PRODUCED BY:
James G. Robinson
 

DIRECTED BY:
Tom Shadyac
 

STARRING:
Jim Carrey, Courtney Cox and so many more talented acts...
RUNNING TIME:

86 Minutes

GENRE:
Comedy
 

PRODUCTION YEAR:
1994
 

==STORYLINE==
Ace Ventura (Jim Carrey) is a private investigator living in Miami, Florida, who specializes in retrieval of tame or captive animals. Despite the success of his methods, he does not often receive many assignments and therefore cannot pay rent or repair his battered 1970s Chevrolet Monte Carlo; furthermore, his eccentricities make him the laughingstock of the Metro-Dade Police Department.
At Joe Robbie Stadium, Snowflake, a Bottlenose Dolphin mascot of the Miami Dolphins, is kidnapped two weeks before the team is due to play in the Super Bowl. The team's owner Mr. Riddle, believing the team will lose the Super Bowl unless Snowflake is returned, orders his Head of Operations Roger Podacter (Troy Evans) and Chief Publicist Melissa Robinson (Courteney Cox) to find the dolphin, or they will be fired. They hire Ventura to solve the case and discovers his first clue in the form of a rare triangular-cut orange amber stone, which he speculates to have fallen from a 1984 AFC Championship Ring. Ventura then tries to find his culprit by tricking each player who played in this competition into showing their ring, but every ring he checks appears to be intact and original.
Later, Podacter mysteriously falls to his death from his apartment, which Robinson and Ventura go to investigate. Although Miami Police Lt. Lois Einhorn (Sean Young) insists it was suicide, Ventura proves it was murder, embarrassing and infuriating Einhorn. While trying to find how Podacter's death is connected to Snowflake's disappearance, Ventura learns of a former Dolphins player named Ray Finkle, whom he has not investigated because he did not appear in the team photo, and had missed the potentially game-winning field goal kick at the end of Super Bowl XVII, causing the Dolphins to lose the game and his own career to fail.
Ace visits Finkle's parents and discovers that he blames Dan Marino for taking the snap incorrectly, causing him to miss the kick. Ace and Melissa go to a mental hospital where Finkle was last seen. Under the guise of a mental patient, Ace searches Finkle's belongings and discovers a newspaper article about a missing woman, coincidentally named Lois Einhorn. Studying this, Ventura realizes that Lt. Lois Einhorn is actually Ray Finkle in transgender disguise. Ventura reacts in disgust and vomits due to Einhorn having kissed him in her office earlier.
Ventura then follows Einhorn to an abandoned dock, where he finds a kidnapped Marino and Snowflake. When the police arrive, Einhorn orders the cops to shoot Ace, whereupon Ace tries to expose Einhorn by ripping off her clothes, but fails until assisted by Marino, who points out that Finkle's penis is tightly bound between her buttocks; Podacter was killed by Finkle because he had discovered this detail during a rendezvous with Einhorn. Exposed, Einhorn is humiliated by Ace and arrested.
Marino and Snowflake return in time for a game between the Miami Dolphins and Philadelphia Eagles. At halftime, Ventura attempts to capture an albino pigeon (worth a lot of money as a reward) earlier sought by himself, but is prevented by Swoop, the Eagles' mascot, who shoos the pigeon away when getting a drink from a cooler. Enraged, Ventura beats the mascot while he is thanked on the JumboTron for saving Marino and Snowflake; Ventura briefly stops fighting Swoop (while still pinning the mascot down) and smiles as the audience cheers for him.