Larger Than Life

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Larger Than Life ★½ Nickel andDime; Large as Life 1996 (PG)

The pitch for this movie (Murray takes an elephant on a cross-country trip) must have sounded terrific. Unfortunately, the pitch was fouled off. Murray is his usual smarmy self as cut-rate motivational speaker Jack Corcoran, who inherits the pachyderm and a pile of bills after his circus clown father dies. Following the “road movie” formula, he encounters wacky characters along the way, including a speed-freak trucker (McConaughey), a sexy animal trainer (Fiorentino) and a strait-laced zookeeper (Garofalo). In a piece of brilliant casting, Tai, the star of “Operation Dumbo Drop” appears as…the elephant. 93m/C VHS, DVD . Bill Murray, Janeane Garofalo, Linda Fiorentino, Matthew McConaughey, Keith David, Pat Hingle, Jeremy Piven, Lois Smith, Anita Gillette, Maureen Mueller, Harve Presnell, Tracey Walter; D: Howard Franklin; W: Roy Blount Jr.; C: Elliot Davis; M: Miles Goodman.