Time Heals All Wounds

Jim Carrey is looking to put an end to his career slump by returning to his comedic roots. His most recent film, the Joel Schumacher helmed thriller, The Number 23 totally tanked at the cineplex...

Pamela McClintock and Michael Fleming of Variety have details on the hopeful fix

Jim Carrey is looking to become a house husband in comedy "Me Time" for 20th Century Fox.

Principato-Young is producing with Carrey. Fox picked up the spec script from writing duo Ian Roberts and Jay Martel to develop into a feature for Carrey to topline.

Story revolves around a writer penning a book about his great-great-grandmother, a frontier woman. When his pregnant wife has to go on bed rest, leaving him to care for the house and their other child, his confidence is shaken as he reads his ancestor's diary, in which she describes raising a family, plowing the fields and taming the wild environs.

Carrey is coming off New Line 's "The Number 23," which has fizzled at the domestic B.O. with $35 million.

Last year, two Carrey projects were shelved over budget concerns, "Used Guys" at Fox and Sony and "Ripley's Believe It or Not! " at Paramount. Then he voluntarily pulled himself out of Focus Features' "A Little Game" weeks before it was set to start shooting. (Cameron Diaz pulled out at the same time.)

"Ripley's," however, is back on track, with Carrey and director Tim Burton aboard again. Par decided to resurrect the project and hired scribe Steve Oedekerk to rewrite the script. Oedekerk's take is due to be delivered in the next couple of weeks.

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While comedy is indeed Carrey's forte--it's no longer a sure bet that Jimbo will have a hit--just the same. Witness the poor performance of his last yuks flick Fun With Dick And Jane--which was really disappointing, in that, it wasn't at all that funny.