac

Actors: Kevin Costner, Kathy Bates, Joe Morton, Jacob Vargas, …

Category: Horror

14 June 200214 October 2025 by Roog

Bruce Almighty (2003)

Rating: ★

Jul 8, 2003Man Gains Godlike Powers Comedy

Comedy in which God appears to Jim Carrey and grants him His powers for one week. Expectedly the film is of zero theological depth and all about Carrey going completely over-the-top

Director: Tom Shadyac

Actors: Jim Carrey, Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Aniston, Steve Carell, …

Category: Fantasy

8 July 200321 May 2020 by Roog

Evan Almighty (2007)

Rating: ★

Sep 23, 2007Modern-Day Noah's Ark Comedy

Sequel to Bruce Almighty in which Steve Carell is transformed into a modern-day Noah. This was pitched to the Christian audiences but feels like a series of lame gags playing on Noah and the Ark devoid of any biblical context

Director: Tom Shadyac

Actors: Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham, John Goodman, …

Category: Fantasy

23 September 200719 October 2025 by Roog

Tom Shadyac

The Nutty Professor (1996)

Liar Liar (1997)

Dragonfly (2002)

Bruce Almighty (2003)

Evan Almighty (2007)

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