# Cable Guy - Die Nervensäge (1996)

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**Original title**: *The Cable Guy*
**Runtime**: 96 min
**Genres**: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
**Directed by**: Ben Stiller
**Written by**: Lou Holtz Jr.
**Starring**: Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick, Leslie Mann, Jack Black, George Segal, Diane Baker

> *There's no such thing as free cable.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Los Angeles. The chirp of a phone line. A lonely guy makes one new friend. When the new friend won’t leave him alone, things escalate into a series of escalating public embarrassments and worse. Ben Stiller directs a dark, very 90s comedy.

**Mood tags**: outsider, pitch-black, unhinged

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 6.1/10 (188648 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 57% · Metacritic 56/100

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