Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey in Lightning at a Bottle

While we were casting it, Jim Carrey read it. And his career was just taking off right then. So now all of a sudden, it's like not a $100,000 movie. We ended up making the movie that we got $16 million budget. That's still not a fortune. No. I think seven of which went to Jim Carrey. The reason why we got Jeff Daniels is because once we had Jim, we started thinking, who can play alongside him? and he liked the idea too.