Upon arriving his discovers a strange man who claims to be God, played by Morgan Freeman. At the end of the worst day of his life, Bruce angrily ridicules and rages against God and God responds. He is struck by a large truck and in his unconsciousness he asks God to take his powers back and make it so that Grace finds a man she loves, even if it's not him. He can do anything but when he discovers others in Buffalo who are praying, he learns that maybe this job of being God isn't really that easy. Bruce searches for God and asks him to take his powers back. Upon getting his job back, he humiliates his rival, Evan and climbs to the top of the station. A guy who complains about God too often is given almighty powers to teach him how difficult it is to run the world.
At first he loves it. He also ends up in hot water with Grace when she sees Bruce's co-anchor kissing him at a party. Bruce wakes in the hospital and Grace arrives. Bruce Almighty is another comedic gem from funny man Jim Carrey, who plays Bruce Nolan, an offbeat news anchor with very bad luck and a stale career but a loving girlfriend, Grace played by Jennifer Aniston. He meets God and is given all the powers of God. A newscaster for the Channel 7 Eyewitness News complains about how God has only made his life a total waste.
The two rekindle their relationship and Bruce goes back to reporting on smaller, simpler stories. All of this success is eventually met with problems as he begins to hear people's prayers and thoughts and has trouble collecting and organizing them. A few days later he begins getting strange little signs that he ignores. Bruce doesn't believe at first but after a few tests, Bruce believes. God appears in human form and, endowing Bruce with divine powers, challenges Bruce to take on the big job to see if he can do it any better. God gives all of his powers to Bruce and give him the power and responsibility of being God. He is heartbroken when one of the prayers he hears is Grace asking to not be in love with him anymore.
He gets his revenge on the thugs who mugged him as well as his job back at the news station after staging an elaborate force of nature for himself to film. Storyline: Bruce Nolan, a television reporter in Buffalo, N. Finally, he receives a message to be at a particular address for a chance at a new job. He crashes his car after being fired and mugged by a group of thugs. Bruce has a little fun with his powers after getting the hang of them in a funny scene in a diner involving a bowl of soup parting like the Red Sea.
. Upon all of this happening he commands God to smite him. When Bruce is passed over for a dream job as head anchor by his long time rival Evan Baxter, played by Steve Carell, he flips out on live television and is fired from his job. . . .
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