The Cable Guy

A lonely and disturbed cable guy raised on television just wants a new friend, but his target, a designer, rejects him, with bad consequences.

• Director:Ben Stiller
• Genre:Comedy / Drama / Thriller
• Runtime:88 minutes

Cast

Jim Carrey : The Cable Guy
Matthew Broderick: Steven M. Kovacs
Leslie Mann : Robin Harris
Jack Black : Rick
George Segal : Steven’s Father

A TV-obsessed cable installer, who gives his name as Ernie “Chip” Douglas (Jim Carrey), installs Steven Kovacs’ (Matthew Broderick) cable television service after Steven moves out of the apartment he shared with his girlfriend Robin (Leslie Mann). After he illegally gives Steven free pay channels, Chip believes he and Steven have struck up a friendship. Chip takes Steven to a satellite and gives him advice about how to win back Robin. Chip tells Steven to invite Robin to his house to watch a movie with him. Steven does so and successfully invites Robin to his house. Chip begins to bombard Steven with calls but Steven does not respond to them. When Robin goes to Stevens house to watch the movie they find the cable has gone out. Chip reveals that he turned off the cable because Steven wasn’t answering him. Chip turns on Stevens cable in exchange for him and Steven to hang out the next night.

Chip takes Steven to Medieval times grill where he arranges a fight between him and Steven. Chip appears to fight much more brutally then Steven. Steven however wins and the friendship between them strengthen. When they return home Steven finds that Chip has installed a full entertainment system into his house. Chip arranges a Karaoke party at Stevens house. During the party Steven has sex with a woman whom he believes is one of Chips customers. However he finds out the next morning that the woman is actually a prostitute that Chip hired. Angered Steven expels Chip from his life. Chip try’s to make it up to Steven by getting Robin back with him. Chip beats up Robins date (Owen Wilson) and is able to convince her to return to Steven. Chip tells Steven of what he has done but Steven tells Chip that he has no room in his life for another friend causing the latter man to snap. Chip resorts to stalking Steven and Robin to get the attention he feels he deserves.

First, Chip has the police arrest Steven at work for having possession of the stolen entertainment system, but Steven gets out on bail. The aftermath of this incident prompts Steven’s close friend Rick (Jack Black), who has had a deep suspicion of Chip from the beginning, to look into Chip’s background. Chip later threatens to blackmail Steven by showing Robin a picture he took of Steven with the prostitute while having dinner at Steven’s parents house, but fails after Steven punches Chip in the face in front of everyone else in the house after Chip hints quietly in Steven’s ear via playing a game called “Porno Password” that he has slept with Robin. The next day, Chip leaks a video of Steven with Robin with him insulting his boss to all of the computers at his office. Steven ends up getting fired as a result. After returning home, Rick calls Steven and tells him he found evidence of Chip’s past. Rick says that Chip uses aliases from TV shows such as Bewitched to conceal his identity and has been previously fired from the cable company for stalking his customers. Rick insists that Steven should lock himself up in his house to avoid Chip at all costs. That night, Steven gets another phone call from Chip, who says he is going ‘out’ with Robin, but does not mention where. Read more

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