Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz lit the world on fire when they teamed up for 1994's The Mask. Carrey was never better and Diaz never more glamourous. Trust me... this movie was on a continuous loop for a few years in my household. In recent years, both of their careers have lagged.
And what better way to try to reinvigorate both careers than another team-up? The Hollywood Reporter says that the two will pair again for Focus Pictures' A Little Game Without Consequence, in which a married couple decides to play a trick on their friends by pretending to break up, only to have it backfire when they find out that all of their friends support the decision and think they are much better off without each other.
Sounds a little thin, plot-wise, but that's what they're calling comedy these days, I guess. What I find more interesting is that the screenplay is being written by Allan Loeb, who also wrote Things We Lost in the Fire, my pet peeve movie about Halle Berry shacking up with her dead husband's friend, Benicio Del Toro, to help her family get over their grief.
Hmm... is anyone else beginning to sense that Mr. Loeb has issues? I don't know if his marriage is on the rocks, or his parents divorced when he was a kid, but he's obviously going through some cathartic, public form of therapy or something. Makes me wonder if I'm going to be seeing MY story up on screen someday after one of my kids becomes a Hollywood writer.
Hey, as long as I'm played by someone hot like Halle or Cameron, I guess I can deal.
