Yes Man Page #15

Synopsis: Carl Allen is at a standstill. No future... Until the day he enrolls into a personal development program based on a very simple idea: say yes to everything! Carl discovers with amazement the magical power of "Yes", and sees his professional and romantic life turned upside down overnight: an unexpected promotion and a new girlfriend. But he'll soon discover that better can be good's enemy, and that all opportunities shouldn't be taken.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Peyton Reed
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures/Village Roadshow
  3 wins & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
46
Rotten Tomatoes:
46%
PG-13
Year:
2008
104 min
$97,600,000
Website
8,349 Views


It was a spontaneous vacation.

Oh right. I was just saying to Agent Tweed how

I wanted to take a fun-filled acation in Lincoln, Neb.

Are you currently a member of

Persianwifefinder.com?

Yes, but you don't underst...

- Yes? What is that?

Faranoosh. It was nothing.

I can explain.... I can explain.

Explain this jackhole.

As chief loan officer at BREA F.S.L. you

gave a man money to start a fertilizer business.

For what? Bombs?

- No.

Have you recently started taking flying lessons?

- Yes. Oh come on!

Why did you learn Korean?

Are you allying with the North Koreans?

No! What?

You were married for only six months.

Was that some sort of immigration thing?

Were you married?

- Yes, oh, that was a long time ago.

I was going to tell you.

I was going to tell her, I just didn't ...

- Start talking, Carl.

If that is your real name.

We knew another Karl we weren't

too crazy about, didn't we, Tweed?

His name was Marx.

I need to speak to my attorney.

Several months ago, my client

attended a self-empowerment seminar

that requires him to say 'Yes'

to any request that's presented

So all the activity that appears

suspicious, the flying lessons, ...

the spontaneous trip taking

it's all because he must

say 'Yes' to any opportunity.

He is really in to it.

You just say 'Yes' everything? Are you kidding me?

- It's not what it sounds like.

Oh really? How does it sound,

because I'd really love to hear it.

I'm wondering if there's a

better setting for this back and forth?

Yeah, maybe we should

speak privately. Come on inside.

Whew, pretty close.

What the hell, Carl?

Are you serious, you just say 'Yes' to everything?

Even if you don't like it?

- No, of course not.

Sometimes.

- Oh, good. What a relief

because I thought you lied all the time.

but it's just sometimes, that's really excellent.

So you didn't want to come to my show?

You didn't want to go jogging with me?

You didn't want to travel with me?

- Yes I did! That was my idea!

And when I asked if you wanted to move in together,

that took a lot for me to do that and I meant it.

and I didn't know what to expect, but I guess I

figured like an adult you were going to weigh the options.

You paused. You wanted to say no,

but you couldn't because you had to say 'Yes'.

That's not ...entirely ...true.

How do I know if anything you did was because

you wanted to or because of some goddamn program?

Allison.

Bye, Carl.

I can't believe I didn't tell her

I was married. I'm such an idiot.

You know what I did?

- What's that.

She asked me to move in with her

and I hesitated.

That was like a 'no'. I should have

just said 'Yes' right away, you know?

That's how the whole thing got screwed up.

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Nicholas Stoller

Nicholas Stoller (born 19 March 1976) is a British-American filmmaker. He is known mainly for directing the 2008 comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall, its 2010 spin-off/sequel, Get Him to the Greek, Neighbors (2014), its 2016 sequel Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, co-writing and executive producing The Muppets and Muppets Most Wanted, and writing and directing Storks (2016). more…

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