Cameron Diaz was a model with no acting experience when she was cast in The Mask, and turned out to have genuine comic timing that the subsequent decade of romantic comedies used heavily.
There’s Something About Mary is the commercial and comic peak, and she is entirely willing to look ridiculous in it, which is the reason it works.
Being John Malkovich and Vanilla Sky show the other register, and she is unrecognisable in the first.
She retired from acting in 2014 to focus on other businesses, which she has described as a deliberate choice and not a decline in offers, and returned only recently.
Cameron DiazTwo women in unhappy relationships swap homes for Christmas across the Atlantic and find new romance during the holiday. The Holiday is Nancy Meyers's 2006 American-British romantic comedy depicting two women in unhappy relationships, an English country-newspaper columnist and an…
Cameron DiazTom Cruise psychological thriller. Substantial ambitions, uneven execution.
Amy YasbeckCarrey plays Stanley Ipkiss, a meek bank clerk in Edge City who finds an ancient Norse mask that, when worn, transforms him into a green-faced, zoot-suited cartoon character with reality-bending powers. The film is a Tex Avery cartoon translated into…
Cameron DiazBad Teacher is the R-rated comedy where Cameron Diaz plays a public middle school teacher who hates her students. Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky wrote, both veterans of the American version of The Office.
Antonio BanderasThe Shrek franchise consists of six feature productions across approximately twenty-one years of continuous DreamWorks production. The 2001 original is one of the great American animated films of the early twenty-first century and the production that established DreamWorks Animation as…
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