Larger Than Life
Updated June 26, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
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Director: | Howard Franklin |
Writer: | Roy Blount, Jr. |
Director of Photography: | Elliot Davis |
Editor: | Sidney Levin |
Music: | Miles Goodman |
Production Designer: | Marcia Hinds-Johnson |
Producers: | Richard B. Lewis, John Watson and Pen Densham |
United Artists; PG; 93 minutes | |
Release: | 11/96 |
Cast: | Bill Murray, Janeane Garofalo, Matthew McConaughey, Linda Fiorentino and Tai |
What a waste. Murray is perhaps the most talented physical comedian in film today. He runs circles around Jim Carrey. Team him with a stubborn elephant and the sight gags should be many and side-splitting. But there's barely a laugh to be had. Motivational speaker Jack Corcoran (Murray) inherits from the father he never met a circus elephant and a large debt. His only option is to sell the beast, and the interested buyers are 3,000 miles away in California. The dull cross-country trip involves a train ride, a lift from an unintelligible redneck (McConaughey) and seemingly endless miles traveled on foot.
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