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Kingpin (1996) 6.8
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Metascore: 43/100
Reviews: 174 user | 53 critic | 14 from Metacritic.com A star bowler whose career was prematurely "cut off" hopes to ride a new prodigy to success and riches. |
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| Randy Quaid | ... | ||
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| Lin Shaye | ... | ||
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Daniel Greene | ... |
Calvert Munson
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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>
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
26 July 1996 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Kingpin - Estes Loucos Reis do Boliche See more »Box Office
Budget:
$27,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$5,582,000 (USA) (26 July 1996)Gross:
$24,944,213 (USA) (11 October 1996)Company Credits
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Roy: I think you can.
Neighbor: Even if it's your own?
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Performed and Written by Jonathan Richman
Artist Courtesy of Rounder Records
by arrangement with Ocean Park Music Group
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The entire commercial Ernie McCracken does for the kids, is ad libbed by Bill Murray with only the scenes scripted. See more »Goofs
When Roy is eating lunch with the Amish after starting to raise the barn wall, he has no corn on his plate next shot he has it in his hand and is eating it. See more »Quotes
Neighbor: Roy, can you get sick drinkin' piss?Roy: I think you can.
Neighbor: Even if it's your own?
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Closing dedication: This movie is dedicated to the memory of Jack S. Krevoy (as Jack Krevoy) See more »Connections
Referenced in The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriters Peter & Bobby Farrelly (2007) See more »Soundtracks
"Reno"Performed and Written by Jonathan Richman
Artist Courtesy of Rounder Records
by arrangement with Ocean Park Music Group
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When this film first came out, I had no use for it. Then I was home sick one day and caught it on cable. I laughed my butt off. This is a crude, rude and down right funny film. It also helped that I grew up near the Pennsylvania Dutch and plenty of bowling lanes. Two seemingly safe areas that the Farley brothers attack it without mercy. Sometimes it gets down right disgusting and many cannot stomach, but overall, its very funny.
Bill and Woody were funny as anything. The Disco-era beginning makes me laugh like crazy. The commercial Bill Murray does is to die for. This film will offend alot of people, and many references played for humor may make folks feel uncomfortable, but I loved it. If you are easily offended, this is NOT the film for you. But for everyone else who likes rude, crude and deviously funny -- often at the expense of others kinda humor, this is a gem to see.