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Kingpin
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: VAS
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 2
EAN: 9786305161868
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305161860
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
MPN: D906275D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 18, 1999
Running Time: 117 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: July 26, 1996
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Editorial Review:
The team behind Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary--two really stupid, gross-out films that worked and were quite funny--also made this really stupid, gross-out comedy that doesn't work and isn't funny at all. Woody Harrelson stars as a former bowling phenomenon with a hook for a hand, and Randy Quaid is an Amish farmer with a hidden talent for pins. The two join forces and get a sexy business partner (Vanessa Angel), and the film starts looking more and more like a jokey variation of The Color of Money. The Color of Money, however, didn't feature jokes about having oral sex with a hideous landlady or defecating in a sink or dragging disgusting stuff out of one's teeth with a length of floss. Bill Murray provides some much-needed relief as Harrelson's ex-partner turned rival. How come this stuff is obnoxious while the equally perverse punch lines of There's Something About Mary are a riot? It's a great mystery, all right, but there it is. --Tom Keogh
Roy Munson was once an expert bowler. Now he's a balding, polyester-clad loser, who wears a hook where his bowling hand used to be. The cash-free Roy finds a potential goldmine in Ishmael, an oafish Amish man who's a bowling prodigy. Munson trains the ingenuous, sheltered Ishmael, and enters him in a million-dollar bowling tournament in Reno. But the bumbling pair need money to get there, so with the aid of a sexy babe who joins them, they hustle unsuspecting bowlers as they travel across the country. During their VERY wacky trek, Ishmael is exposed to some rather un-Amish things -- like a strip club. But when the climactic tournament begins, Roy considers coming out of retirement (hook and all), when he discovers that one of the competitors is Big Ern McCracken, a cheesy, sleazy ex-champ -- who caused Roy to lose his hand. Release Date: 07/12/2005.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Definitely not as funny as I figured it would be...
I've never been a huge fan of the Ferrelly brothers (they surely aren't the Coen's) but this film starred Bill Murray (or so I thought) and I just love him so I had to watch it at least once. Truth be told, Murray is hilarious here in every frame he's in, but sadly he's just not in enough. Woody Harrelson, and to a lesser degree Randy Quaid, are funny in their own rights here, but neither of them can truly carry this film and it isn't really until Murray comes onto the screen that my attention ... Read More
Rating:  - this is a vary funney movie
woody harrelson did a grate job on this movie this movie was funney from begginig to end I was never board this movie deserves a 5 star rating
Rating: - Kingpin Movie
I love this movie. It had gotten hard to find this movie in stores and this was a reliable way of finding what I wanted. The product arrived in new condition. Just what I was looking for!
Rating: - Hilarious Movie
I have an arsenal of movie favorites that I keep for times when I'm not feeling very well. This movie is in it. It's hard to concentrate on those sniffles or whatever ails you when you're laughing this hard! Laughter really is the best medicine.
Rating:  - Original Theatrical Version MUCH BETTER--WHERE IS IT?
Again, as in The 40 Year Old Virgin, we have what was a classic comedy re-edited for its dvd release, and made all the poorer for it. Why won't they release the original theatrical version of Kingpin on DVD--it was PERFECT as it was. The gags they re-inserted for the DVD release add nothing and actually detract. I wish I'd never sold my old VHS, which had an untampered with version. The original version was easily the best flick the Farrelly Brothers or Woody Harrelson ever made.
The original ... Read More
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