Ed (1996)

Director:

Bill Couturié

Writers (WGA):

Ken Richards (story) and
Janus Cercone (story) ...

Release Date:

15 March 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Family | Sport

Tagline:

Minor league. Major friendship.

Plot Keywords:

Monkey | Sports Team | Monkey Actor | Chimpanzee | Baseball

Awards:

3 nominations

Cast

Matt LeBlanc	...	Jack 'Deuce' Cooper
Gene Ross	...	Red
Paul Hewitt	...	Bucky
Sage Allen	...	Cooper's Mother
Stan Ivar	...	Cooper's Father
Jim O'Heir	...	Art
Rick Johnson	...	Kurt 'Crush' Bunyon
Valente Rodriguez	...	Jesus Rodriquez
Jack Warden	...	Chubb
Bill Cobbs	...	Tipton
Leonard Kelly-Young	...	Customer (Joe)
Jayne Brook	...	Lydia
Patrick Kerr	...	Kirby
James Caviezel	...	Dizzy Anderson (as Jim Caviezel)
Troy Evans	...	Bus Driver

MPAA:

Rated PG for language, crude humor and brief mild violence.

Runtime:

94 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS

Certification:

USA:PG (certificate #34310) | Iceland:L | Australia:G | Finland:K-8 (video premiere) | UK:PG (video premiere)

Company:

Longview Entertainment

Trivia:

Matt Le Blanc, best known for his role on "F·r·i·e·n·d·s", happens on a Friends episode on TV in this film.

Quotes:

Tipton: [Ed complains about the bat being too big] Sorry Ed, we don't carry baseball bats your size.
[Ed bites off the end]
Chubb: [laughing] We do now.

Movie Connections:

Features "Friends" (1994)

Chimp dung-thought of it sickens me even now!

I had to comment, because this piece of Chimp dung finally replaced "Mannequin 2" as my personal worst movie of all time, as well as replacing "Blame it on the Bellboy" as last movie I physically could not watch all the way through. I made it to the big date, and past "cut week" and the chimp and neighbor girl were doing something with food, but I have no idea just how long the thing would go on. Bad script, bad sports, bad effects (not so much bad digital effects but incomprehensible ones- what was the deal with the dollar signs in the owner's eyes? I know that the guy couldn't act, but still- let him put on his greed face that he'd been practicing in the mirror)

I kept hoping that Matt LeBlanc, who I love on "friends", and liked in "Lost in Space" had agreed to do this before he had a going career, like Jennifer Aniston and "Leprechaun." But there was a scene where the chimp was watching "Friends"! I shudder to think how much LeBlanc must have been paid to be in this bomb. I hope for his sake, it was a lot.

And just one comment on the Chimp outfit- couldn't they have somehow disguised the relative size of its head? I know that there were people under the mask, but with the chimp head on, it looks like the cranium is half again the volume of Matt LeBlanc's! A chimpanzee with a brain that size would certainly be smarter than anybody involved in this film. Oh well. A thoroughly hideous experience, gave me a severe migraine, and remembering it now sickens me.