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| Kingpin |
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Genre:Comedy
Reviewed In Issue 30 Of Widescreen Review®
Stars:
Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid, Vanessa Angel, Bill Murray |
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 DVD General Information |
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| (Studio/Distributor): |
MGM/UA Home Video |
| (Catalog Number): |
ML107092 |
| (MPAA Rating): |
PG13 |
| (Retail Price): |
$39.98 |
| (Running Time In Minutes): |
113 |
| (Color Type): |
Color |
| (Chaptered/Scene Access): |
Yes |
| (Closed Captioned): |
Yes |
| (Theatrical Release): |
1996 |
| (LD Release Date): |
1/1/97 |
| (THX® Digitally Mastered): |
No |
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| Credits Information |
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| (Director): |
Peter Farrelly & Bobby Farrelly |
| (Screenplay/Written By): |
Barry Fanaro & Mort Nathan |
| (Story): |
NA |
| (Music): |
Freedy Johnson |
| (Director Of Photography): |
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| (Production Designer): |
Sidney Jackson Bartholomew, Jr. |
| (Visual Effects): |
Cinesite & Digiscope |
| (Costume Designer): |
Mary Zophres |
| (Editor): |
Christopher Greenbury |
| (Supervising Sound Editors): |
Craig Clark |
| (Re-Recording Mixers): |
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| (Executive Producers): |
Keith Samples |
| (Co-Producers): |
Jim Burke & John Bertolli |
| (Producers): |
Brad Krevoy, Steve Stabler & Bradley Thomas |
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| DVD Picture Information |
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| (Principal Photography): |
Super 35 |
| (Theatrical Aspect Ratio): |
2.35:1 |
| (Measured LaserDisc Aspect Ratio): |
2.30:1 |
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| DVD Sound Information |
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| (DVD Soundtrack): |
DTS Digital Surround |
| (Theatrical Sound): |
DTS Digital Sound |
| (Theatrical Re-Issue Soundtrack): |
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| (Remastered Dolby Digital): |
No |
| (Remastered DTS Digital Surround): |
No |
| (Additional Languages): |
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| WSR Narrative Review |
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Story Synopsis:
Kingpin is the off-beat comedy of gross-out humor and bowling, from the makers of Dumb And Dumber. Roy Munson (Harrelson), one-time champion bowler, now big-time loser after his bowling hand is amputated, finds a promising protégé in Ishmael (Quaid), a naive Amish farmboy. Soon Ishmael delves into worldly corruption with Munson, as they head to compete in a million dollar tournament against the narcisistic Ernie McCraken (Murray).
LaserDisc Picture:
The picture, framed at 2.32:1, exhibits the same pleasing quality as the LD in Issue 24.
LaserDisc Soundtrack:
The 5.1 discrete DTS® Digital Surround soundtrack is spatially limited as was the Dolby® Digital soundtrack reviewed in Issue 24. At times, the music scoring delivers an aggressive surround presence with added .1 low frequency effects. The dialogue, as previously reviewed, often sounds spatially integrated, other than the ADR-produced variety. The music score sounds more harmonically rich and defined with the DTS coding. Much of the soundtrack is mono focused and wanting in spatial dimension. But sonic clarity, harmonic structure and low level resolution is improved in this soundtrack.
| (Surround Bass Below 50Hz): |
No |
| (Aggressive System Surround): |
Yes |
| (Intense 25Hz Bass): |
No |
| (Deep Bass Challenging): |
No |
| (Aggressive 0.1 LFE): |
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| (Holosonic Soundfield): |
No |
| (Aggressive Split Surround): |
No |
| (Center Back Surround Imaging): |
No |
| (Directionalized Dialogue): |
No |
Superb Sound Effects Recording Quality: |
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Superb Music Score Recording Quality: |
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Superb Special Visual Effects Quality: |
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Superb Color Fidelity: |
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Superb Cinematography: |
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