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starring: Bill Murray, Matthew McConaughey, Jerry Adler, Richard Alan Baker, Richie Allandirected by: Howard Franklin
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304413364
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 630441336X
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: March 02, 1999
Running Time: 93 minutes
Sales Rank: 21043
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: November 01, 1996
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Bill Murray, Janeane Garofalo, Matthew McConaughey and Linda Fiorentino star in a family film thatwill amuse adults as much as it entertains children (Gannett News), while offering a trunkful of love, laughter and excitement they'll want to experience again and again! Jack Corcoran (Murray) is thrilled when he learns that his father, a former circus clown, has left him a very big inheritance. But when Jack learns that the large legacy is Vera, an 8,000-pound elephant, he immediately makes plans to sell her'to a buyer 3,000 miles away! Thus begins the most outrageous cross-country journey ever, complete with crazed truck drivers, hilarious run-ins with the law and one lovelorn elephant who stretches the limits of travel size but is really big on charm!
Amazon.com:
Jack Corcoran (Bill Murray) is a mildly successful motivational speaker on the lower end of the trade-show circuit. At his engagement party, he finds out his long-believed-dead dad has only recently died, leaving him a large inheritance. Of course, Jack doesn't know how large until he meets a suspicious lawyer (Harve Presnel) who unloads Dad's prized possession: a four-ton circus elephant named Vera (Tai). Larger Than Life is a buddy-road movie. Murray uses his old tricks to bully or con several people into helping him, including a whacked-out truck driver (Matthew McConaughey). In this day and age of digital effects, Murray could be teaming up with Roger Rabbit or some other special effect; his interplay with Tai is quite natural. Director Howard Franklin codirected the underrated Quick Change with Murray, and it's clear they work well together. A curio in Murray's career, this film is effective and fun family entertainment, filled with good-natured ribs, bubble-light dramatics, and a scene-stealing elephant. She's a charmer. --Doug Thomas
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - "LARGER THAN LIFE" IS A GREAT LITTLE MOVIE!
I am not a big Bill Murray fan, but this movie changed my mind. This is just a cute little movie. I own it and watch it quite often because it always makes me laugh and feel good. If anything, it is worth seeing just to watch Matthew McConaughey's role as a off the wall truck driver! He will have you rolling on the floor laughing! He almost steals the movie from Bill Murray and the elephant! Watch it! You won't be sorry!
Rating:  - Sweet Movie, Uncredited Source Material
I SUPPOSE you could say the notion of a guy inheriting a female elephant from a dead parent (or parent figure) that he then must travel cross-country with is an idea that could occur to more than one writer ... but it may be just general enough that the originating writer need not be credited. Which is too bad. For LARGER THAN LIFE is clearly an update and paraphrase of the period British novel ROSIE IS MY RELATIVE, written by the late naturalist Gerald Durrell. Though the episodes in the film are ... Read More
Rating: - Great Customer Service
I was so impressed that I recieved my DVD within 2 days!!
Larger than Life is such a funny movie. It seems not many people have heard of this movie but I highly recommend seeing it. I had looked all over for it in the stores to buy and it was nowhere to be found. I knew I would be able to find it on amazon and for a great price.
If you liked Groundhogs Day with Bill Murray, you will like this. It also has a small cameo with Matthew McConaughey that was hilarious!!, you won't ... Read More
Rating: - Makes you feel joy.
Yes.. it is a little cheesy, but it makes me smile. Watching the elephant in the lake and seeing the simple joy from that animal makes the world go away and makes me thankful for the things I take for granted. This is by no means my favorite movie but it is in a group of 5...make me feel better movies.
Rating: - larger than life
larger than life is a cute movie about jack corcoran who inherits vera a 8,000 pound elephant from his estranged fatherand former clown .Jack then tries to get rid of her by trying to find the highest bidder which happens to be 3,000 miles away .so begins this crazy cross country journey everwhere he meets a crazy truck driver ( matthew mcconaughey)runins with the law and even his father former friend the human blockhead .along the way jack learns to love vera and finds out getting rid a vera is the ... Read More
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