Bruce Nolan is a television reporter, who is currently assigned what he considers to be undignified assignments, that has him being the butt of a joke. When he is told that he is being considered for the position of anchorman, he goes out to do a live feed but when it is announced that Evan Baxter was going to be the new anchorman, and he freaks out. He gets fired, beaten up, and so on. In the end he blames God. God then decides to give Bruce his powers. Bruce then wreaks havoc and is enjoying it. He sabotages Evan and gets the job of anchorman. But when he realizes that he has to deal with what has got to be God’s most arduous task, listening and answering prayers. When he tries to grant everybody what they want, turmoil ensues. And while Bruce is getting everything he wants, he has been ignoring his girlfriend, Grace and loses her. And it seems that the only thing that he can’t do, is alter a person’s free will, so if he wants her back, he has to do it the hard way.
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Continuity: Coffee mugs on the diner table change positions between shots.
Continuity: When Bruce Nolan and Jack Baylor are talking in the hallway outside of Jack's office, Bruce's collar changes from inside his jacket to outside of it, then inside again.
Continuity: In the diner, the ketchup and mustard bottles on the left next to the old man keep switching positions.
Continuity: In the diner, Bruce clearly pours quite a bit of cream into his coffee. In the following shots, the coffee is still black.
Bruce: God, why do you hate me?
Bruce: B-E-A-utiful.
(features) It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Grace sees a scene of it on TV because of Bruce as a sign.
(followedBy) Evan Almighty (2007)
(references) The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
(referenced) The Process of Jim (2003) Reference to Jim Carrey's work on the film
(remadeAs) God Tussi Great Ho (2008) Main character gets to be God for a while, after his life is a failure
(spoofed) Scary Movie 3 (2003) A news presenter talks gibberish and can't help it
(spoofs) It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Bruce brings the moon closer with a "Lasso". in IAWL George Bailey offers Mary the Moon and says he was throw a lasso around it. That scene from IAWL is also included in Bruce Almighty.
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