Released theatrically in the USA July 26, 1996.

Color by Foto-Kem; in DTS Stereo.

Additional cast: Prudence Wright Holmes (Mrs. Boorg), Rob Moran (Stanley Osmanski) and Danny Green (Calvert Munson).

Additional credits: Jim Burke (co-producer) and James B. Rogers (assistant director).

Rated BBFC 12 by the British Board of Film Classification.

Roy Munson was once an expert bowler. Now he's a balding, polyester-clad loser, who wears a hook where his bowling hand used to be. The cash-free Roy finds a potential goldmine in Ishmael, an oafish Amish man who's a bowling prodigy. Munson trains the ingenuous, sheltered Ishmael, and enters him in a million-dollar bowling tournament in Reno. But the bumbling pair need money to get there, so with the aid of a sexy babe who joins them, they hustle unsuspecting bowlers as they travel across the country.
During their VERY wacky trek, Ishmael is exposed to some rather un-Amish things -- like a strip club. But when the climactic tournament begins, Roy considers coming out of retirement (hook and all), when he discovers that one of the competitors is Big Ern McCracken, a cheesy, sleazy ex-champ -- who caused Roy to lose his hand.

"...Uproarious....Harrelson and Quaid throw themselves into their cross-country bowling odyssey with unencumbered acting abandon..."

"...KINGPIN is consistently inventive in its wackiness, with a generous dose of gross-out humor..."

"...A very funny movie....The leads come together with the joy and assurance of actors who know they are in material that's working....Murray is superb..."

"...Presented in a terrific procession of gag-inducing gaggery, Harrelson and Murray knock 'em dead every time..."