#BILL MURRAY KINGPIN BOWLING BALL MOVIE#
In fact the movie was such a commercial failure that it prompted the brothers to get as outrageous as they possibly could with There’s Something About Mary in the belief that their careers in movies might soon expire. Upon release it flopped at the box-office ( Dumb and Dumber and There’s Something About Mary combined made over 300 million dollars Kingpin made just 25 millions dollars) and baffled even critics who had taken a shine to the directors’ previous effort. Fittingly, the movie is like a strong-headed, wayward middle child vying for a share of the attention heaped on its more celebrated siblings. The Farrellys gave birth to Kingpin - the most peculiar member of their brood - in 1996, between their breakout hit Dumb and Dumber and their crowning achievement There’s Something About Mary. “And you call this a bowling alley,” he scolds the manager. When Roy Munson, one time bowling wunderkind turned destitute conman, discovers that Lancaster Bowl no longer has a men’s room novelty machine for him to supply with florescent condoms, he’s shocked and offended. But the directors aren’t simply lampooning this strange world they’re also paying tribute to its unapologetic griminess. As such they serve as a perfect setting for the Farrelly brothers - who are always at their best when championing the crude underdogs of life - and in Kingpin the underlying joke running throughout is that anybody with some sense and a few prospects should in no way be investing a significant amount of themselves in bowling.
Bowling alleys have long been the natural environment of lowlifes, misfits, and losers. As arenas of athletic contest they seem forever doomed to conjure up images of beer-bellied men competing in obscurity inside dingy, decrepit rooms. There are few locations in the landscape of American sports that evoke as distinct a sense of mediocrity as bowling alleys.
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