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The Cable Guy
MEANRANK
60/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4035
- IMDb #4096
- Google retired #2677
- Rotten Tomatoes #3502
- Metacritic #2636
- Letterboxd #3672
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3518
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3928
- Metacritic Critics #2838
- Metacritic Audience #2193
- Criticker #3146
- Kinopoisk #2404
- AlloCiné #4042
- Trakt #4324
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Lowest is Criticker on 33, highest is Google on 80.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A single man orders cable installation from an eccentric and overly friendly technician. The installer becomes obsessively fixated on forming a friendship with his customer. What starts as an awkwardly enthusiastic overture quickly escalates into a terrifying and invasive campaign of stalking. The technician uses his knowledge of cable and satellite systems to manipulate and control the man's life, creating a claustrophobic sense of paranoia.
Details
- Director
- Ben Stiller
- Writers
- Ben Stiller, Judd Apatow, Lou Holtz Jr.
- Released
- 10 June 1996
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $47.0M
- Box office
- $102.8M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 2 nominations
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Awards & nominations
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| Kids' Choice Awards 1996 | Favorite Movie Actor | Jim Carrey | Winner |
| MTV Movie Awards 1996 | Best Comic Performance | Jim Carrey | Winner |
| MTV Movie Awards 1996 | Best Villain | Jim Carrey | Winner |
| MTV Movie Awards 1996 | Best Fight | Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick | Nominee |
| Stinkers Bad Movie Awards 1996 | Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy | Nominee |
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5 awards — The Cable Guy
×| Best Comic Performance | Jim Carrey | Winner |
| Best Villain | Jim Carrey | Winner |
| Best Fight | Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick | Nominee |
| Favorite Movie Actor | Jim Carrey | Winner |
| Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy | Nominee |