Girl Gone Wild:
the Janeane Garofalo
Story
Girl gone wild: the Janeane Garofalo story
P.O. Box 11242
Richmond, VA 23230
United States
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Larger than Life
Trilogy Film Productions, 1996
Starring Bill Murray and Janeane Garofalo
Directed by Howard Franklin
LARGER THAN LIFE (PG) Bill Murray plays a joyless motivational speaker, bequeathed an elephant by the circus-clown father he never knew, who has to schlepp the beast from Baltimore to San Diego by train, truck, and foot. But the trek is long, the direction (by Murray's Quick Change colleague Howard Franklin) is soft, the script (by Roy Blount Jr.) is windy, and the occasional laughs are as heavy-footed as the thunking lead pachyderm herself. D -- Entertainment Weekly
By Rita Kempley
Washington Post Staff Writer
November 01, 1996
When it comes to performing comedy, it’s better to have been born in a trunk than to have been born with one.
Bill Murray, who plays second banana to an 8,000-pound pachyderm, gives audiences little to laugh about in this thin, inter-mammalian buddy comedy. Written by humorist Roy Blount Jr. and directed by Howard Franklin, the picture tracks the travels of a slick motivational speaker who inherits a highly trained elephant, Vera, from his father.
Alas, Murray must sell his inheritance to pay off his late father’s debts. The only potential buyers -- a San Diego Zoo keeper (Janeane Garofalo) and a whip-cracking circus performer (Linda Fiorentino) -- are on the West Coast, so Murray must move Vera cross-country to make the transaction.
Along the way, the pair encounter sundry kooks, including Matthew McConaughey’s tightly wound trucker, Pat Hingle’s big-top veteran and Lois Smith’s tattooed housewife.
The elephant, whose last film was "Operation Dumbo Drop," steals the three-ring circus with its charming personality and an amazing 50-command repertoire.
Girl gone wild: the Janeane Garofalo story
P.O. Box 11242
Richmond, VA 23230
United States
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