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Title: Kingpin (1996)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Woody Harrelson | ... | Roy Munson | |
| Randy Quaid | ... | Ishmael | |
| Vanessa Angel | ... | Claudia | |
| Bill Murray | ... | Ernie McCracken | |
| Chris Elliott | ... | The Gambler | |
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William Jordan | ... | Mr. Boorg |
| Richard Tyson | ... | Owner Of Stiffy's | |
| Lin Shaye | ... | Landlady | |
| Zen Gesner | ... | Thomas | |
| Prudence Wright Holmes | ... | Mrs. Boorg | |
| Rob Moran | ... | Stanley Osmanski | |
| Daniel Greene | ... | Calvert Munson (as Danny Green) | |
| Will Rothhaar | ... | Young Roy | |
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Mark Charpentier | ... | 1979 Bowling Buddy |
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Brad Faxon | ... | 1979 Bowling Buddy |
Roy Munson was raised to be the best bowler in the world (trained early on by his father). But a fellow bowler, Ernie McCracken and a misunderstanding with some rough punks, leaves poor Roy with the loss of his bowling hand! Not to let this get him down, he gets a prosthetic hand and becomes a travelling sales man. But it's really all down hill for him from that night on until ... One day he meets Ishmael who is Amish and sneaks away from the farm to bowl (his fellow Amish would disown him if they knew)! Roy convinces Ishmael to let him be his trainer and he'll make him the best bowler the world has ever seen. Reluctantly Ishmael agrees to go on the road and shortly afterwards actually finds that life outside the farm is quite fun. Soon their paths cross that of Ernie McCracken who is still a top ranking bowler. While Roy's career and life have landed in the toilet bowl, Ernie is still drawing huge crowds and all the babes! They both square off for the ultimate bowling championship ..... Written by Jane Byron Dean <McGinty@aol.com>
Sitting around with nothing better to do, my wife and I thought we'd give a 1 1/2 star Woody Harrelson movie a chance. Terrible reviews. No one saw it. No one heard of it.
In the first half hour we were in pain from laughing so hard. Only people who saw it will understand the following: "I milked the cow. She sure was hard to warm up." It took me 15 minutes to recover from the next few seconds of punchline. I had to roll off the couch and get down on the floor before I FELL on the floor.
There are about 15 BIG laughs and maybe 30 smaller ones.
I went into IMBD the next day to read what real people (not critics) had to say. Critics didn't like "Ferris Bueller" or "Airplane" either. IMBD clued me that this was made by the same guys who did "Dumb & Dumber" and "There's Something about Mary." If those two screamers aren't to your taste, you'll be with the critics on "Kingpin." Comedy works differently for different people.
Full of truly original humor. RUN don't walk to rent it. I have 1153 movies on tape and am kicking myself for not taping this for visitors who ask me to show them something they may have missed.