About this episode
The finale of our season on the awesome movie year of 1994 features our audience choice winner, the Jim Carrey comedy The Mask , which prevailed over fellow 1994 Carrey comedies Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Dumb and Dumber . Directed by Chuck Russell (based on the Dark Horse comic-book series) and starring Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz, Peter Greene, Richard Jeni, Peter Riegert and Amy Yasbeck, The Mask was the fourth highest-grossing film of 1994 worldwide, and the most commercially and critically successful of Carrey’s 1994 films. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert ( https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-mask-1994 ), Gene Siskel in the Chicago Tribune ( https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1994-07-29-9407290184-story.html ), and Janet Maslin in the New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/29/movies/film-review-the-mask-wild-card-in-a-game-of-dirty-tricks.html ). Visit https://www.awesomemovieyear.com for more info about the show. Make sure to like Awesome Movie Year on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear and follow us on Twitter @Awesomemoviepod You can find Jason online at http://goforjason.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Twitter @JHarrisComedy You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ and on Twitter @signalbleed You can find our producer David Rosen’s Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com , on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod . All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in next time for a special 1994 epilogue with a rundown of other movies we considered, plus some listener suggestions.