Kingpin
Roy Munson was raised to be the best bowler in the world. But a fellow bowler, Ernie McCracken and a misunderstanding with some rough punks, leaves poor Roy with the loss of his bowling hand. Before losing his hand to some angry bowlers he scammed, Roy was a bowling phenomenon. Twenty years later, Roy takes a gifted Amish bowler under his wing, and, in a comic series of raunchy adventures, they go on a mission to beat Roy';s old rival Big Ern.
25 November 1987, Duxbury, Massachusetts, USA
4 August 1962, Dayton, Ohio, USA
13 February 1961, Mobile, Alabama, USA
28 May 1961, Los Angeles, California, USA
April 23, 2007
Funny, outrageous, vulgar. The only bowling comedy in memory.
March 09, 2004
It's funny in parts in a tasteless, Farrelly Brothers way. Freedy Johnston's incidental music provides one of the 90s most pleasing scores.
October 22, 2014
Kingpin makes inspired comedy by channeling the Weber spirit-and the humble reality of the circuit-through the frame of an inspirational sports movie.
June 18, 2003
Has plenty of clever sight gags and outrageous jokes you can't help laughing at, no matter how hard you resist.
October 09, 2007
I found the sleazy comedy more tedious than watching an actual bowling match.
November 18, 2014
...a pervasively uneven comedy that just isn't able to overcome its various deficiencies...
August 04, 2007
Ends up with a seven-ten split between hilariously tasteless and just plain distasteful.
October 10, 2007
The combination of the overkill factor and a basic mean-spiritedness finally sinks it for me.
September 02, 2005
Crude and hilarious
January 01, 2000
With maybe 25 belly laughs, the brazenly crude Kingpin is often uproarious, but be forewarned that its creators apparently conceived it underneath a limbo bar. How looow can a funny guilty pleasure go?
July 06, 2003
The Farrelly brothers funniest comedy.
