1. “One has to take chances with one's life. And the chances don't come when you say no to everything, when you close doors” –David Heyman, producer YES MAN Cast, Crew, Story, Theme, Review Muse-En-Scene, Life Connections

2. Carl Allen is a guy whose life is going nowhere—the operative word being "no"—until he signs up for a self-help program based on one simple covenant: say yes to everything...and anything. Unleashing the power of "YES" begins to transform Carl's life in amazing and unexpected ways. But his willingness to embrace every opportunity might just become too much of a good thing. MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for crude sexual humor, language and brief nudity) YES ©2008 Warner Bros. Pictures. Review © David Bruce

3. JIM CARREY (Carl Allen) JIM CARREY (Carl Allen)  Carl Allen is an everyman  Carl is a man in a rut  Carl is a normal guy who just needs a jump start YES ©2008 Warner Bros. Pictures. Review © David Bruce

4. ZOOEY DESCHANEL (Allison) ZOOEY DESCHANEL (Allison)  Allison is a free-spirited girl, cool and in a band  Allison is creative and spontaneous  Allison's is what Carl is striving to become YES ©2008 Warner Bros. Pictures. Review © David Bruce

5. BRADLEY COOPER (Peter) BRADLEY COOPER (Peter)  Peter is Carl's best friend  Peter is repeatedly frustrated by Carl's refusals to take part in life more than two years after his divorce  But Peter is always there for Carl YES ©2008 Warner Bros. Pictures. Review © David Bruce

6. PEYTON REED (Director) PEYTON REED (Director)  His feature directorial debut was "Bring It On" starring Kirsten Dunst  He also helmed "The Break- Up," starring Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston YES ©2008 Warner Bros. Pictures. Review © David Bruce

7. Producer: RICHARD D. ZANUCK Producer: DAVID HEYMAN Screenwriters: NICHOLAS STOLLER, JARRAD PAUL & ANDREW MOGEL Director of Photography: ROBERT YEOMAN YES ©2008 Warner Bros. Pictures. Review © David Bruce

8. Jim Carrey declined an upfront salary for this film. Instead he will be paid a percentage of the film's profits. Jack Black was originally considered for the lead role. YES ©2008 Warner Bros. Pictures. Review © David Bruce

9. Carl Allen is in a rut. When he's not turning down loan applications at the bank where he works, he is turning down invitations from his friends, watching television alone on his couch. He's effectively become a "No Man." YES ©2008 Warner Bros. Pictures. Review © David Bruce

10. Carl's life takes an unexpected and radical turn when he grudgingly attends a self-help seminar led by a "Yes" guru who urges his devotees to say yes more and transform their lives. YES ©2008 Warner Bros. Pictures. Review © David Bruce

11. The initially skeptical Carl agrees to try spontaneity by saying yes... to everything. YES ©2008 Warner Bros. Pictures. Review © David Bruce

12. He begins to really appreciate the possibilities when he encounters Allison, an intriguing woman who comes upon him late at night as he's filling up a gas can and facing a long walk back to his empty car. She offers him a ride; he, of course, says 'yes.' YES ©2008 Warner Bros. Pictures. Review © David Bruce

13. Speaking of going to extremes, at one point in the story Allison becomes annoyed with Carl and tosses off a veiled reprimand to him: "Go jump off a bridge." Propelled by the power of suggestion, Carl bungee jumps off of the Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena. But has his willingness to embrace every opportunity might just become too much of a good thing. YES ©2008 Warner Bros. Pictures. Review © David Bruce

14. Peter is not only Carl’s friend, but also sort of the audience's eyes, watching and enjoying this really out- of-the-ordinary behavior come about in Carl. YES ©2008 Warner Bros. Pictures. Review © David Bruce

15. Director Peyton Reed envisioned an area of Los Angeles as the film's main setting within the sprawling city, "a very specific part of L.A. that has little to do with the film and TV business. "We set the film in and around Silverlake, Los Feliz and Echo Park, which have a nice mix of artists, young urban professionals. YES ©2008 Warner Bros. Pictures. Review © David Bruce

16. Consensus Voice: Jim Carrey works the premise for all it's worth, but it doesn't allow him to bust loose and fly. --Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun- Times YES ©2008 Warner Bros. Pictures. Review © David Bruce

17. "I've been that guy. I know a lot of people who are in that situation where they just avoid life. I live in the United States of Avoidance. To me, this is a movie about choosing to join life, and that's what drew me to it.” --Jim Carrey YES ©2008 Warner Bros. Pictures. Review © David Bruce

18. Here is a movie about the possibilities that come with an active and affirming embrace of life. And it does this in a very entertaining manner. What could be better than that? in As producer David Heyman says, “The idea that if you say yes--if you're open to the possibilities that life throws before you--then great things will happen, (is) very intriguing.” But remember, as in the story, it is not just yes, it is an active YES! Faith without works is dead! ©2008 Warner Bros. Pictures. Review © David Bruce YES ©2008 Warner Bros. Pictures. Review © David Bruce

19. "I thought the concept was really cool… imagine all the things you can get into if you say yes. Yes is pretty fertile territory." --Jim Carrey YES ©2008 Warner Bros. Pictures. Review © David Bruce

20. BREAKING THROUGH “But it's usually not the things we say yes to that we regret; it's when we say no that we look back and think, ‘Ah, I could have lived a little bit more.’” --Jim Carrey YES ©2008 Warner Bros. Pictures. Review © David Bruce