Doing Time on Maple Drive

TV Movie
1992
1h 32m

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Jim Carrey, William McNamara, and Lori Loughlin in Doing Time on Maple Drive (1992)

A young college student, his family's "golden child," brings his fiancee home to meet them.A young college student, his family's "golden child," brings his fiancee home to meet them.A young college student, his family's "golden child," brings his fiancee home to meet them.

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7.0/10

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Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys
- 1 win & 3 nominations total

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Features an early, dramatic role by Jim Carrey.

Quotes
Lisa Carter: [sniff] I don't, um, I don't understand how anyone could choose to be like this... I'm just... it is not to be understood.
Matt Carter: I didn't choose this. I am this. Mom, I didn't choose to be gay. Do you think I'd choose to be this different from everyone else? That I'd choose to make you and Dad this upset? That I'd choose to lose someone as beautiful and wonderful as Allison? And what about AIDS? I mean, suppose someone wanted to be gay, would they want to be gay now?
Lisa Carter: I don't know. And I don't want to know.
Matt Carter: Then you don't want to know me either.

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Featured in The 44th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1992)

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Thought provoking drama.

Firstly I should say that this film shows how well Jim Carrey can act when he's not in "manic" mode. He has only recently come close in "The Truman Show".

I went literally around the world before I found this film on video, having searched for five years. I am so glad that I succeeded.

For once in a movie I actually felt sorry for the people that I was meant to feel sorry for, quite a directorial achievement. Carrey's "best man" speech led everyone down the wrong track, expecting a self pitying outcome, only to be twisted into a noble speech right at the end.

This is one film that is well worth the effort of tracking it down.