Ace Ventura 1: Pet Detective 🎥 1994 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Ace Ventura, an eccentric and offbeat private detective in Miami, is known for rescuing tame or captive animals and is frequently subjected to mockery from the Miami Police Department. After a Bottlenose dolphin named Snowflake is stolen from Joe Robbie Stadium, Ventura is hired by Melissa Robinson, the Miami Dolphins’ beautiful publicist, to find the team’s mascot before the upcoming Super Bowl. While investigating the crime scene, Ventura finds a rare amber stone in Snowflake’s tank, leading him to suspect billionaire Ronald Camp, a collector of exotic animals. Attending a social gala at Camp’s mansion with Melissa, Ace searches for the dolphin and instead finds a dangerous man-eating shark.

Upon leaving, Ventura notices Camp wearing a 1984 AFC Championship ring that features the same amber stones. He theorizes that a member of the 1984 Dolphins is the culprit, but after spying on the recipients in public spaces and shower rooms, he discovers all the rings have their stones intact. Roger Podacter, the Dolphins’ head of operations, falls mysteriously to his death from his apartment balcony, and while the police believe it was suicide, Ventura proves it was murder and mocks the officers on site.

As he and Melissa investigate further, they discover another member of the 1984 team that wasn’t on the original roster, a former Dolphins placekicker named Ray Finkle, who missed a 26-yard field goal in the final seconds of Super Bowl XIX, costing the Dolphins the game and ending his career in disgrace. Realizing that Finkle may be after Melissa next, Ace takes her back to his apartment for protection and they wind up having have sex four times as Ace’s pets watch. The next morning, Ace travels to Finkle’s hometown of Collier County and learns from his parents that Ray went insane and blamed quarterback Dan Marino for holding the ball with the laces in prior to the kick.

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