Kingpin

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(comedy, sport)

Roy Munson (Woody Harrelson) was raised to be the best bowler in the world (trained early on by his father). But a fellow bowler, Ernie McCracken (Bill Murray) 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 traveling sales man. But it's really all down hill for him from that night on until ... One day he meets Ishmael (Randy Quaid) who's a Quaker that sneaks away from the farm to bowl (his fellow Quakers 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 Ismael 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 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 untimate bowling championship ... to see which one truly IS the champion. To find that out you'll have to see this funny and original movie. Bill Murray is at his best, since Caddyshack. Randy Quaid makes some daring choices that really work and Woody Harrelson brings us the comdey style from "Cheers" that made him a household name!.

actors:

Woody Harrelson	as Roy Munson
Randy Quaid	as Ishmael Boorg
Vanessa Angel	as Claudia
Bill Murray	as Ernie McCracken
Chris Elliott	as The Gambler
William Jordan	as Mr. Boorg
Richard Tyson	as Owner of Stiffy's
Lin Shaye	as Roy's Landlady
Zen Gesner	as Thomas Boorg
Prudence Wright Holmes	as Mrs. Boorg
Rob Moran	as Stanley Osmanski
Daniel Greene	as Calvert Munson
Will Rothhaar	as Young Roy
Mark Charpentier	as 1979 Bowling Buddy
Brad Faxon	as 1979 Bowling Buddy

directors:
Bobby Farrelly
Peter Farrelly
rating:6.60

See also: Comedy: 2001 Maniacs

See also: Woody Harrelson in Scanner Darkly, A