Stanley Ipkiss is a shy and unlucky bank clerk working at the local Edge City bank. |
Yes |
He is frequently ridiculed by everyone around him, except for his Jack Russell Terrier Milo, and his co-worker and best friend Charlie Schumaker. |
Yes |
Meanwhile, gangster Dorian Tyrell, owner of the Coco Bongo nightclub, plots to overthrow his boss Niko. |
No |
One day, Tyrell sends his singer girlfriend Tina Carlyle into Stanley’s bank to record its layout, in preparation to rob the bank. |
No |
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Stanley is attracted to Tina, and she seems to reciprocate. |
No |
After being denied entrance to the Coco Bongo, he finds a wooden mask near the city’s harbor. |
Yes |
Placing it on his face transforms him into a zoot-suited, green-faced, bizarre trickster known as the Mask, who is able to cartoonishly alter himself and his surroundings at will. |
Yes |
Stanley scares off a street gang that attempts to rob him by turning a balloon into a Tommy gun, and then he exacts revenge on his tormentors. |
No |
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The next morning, Stanley encounters detective Lieutenant Kellaway and newspaper reporter Peggy Brandt investigating the Mask’s activity of the previous night. |
No |
To attend Tina’s performance, he again becomes the Mask to raid the bank, inadvertently foiling Tyrell’s plan in the process. |
No |
At the Coco Bongo, Stanley dances exuberantly with Tina, whom he ends up kissing. |
I guess? |
Following a confrontation with Tyrell for disrupting the bank robbery, Stanley flees leaving behind a scrap of cloth from his suit that transforms back into his pajamas, while Tyrell is arrested by the police as a suspect for the bank robbery. |
Yes? |
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Based on the shred of cloth, Kellaway suspects Stanley to be the bank robber. |
Yes |
Stanley later consults a psychiatrist who has recently published a book on masks, and is told that the object may be a depiction of Loki, the Norse god of darkness and mischief. |
Maybe? |
The same night, Stanley transforms into the Mask and meets Tina at a local park, but the meeting is interrupted by Kellaway, who attempts to arrest him. |
No |
Stanley tricks a large group of police officers into joining him in a mass-performance of the Desi Arnaz song “Cuban Pete”, takes off the mask and flees with Peggy, but she betrays him to Tyrell for a $50,000 bounty. |
Yes, up through that “Cuban Pete” thing, although the rest of that is a mystery to me. |
Tyrell tries on the mask and becomes a malevolent green-faced monster. |
No |
Forced to reveal the location of the stolen money, Stanley is kept hostage in one of the mob’s cars while Tyrell’s henchmen search his apartment. |
No |
With the money now in the hands of Tyrell’s gang, Stanley is then delivered to Kellaway, along with a rubber green mask, where he is arrested. |
No |
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When Tina visits Stanley in his cell, he urges her to flee the city. |
No |
Tina thanks Stanley for treating her with respect and tells him that she knew that he was the Mask all along. |
No |
She attempts to leave the city, but is captured by Tyrell’s men and forcibly taken to a charity ball at the Coco Bongo hosted by Niko and attended by the city’s elite, including Mayor Tilton. |
No |
Upon arrival, the masked Tyrell kills Niko and prepares to destroy both the club and Tina with dynamite. |
No |
Milo helps Stanley escape from his cell, and Stanley brings Kellaway as a cover and hostage in a desperate attempt to stop Tyrell. |
No |
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After locking Kellaway in his car, Stanley enters the club and manages to enlist the help of Charlie, but is soon after spotted and captured. |
No |
Tina tricks Tyrell into taking off the mask, which is recovered and donned by Milo, turning the dog into a cartoonish pitbull who wreaks havoc among Tyrell’s men, while Stanley fights Tyrell himself. |
Yes |
After recovering the mask, Stanley uses its abilities to save Tina by swallowing Tyrell’s bomb and flushing Tyrell down the drain of the club’s ornamental fountain. |
No |
The police arrive and arrest Tyrell’s remaining henchmen, while Kellaway attempts to arrest Stanley once again. |
No |
Mayor Tilton intervenes and demands that Kellaway release Stanley, declaring that Tyrell was The Mask the whole time. |
No |
As the sun rises the following day, Stanley, Tina, Milo and Charlie take the mask back down to the harbor. |
I guess? |
Tina throws the mask into the water, and she and Stanley kiss. |
Yes |
Charlie then jumps in the water to retrieve the mask for himself, only to have it taken by Milo first. |
Yes |
The film ends with Stanley kissing Tina, quoting the Mask’s catchphrase: “SssssMOKIN’!!!” |
Not really, but it makes sense so I probably kind of remember it? |
I saw that movie, way back when, and remember even less of it (including the catchline, until I re-read it here…)
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I’m sure I saw it at least once, and think I probably saw it another time or two on TV, but I’m still amazed how much of it I do remember.
I’m wondering now what kind of results I’d get for other mid-90s movies now.
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