It is the strangest movie. When Ron Howard and Jim Carrey teamed up to make a live-action feature-film adaptation of Dr. Seuss’s beloved children’s book How the Grinch Stole Christmas, some might have expected a straightforwardly heartwarming family picture, but the resulting 2000 film was nothing of the sort. Howard had been a fan of the book and the 1966 half-hour animated special, but he wasn’t initially interested in making another kids’ fantasy. (His previous film had been the topical reality-TV satire EdTV ; his next would be the Oscar-winning biopic A Beautiful Mind .) And though he was known as a blockbuster funnyman, Carrey had entered a more dramatic phase of his career with acclaimed (and Method-y) roles in The Truman Show and Man on the Moon ; his next would be The

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