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'Jim & Andy': The Thin Line Between An Actor's Method — And Madness

Documentarian Chris Smith aims his camera at Jim Carrey and the actor's on-set behavior while shooting the 1999 Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon.
Jim Carrey stars in the documentary<em> Jim & Andy.</em>

At one point during , a documentary about Jim Carrey and the making of Andy Kaufman biopic , Carrey gets emotional when asked about his father. Carrey remembers his dad as the funniest person in the room and a brilliant saxophonist who gave up his musical ambitions in order to care for his family. Then he lost his job as an accountant at 51 and it broke him. He hadn't just failed to achieve his dreams. He failed at

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