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| Ace Ventura: Pet Detective | |
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 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective poster |
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| Directed by | Tom Shadyac |
| Produced by | James G. Robinson |
| Written by | Jack Bernstein (story and screenplay) Tom Shadyac Jim Carrey (screenplay) |
| Starring | Jim Carrey Courteney Cox Sean Young Tone Loc Dan Marino |
| Music by | Ira Newborn |
| Cinematography | Julio Macat |
| Editing by | Don Zimmerman |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | February 4, 1994 |
| Running time | 86 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $11,000,000 |
| Followed by | Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls |
| IMDb • Allmovie | |
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is a 1994 American comedy film directed by Tom Shadyac and starring Jim Carrey. It co-stars Courteney Cox, Tone Loc, and Sean Young among others. Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino also portrays himself in a major role. This was Carrey's 14th film role.
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Ace Ventura (Jim Carrey) is a Pet Detective, who is employed by people to reunite lost or stolen pets with their owners.
At Joe Robbie Stadium (now Dolphin Stadium), the mascot of the Miami Dolphins, Snowflake, is kidnapped in the middle of the night, two weeks before the team is due to play the Super Bowl. Mr. Riddle, the team's owner, knows that football players can be superstitious, and therefore believes they will lose the Super Bowl unless Snowflake is returned. He gives his Head of Operations Roger Podacter (Troy Evans) and Chief Publicist Melissa Robinson (Courteney Cox) the deadline of Super Bowl Sunday to find Snowflake, or they will be fired. On the recommendation of the team secretary, Melissa contacts Ace. Ace meets Melissa and Podacter before entering the dolphin tank in search of clues. Ace then searches the filter and finds his first clue: a rare cut orange amber stone.
Ace attends a party of a prime suspect, Ronald Camp, to search a recently purchased tank for Snowflake. He finds a large tank full of water, but discovers that it contains a great white shark. On his way out of the party he eyes a ring on Camp's finger and discovers it has stones in it similar to the one he found in the tank. He theorizes that the stone, a rare triangular-shaped amber piece, had fallen from a 1984 AFC Championship Ring. Ace then tries to find out whose ring is missing a stone by tricking players into showing their rings until his list of suspects is used up.
Melissa and Ace later learn that Roger Podacter is dead. While trying to figure out how Podacter's death is connected to Snowflake's disappearance, Ace learns of a Dolphins' player named Ray Finkle, whom Ace has not investigated. Melissa explains that Ray Finkle was a star kicker who was added to the team mid-season, whereas the photograph that Ace has used as a reference was taken at the beginning of that season. Finkle had missed the potential game-winning field goal kick at the end of the Super Bowl game that year, losing to the San Francisco 49ers. After the season, Finkle received an AFC Championship ring, but his contract was not renewed.
Ace drives down to Finkle's hometown to meet the football player's parents at their home, which is defaced with anti-Dan Marino graffiti. Finkle's mother is senile, and his father is a suspicious, shotgun-wielding old man who confides to Ace that his son was put into a mental institution after his career ended. Ray Finkle's bedroom contains a shrine-like construction declaring the former resident's hate of Dan Marino, whom he blamed for the missed field goal. Ace realizes that Marino is likely to be in trouble and alerts Melissa to send help, but Marino is kidnapped before Melissa can respond.
Ace returns to Miami and lays out Finkle's motive to Lt. Einhorn. The hypothesis is that Finkle kidnapped Snowflake because the dolphin was assigned Finkle's jersey number 5 and taught how to kick a field goal, which Finkle took as an insult.
Searching for Ray Finkle, Ace enters Shady Acres, the mental hospital in Tampa from which Finkle escaped. Ace searches the storage room and finds a box of Finkle's belongings. Looking through it, he finds a newspaper article stating that Lois Einhorn was a missing hiker whose body was never recovered. Ace calls Emilio, who looks through Einhorn's desk, finding a love letter to Einhorn from Podacter. While trying to determine how Finkle and Einhorn were connected, Ace's dog puts his head down on a picture of Finkle, whereupon the dog's hair alters the image of Finkle's head, so that he looks like a woman. Looking at it, Ace realizes that the lieutenant is actually Ray Finkle posing as the deceased Lois Einhorn. Ace starts throwing up, burning clothes, and taking a long shower because he had kissed Einhorn, not knowing at the time she was a man.
Ace follows Einhorn to a warehouse by the docks, where both Snowflake and Marino are being held. He is caught by Einhorn, who immediately calls police to the docks. When the cops arrive to arrest Ace (on Einhorn's orders), Melissa and Emilio stop them. Ace explains Finkle's motive and that Einhorn is actually Finkle. After failing to find the usual anatomical proof by stripping Einhorn to her bra and panties, he finally sees her huge penis from behind, tucked between her legs and completely visible through the backend of her tight panties. The police force shocked that such an attractive women is actually a man and that they had kissed her begins spitting with disgust. Einhorn makes one last attempt to kill Ace, but is thrown into Snowflake's makeshift tank and exposed as the owner of the ring of the missing stone before being arrested.
The movie ends with Ace trying to capture the rare white bird at the beginning of the film worth 25 grand, when the Eagles mascot scares it away and Ace takes out his anger on the mascot by beating him senselessly.
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When aired in syndication, several scenes are either edited, or completely removed. To make up for this, several deleted scenes are added, such as, Ace posing as the official dolphin trainer to the press. This was included in the DVD. A short scene where Ace asks for directions to the pigskin sports bar, followed by a scene at the pigskin sports bar where Ace finds out where Finkle's parents live. Ace calls Emilio from the mental hospital, followed by a scene where Ace drops Melissa off at home. Ace visits his hippie friend again, followed by a scene where he gets up on stage with Cannibal Corpse. A short scene of Melissa being blamed for Marino's disappearance. Snowflake getting hold of Einhorn's gun.
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