Storyline
After bowler Roy Munson swindles the wrong crowd and is left with a hook for a hand, he settles into impoverished obscurity. That is, until he uncovers the next big thing: an Amish kid named Ishmael. So, the corrupt and the hopelessly naïve hit the circuit intent on settling an old score with Big Ern.
Directors
Cast
Woody Harrelson, Bill Murray, David Shackelford, Lorri Bagley, Rick Barker, Prudence Wright Holmes, Will Rothhaar, Daniel Greene, Mark Charpentier, Lin Shaye, Willie Garson, Chris Elliott, Randy Quaid, Sayed Badreya, Richard Tyson, Rob Moran, Hank Brandt, Zen Gesner, Nancy Farrelly, Steve Tyler, Vanessa Angel, William Jordan, Nancy Frey-Jarecki, Brad Faxon, Linda Carola, Danny Murphy, Gretchen Treser, Googy Gress, Suzan Hughes, Michael Corrente, Libby Langdon, Liza Oxnard, Cynthia Farrelly Gesner
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Reviews
88
Some of the gags don't work, and yet I laughed at the Farrellys' audacity in trying them. And the humor isn't just gags and punch lines, but one accomplished comic performance after another.
75
USA Today
Potty humor to spare. [26 July 1996, p. D4]
67
Kingpin is no classic, but I've got to admit that after sitting though a number of the film's less-than-inspiring previews over the last few weeks, I wasn't exactly expecting the second coming of Laurel and Hardy.
60
Empire
As a barrel of easy, unsophisticated laughs, Kingpin delivers in spades.
50
Kingpin has nastiness going for it. There are prosthesis jokes, bad-teeth jokes, ugly-women jokes, sight gags involving vomiting, etc.
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