The Ringer

December. 23,2005      PG-13
Rating:
5.8
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Pressured by a greedy uncle and a pile of debt, lovable loser Steve Barker resorts to an unthinkable, contemptible, just-crazy-enough-to-work scheme. He pretends to be mentally challenged to rig the upcoming Special Olympics and bring home the gold. But when Steve's fellow competitors get wise to the con, they inspire him to rise to the greatest challenge of all: becoming a better person.

Johnny Knoxville as  Steve Barker
Brian Cox as  Gary Barker
Katherine Heigl as  Lynn Sheridan
Luis Ávalos as  Stavi
Jed Rees as  Glen
Leonard Earl Howze as  Mark
Geoffrey Arend as  Winston
Edward Barbanell as  Billy
Bill Chott as  Thomas
Mike Cerrone as  Paulie

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Reviews

Karry
2005/12/23

Best movie of this year hands down!

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Kaelan Mccaffrey
2005/12/24

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

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Rosie Searle
2005/12/25

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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Bob
2005/12/26

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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Scooterburns
2005/12/27

This movie rocks! It has everything, great story line and just goes to show life is precious. Movie is such heart felt may seem a bit wrong but it's really not! Love it. Go for gold!

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tanja_anka
2005/12/28

Good movies are great, bad movies are often still very entertaining, but this movie is absolutely horrible. Acting of the main character: the worst. Storyline: really bad.But really, the acting skills of the main character made switch off the movie before it ended (a first!)I just couldn't take it anymore.

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dartleyk
2005/12/29

a la forest gump, and PC summer camps with "non-competitive" games where everyone wins, this movie accepts the idea that even them most disadvantaged (that's PC) are basically just like us; the hero, not really, bridges the gap as he is not stupid or awkward or particularly funny looking but acts that way; yes, it's akin to jerry lewis aping MS patients, but somehow OK; of course, the hero-con man has the hots for a blonde babe who oversees the special olympic program, unlike the others he acts like who don't know a babe from the phone book; why a 5? because it is an utterly low-life, bottom of the barrel movie that has poked a hole, albeit unwittingly, in today's astonishingly, I feel so much better, PC culture

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KineticSeoul
2005/12/30

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