Jim Carrey had starred in a few movies during the 1980s, like Francis Ford Coppola’s Peggy Sue Got Married and the goofy comedy Earth Girls Are Easy, but once he asserted himself with the sketch show In Living Colour, he went straight to the Hollywood big leagues with a string of hits that all came at once. As soon as the show ended, Carrey popped up in three major comedies, all released in 1994, the first of which was his co-written venture Ace…