
The next morning, Stanley encounters cynical Edge City detective, Lt.

When he takes the object home and puts it on, it comes alive, wraps around his head, and transforms him into a zoot suit wearing, wacky, green-headed, cartoonish figure called "The Mask", a trickster unbound by any limitations whether be personal inhibitions or the laws of physics, who cheerfully exacts revenge on some of Stanley's tormentors (in a comical goofy fashion) and terrifies a street gang that attempts to terrorize him, by firing real bullets at them, but all around them showing that he is genuinely insane, but can be a responsible man when he wants to be. Stanley is attracted to Tina, and she seems to reciprocate but after being denied entrance to the Coco Bongo, Stanley is stranded with a broken-down rental car at the city's filthy harbor, where he finds a mysterious wooden mask, which he mistakenly though was a person in distress in the water, and when he gets questioned by a police officer what’s he doing down there, he lies to him by saying he was looking for his mask. Tyrell sends his singer girlfriend Tina Carlyle (Cameron Diaz) into Stanley's bank with a hidden camera, in preparation to rob the establishment. Gangster Dorian Tyrell (Peter Greene) runs the exclusive Coco Bongo nightclub while plotting to overthrow his boss Niko. His only friends are his dog, Milo and his co-worker Charlie Schumacher ( Richard Jeni). Stanley Ipkiss ( Jim Carrey), a clerk at an Edge City Savings bank, is a shy, good-hearted, luckless romantic everyday man who is regularly bullied by nearly everyone around him, including his boss, his landlady, Agnes Peenman, and car mechanics who ripped him off.
