Synopsis
Motivational Speaker Jack Corcoran is determined to get his career off the ground, but the biggest gigs he can get are the ones nobody wants. Then one day, he receives a telegram that his circus clown father has passed away, and has left a "huge" inheritance. When he gets there, he finds that his inheritance has come in the form of an elephant that was his father's pride and joy in circus acts. His main intention is to sell the pachyderm off. Jack must choose between loud and rude zookeeper Mo or attractive animal show owner Terry. As the two treks through the country Jack and the elephant develop a bond, and it changes his approach on life for the better.
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Cast
- Bill MurrayJack Corcoran
- Jeremy PivenWalter
- Janeane GarofaloMo
- Pat HingleVernon
- Linda FiorentinoTerry Bonura
- Matthew McConaugheyTip Tucker
- Keith DavidHurst
- Tracey WalterWee St. Francis
- Harve PresnellTrowbridge Bowers
- Deon AumaierCircus Performer - Jugglers
Recommandations
- 67
Austin Chronicle
With the warmth of Elliott Davis' cinematography and The Band and the Staple Singers on the score, Larger Than Life has much that's appealing for an older, old-fashioned crowd. - 63
ReelViews
Isn't loaded with promise, but at least the producers had the good sense to hire Bill Murray. Jack is the kind of irritable, self- absorbed guy that Murray can play perfectly, and the comedian's presence in Larger than Life lifts it to a considerably higher level than it might have otherwise attained. - 63
San Francisco Chronicle
Larger Than Life isn't as bad as it sounds, mostly because Murray is so likable and fundamentally incapable of not being funny. - 60
Chicago Reader
Not terribly funny, but the intimations of an older, saltier America in the picaresque plot make this watchable. - 50
Time Out
Disgracing itself only with McConaughey's over-extended bit as a psychotic trucker, the film delivers more or less comfortably on what you'd expect, then sits down for a rest. - 40
The New York Times
Although the screenplay by Roy Blount Jr. comes up with some potentially sidesplitting situations, the director, Howard Franklin, who shepherded Mr. Murray through the equally limp Quick Change six years ago, methodically subverts them. - 40
Variety
Harmless, but also, unfortunately, almost entirely mirthless, this putative comedy about an unsuspecting man obliged to transport a pachyderm cross-country aspires to a winsome charm that never crystallizes, leaving what’s onscreen to wilt before it ever blossoms. - 38
Chicago Sun-Times
They say an elephant never forgets, which means that I have an enormous advantage over Tai, who plays Vera, because I plan to forget this movie as soon as convenient.
