Ed (1996)
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0% of critics liked it
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25% of users liked it
(9,199 ratings)
If, in the world of the movies, a dog can play basketball and a donkey can play football, why can't a chimp play baseball? That question is answered in the family comedy Ed. Jack "Deuce" Cooper (Matt LeBlanc) is a struggling baseball pitcher who has great natural talent but keeps… More If, in the world of the movies, a dog can play basketball and a donkey can play football, why can't a chimp play baseball? That question is answered in the family comedy Ed. Jack "Deuce" Cooper (Matt LeBlanc) is a struggling baseball pitcher who has great natural talent but keeps choking under pressure. Traded to a class A minor league team, Deuce is appalled to discover his third baseman -- and roommate on the road -- is a chimpanzee named Ed Sullivan. While Ed can actually hold his own on the diamond, Deuce feels there's something a bit undignified about having to look after a monkey, and it doesn't help that Ed has poor hygiene and a chronic case of flatulence. Ed was Matt LeBlanc's first starring vehicle following his success on the TV series Friends. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Bill Couturié
- Genres
- Comedy, Kids & Family
PG,
- In Theaters
- Mar 15, 1996 Wide
- Studio
- MCA Universal Home Video
Critic Reviews
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Todd McCarthy, Variety
Might tolerably amuse the under-10 crowd, but will prove borderline intolerable for everyone else.
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Desson Thomson, Washington Post
The movie is breathtakingly unadventurous, with its cheesy story line, hackneyed ballpark-fable sentiments, "adorable" animal and collection of one-dimensional human nincompoops, headed by Matt LeBlanc
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Stephen Holden, New York Times
Mr. LeBlanc ... is so blank that the only impression he makes is of having teeth that are very large and unnaturally white.
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Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle
It's forgettable matinee fodder.
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, Entertainment Weekly
Why Bill Couturie, who produced the affecting AIDS-quilt docu Common Threads, took on this howler is as mysterious as the theory of evolution. Why LeBlanc gave up hiatus for the role is as mysterious as Hollywood.
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Cast
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Matt LeBlanc
as Jack Cooper
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Jayne Brook
as Lydia
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Jack Warden
as Chubb
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Bill Cobbs
as Tippet
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Doren Fein
as Liz
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Jay Caputo
as Ed Sullivan
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Patrick Kerr
as Kirby Woods
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Denise Cheshire
as Ed Sulliva
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Philip Bruns
as Clarence
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Jim Caviezel
as Dizzy Anderson
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Mike McGlone
as Oliver Barnett
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Valente Rodriguez
as Jesus Rodriguez
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Charlie Schlatter
as Buddy Halsten
- Doren Fien
- Gene Ross
- Jim O'Heir
- Paul Hewitt
- Rick Johnson
- Sage Allen
- Stan Ivar
