Yes Man


Yes Man stars Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel. At the beginning of this movie, Los Angeles bank employee Carl Allen (Carrey) is a guy whose life seems to be stuck in a rut. His spare time is always spent watching DVD's alone in his apartment, and he has apparently been this way ever since his ex divorced him three years ago. One day, after getting off of work, one of his friends tells him to attend a "Yes" seminar. After another one of his friends warns him he will end up alone forever if he does not change, Carl decides to go to the seminar. After this, he makes a promise to himself that he will say "yes" to every opportunity that presents itself thereafter. He starts by driving a homeless person to the woods, letting him talk on his cell phone, and giving him all of his money. After this ordeal, Carl finds his car has run out of gasoline, and when he fills up a plastic container at the nearest gas station, he meets Allison (Deschanel), who is filling up her scooter at the time. She takes his picture and offers to give him a lift back to his car, which of course, he accepts. Carl and Allison share a kiss after she drops him off, and Allison later becomes his girlfriend after he sees her band play, thanks to her band's promoter offering Carl tickets. Carl quickly finds Allison is quite the opposite of what he was before the "yes" program: Allison tries to live her life spontaneously, which only makes Carl fall for her more. Saying "yes" pays off for Carl in other ways as well: he approves almost every loan that comes his way at the bank, including many small loans, which actually significantly increase the bank's cash flow and land Carl a job with the big boys; he takes guitar lessons, which come in handy later when he uses a guitar to "talk down" a jumper.

Unfortunately, the bad side of this is that some of the opportunities Carl says "yes" to create suspicion from the U.S. government that he may be a terrorist, namely his and Allison's spontaneous vacations, his flying lessons, him learning Korean, his approval of a loan to a fertilizer company (which could have been used to create a bomb), and his Iranian mail order bride. Carl's lawyer and best friend explains to the government agents that his actions are a result of the "yes" program, but Allison takes this the wrong way, and she wonders whether or not Carl is genuinely in love with her or if he is just following a program. Carl, of course, is really in love with Allison, but she now won't return his phone calls. Carl also experiences a string of bad luck after he finally says "no" to an opportunity to return to his ex, and he begs the motivational speaker at the "yes" seminar to remove his "covenant," only to find out there never was one, and the whole purpose was to open one up to new experiences in life, not to force one to say "yes" to everything because one has to.

Yes Man Sound ClipFile Name / Clip Length / File Size
"...I know there's a thing"thing.wav / 0:06 / 23.9 Kb
"...There is this guy who looks just like me..."notme.wav / 0:19 / 76.4 Kb
"...It's been three years; you can't leave every time she comes around..."stephanie.wav / 0:14 / 55.3 Kb
"...Time is of the essence"time.wav / 0:05 / 20.9 Kb
"...I meant yes to your no"yesno.wav / 0:06 / 26.6 Kb
"...You're a soldier on the frontline of finance"soldier.wav / 0:06 / 25.6 Kb
"...You were committed to saying what you were saying regardless of what I was going to say"sametime.wav / 0:18 / 72.6 Kb
"...Do you want to throw that rock at the bank? YES"rock.wav / 0:10 / 39.5 Kb
Carl doesn't look much different dead than he does alive?aliveordead.wav / 0:14 / 55.6 Kb
"...You can't audit life, my friend"auditing.wav / 0:08 / 34.2 Kb
"...Terrence will come to the molehill"molehill.wav / 0:07 / 28.4 Kb
"...You say no to life, and therefore, you're not living"dead.wav / 0:04 / 18.8 Kb
"...I didn't realize we just stepped out of a 'maybe' seminar"maybe.wav / 0:06 / 25.9 Kb
"...Why don't you take a late night stroll through the hills and get killed by the Manson family? Don't mind if I do"dontmind.wav / 0:14 / 56.6 Kb
"...I take it that's what happened to you. No, why would you assume that?"outofgas.wav / 0:18 / 71.7 Kb
"...If we crash, at least I'll die..."faster.wav / 0:10 / 41.3 Kb
Is Carl a four wheeler or two wheeler guy?4wheeler.wav / 0:06 / 24.4 Kb
"Nothing I like better than the inside of a bank on a beautiful Saturday..."magical.wav / 0:07 / 28.0 Kb
"...Let's hope it doesn't taste like Mickey Rourke"mrourke.wav / 0:11 / 44.3 Kb
Norman (Carl's boss) and Carl give each other nicknamesnormcar.wav / 0:13 / 51.4 Kb
"...You guys are really into this yes thing"intoyes.wav / 0:07 / 28.6 Kb
"...Maybe you need to start being the right guy. That's why you got punched out..."wrongguy.wav / 0:09 / 36.3 Kb
"...I don't know if I'm going to be able to say yes to this one, Til"release.wav / 0:22 / 87.3 Kb
Carl is learning to speak Koreankorean.wav / 0:09 / 37.6 Kb
"...He helped me erase your Myspace page..."hacker.wav / 0:11 / 44.5 Kb
"...Your new living room furniture looks great from the yard"stalking.wav / 0:06 / 23.7 Kb
Carl asks Allison to go out with himnudemodel.wav / 0:10 / 40.0 Kb
"I had a couple Red Bulls..."redbull.wav / 0:04 / 19.5 Kb
"I like to keep it fresh..."fresh.wav / 0:03 / 14.5 Kb
"I never would have met Allison if I hadn't said yes..."hadntsaidyes.wav / 0:08 / 31.8 Kb
Carl and Allison sing part of "Can't Buy Me Love" from the Beatlescbml.wav / 0:21 / 82.2 Kb
"Good evening, Los Angeles..."goodeveningla.wav / 0:11 / 46.3 Kb
"The world's a playground..."playground.wav / 0:05 / 22.4 Kb
"...All right, I can't please everyone"runfreeze.wav / 0:09 / 38.8 Kb
"...I would if I could, so why wouldn't you?"raidcoffers.wav / 0:05 / 21.5 Kb
Carl says "Someone's trying to kill himself," in Koreankillself.wav / 0:05 / 20.3 Kb
Carl sings (and plays guitar on) the beginning of "Jumper" from Third Eye Blindjumper.wav / 0:26 / 104 Kb
"...I asked Carl, and he had to say yes"livehere.wav / 0:04 / 19.4 Kb
Carl's surprised that Allison asks him to let her live with himmovein.wav / 0:23 / 90.7 Kb
U.S. government agents suspect Carl of being a terroristterrorist.wav / 0:28 / 112 Kb
"...I thought you lie all the time, but it's just sometimes..."sometimes.wav / 0:10 / 42.7 Kb
"...Maybe things get screwed up because you said yes to every single thing without thinking..."brokecovenant.wav / 0:20 / 78.8 Kb
Allison insults Carl for coming to her band's showjumpoffbridge.wav / 0:14 / 55.1 Kb
"...Not because I have to. Well, you do have to..."haveto.wav / 0:08 / 34.4 Kb
Carl finally says "no" once again (to getting back together with Stephanie, his ex-wife)no.wav / 0:10 / 41.5 Kb
"Terrence, you have to remove the covenant. It's killing me"covenant.wav / 0:03 / 14.3 Kb
Terrence (the "yes" motivational speaker) explains the real point of the "yes" thingyes.wav / 0:23 / 92.3 Kb
"...You didn't say that. I did say that..."saythat.wav / 0:05 / 20.5 Kb
"I just wanted to tell you that I don't want to live with you..."knight.wav / 0:06 / 24.5 Kb
"...You can say no if you don't want to. Oh, brilliant, Carl, where did you get that, your literature?..."cansayno.wav / 0:23 / 91.7 Kb
"...Let's be scared together"scared.wav / 0:10 / 42.3 Kb
"...What if I'm one of those chickens..."chicken.wav / 0:06 / 26.1 Kb

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