Kingpin

Jul 4, 1996

1h 54m

★ 6.5

You wouldn't want to meet these pinheads in an alley.

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Motion Picture Corporation of America

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Rysher Entertainment

Kingpin Trailers

Cast

Roy Munson

Woody Harrelson

Ishmael Boorg

Randy Quaid

Claudia

Vanessa Angel

Ernie McCracken

Bill Murray

The Gambler

Chris Elliott

Mr. Boorg

William Jordan

Sarah Boorg

Nancy Frey-Jarecki

Owner Of Stiffy's

Richard Tyson

Landlady

Lin Shaye

Thomas

Zen Gesner

Mrs. Boorg

Prudence Wright Holmes

Stanley Osmanski

Rob Moran

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2.5

Sparkler

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2.0

Play Off

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Johan is a 35 year old soccer fan, unemployed but living by his wits and charm. During the Soccer World Championships in 1990 all Swedes want to follow the games, including Johan who doesn't own a TV set. He gets himself invited to friends or goes to bars to see matches. He is pursued by two hit men, as he owes money for a grand piano he was supposed to sell. Johan seeks the help of down-and-out Kenneth to avoid bodily harm. Kenneth arranges for Johan to smuggle 15 Iraqi from Frankfurt to Sweden. On the same night Sweden plays the fateful game against Costa Rica...

4.1

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No overview available.

2.3

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A new swimming coach is hired to break a team's seven-year losing streak.

6.0

Break!

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4.0

Fake-Out

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Gangster's girlfriend hangs out in a Las Vegas hotel with her cop protectors while she waits to testify.

2.0

Base Brawl

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5.0

The Miracle Kid

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A young boxer finds his life turned upside down when he meets with sudden success in the ring.

3.3

Gridiron Flash

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A college football team recruits a tough convict.

4.1

Little Treasure

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Margo is an ex-stripper who meets her long, lost father in Mexico. She looks after him in the waning days of his life, with the help of a traveling projectionist. The father passes away, telling of the loot from a botched bank robbery that he buried years earlier. The two get jobs in town as their relationship grows and they search for the treasure on the weekends. But while the treasure seems to bring them together, it also seems to be tearing them apart.

6.6

Happy Gilmore

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Failed hockey player-turned-golf whiz Happy Gilmore — whose unconventional approach and antics on the green courts the ire of rival Shooter McGavin — is determined to win a PGA tournament so he can save his granny's house with the prize money. Meanwhile, an attractive tour publicist tries to soften Happy's image.

6.7

The Replacements

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Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players' strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that impossible dream hinges on whether his replacements can hunker down and do the job. So, McGinty dusts off his secret dossier of ex-players who never got a chance (or screwed up the one they were given) and knits together a bad-dream team of guys who just may give the Sentinels their title shot.

6.5

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6.4

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5.2

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5.0

Major League: Back to the Minors

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At the behest of Roger Dorn -- the Minnesota Twins' silver-tongued new owner -- washed-up minor league hurler Gus Cantrell steps up to the plate to take over as skipper of the club's hapless farm team. But little does he know that Dorn has an ulterior motive to generate publicity with a grudge match between the big leaguers and their ragtag Triple A affiliate.

6.4

The Wild Soccer Bunch

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4.8

The Comebacks

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7.1

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