Cathey) is shot by police responding to the disturbance. Needing money to attend Tina's performance at the Coco Bongo, the Mask noisily interrupts Tyrell's bank robbery and steals the targeted money while Tyrell's henchman Freeze ( Reg E. Despite these threats, the temptation to again use the mask is overwhelming and he puts it back on that evening.
The next morning, Stanley encounters world-weary Edge City detective Lieutenant Kellaway ( Peter Riegert) and newspaper reporter Peggy Brandt ( Amy Yasbeck), both of whom are investigating the Mask's activities of the previous night. The mask wraps around his head, transforming him into a wackily-suited, green-headed, figure, "The Mask", a trickster with reality-bending powers, physical imperviousness and without personal inhibitions who exacts comical revenge on some of Stanley's tormentors and scares a street gang that attempts to mug him. He takes the object home and jokingly puts it on. Later that night after being denied entrance to the Coco Bongo, he is stranded with a broken-down loaner car at the city's filthy harbor, where he finds a mysterious wooden mask next to a pile of garbage which at first he mistakes to be a drowning man. Stanley is smitten with Tina, and she seems to reciprocate. Tyrell sends his singer girlfriend Tina Carlyle ( Cameron Diaz) into Stanley's bank with a hidden camera, in preparation to rob the bank.
Meanwhile, gangster Dorian Tyrell ( Peter Greene) runs the exclusive Coco Bongo nightclub while plotting to overthrow his boss Niko ( Orestes Matacena). His only friends are his Fox Terrier Milo and his co-worker Charlie ( Richard Jeni).
Stanley Ipkiss ( Jim Carrey), a clerk in an Edge City bank, is a shy, luckless romantic who is regularly bullied by nearly everyone around him, including his boss ( Eamonn Roche), his landlady Mrs Peenman ( Nancy Fish), and car mechanics.The synopsis below may give away important plot points.