1996 · comedy · sport
Kingpin (1996)
Directed by Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly1h 54m1996
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 naive hit the circuit intent on settling an old score with Big Ern.
Our read: Kingpin (1996) (1996) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · sport entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / sport, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- inventive
- intimate
- funny
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