Yes Man is a 2008 romantic comedy film directed by Peyton Reed, written by Nicholas Stoller, Jarrad Paul, and Andrew Mogel and starring Jim Carrey and co-starring Zooey Deschanel.

The film received mixed reviews from critics, but was a box office success, making $223 million worldwide.

On the advice of an old colleague, Nick (who had earlier shattered a bank window with a rock), Carl attends a motivational seminar that encourages people to seize every opportunity to say "yes".

At the seminar, Carl meets inspirational guru Terrence, who tells him to enter a "covenant with the universe" and say yes to anything asked of him.

Later, Carl says yes to a homeless man's request and is stranded, out of gas, and with no battery on his cell phone in Elysian Park.

He earns a corporate promotion at work and, using his guitar lessons, plays Third Eye Blind's song "Jumper" to persuade a man not to commit suicide.

Peter travels to Nebraska as Carl's attorney and explains the situation, revealing the truth to Allison at the same time.

Having almost forgotten about Lucy's shower, Carl quickly arranges a major surprise party, as well as set up Norman and Rooney with Soo-Mi and Tillie, respectively.

Deciding he must end the covenant, Carl returns to the convention centre and hides in the backseat of Terrence's convertible so he can be released.

Carrey said in an interview with HBO: "Just learning the basic chords was maybe the most challenging part of any movie I've worked on in my career.

Reed played the song "Jumper" by Third Eye Blind, which had a high number of digital downloads after the film's theatrical release.

Von Iva's members collaborated with Deschanel, a singer-songwriter and one half of the duo She & Him, on writing and recording the band's songs for the film.

[7][8] Von Iva got the part of the fictional ensemble in the film after the movie's music supervisor, Jonathan Karp, saw the cover of their CD in Amoeba in Hollywood.

The site's consensus reads, "Jim Carrey's comic convulsions are the only bright spots in this otherwise dim and predictable comedy.

[15] In his review for The Miami Herald, Rene Rodriguez wrote, "Yes Man is fine as far as Jim Carrey comedies go, but it's even better as a love story that just happens to make you laugh.