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Ed (1996)

Ed Directed by
Bill Couturi�

Writing credits (WGA)
Ken Richards (story) and
Janus Cercone (story) ...
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Genre: Comedy / Family / Sport (more)

Tagline: Minor league. Major friendship. (more)

User Comments: Dire children's movie that contains every clich� in the book (more)

User Rating: ***_______ 2.4/10 (934 votes) Vote Here bottom 100: #35

Cast overview, first billed only:
Matt LeBlanc .... Jack 'Deuce' Cooper
Gene Ross .... Red
Paul Hewitt .... Bucky
Sage Allen .... Cooper's Mother
Stan Ivar .... Cooper's Father
Jim O'Heir .... Art
Rick Johnson .... Kurt 'Crush' Bunyon
Valente Rodriguez .... Jesus Rodriquez
Jack Warden .... Chubb
Bill Cobbs .... Tipton
Leonard Kelly-Young .... Customer (Joe)
Jayne Brook .... Lydia
Patrick Kerr .... Kirby
James Caviezel .... Dizzy Anderson
Troy Evans .... Bus Driver
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MPAA: Rated PG for language, crude humor and brief mild violence.
Runtime: 94 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color
Sound Mix: DTS
Certification: USA:PG (certificate #34310) / Iceland:L / Finland:K-8 (video premiere) / UK:PG (video premiere)

Trivia: Matt Le Blanc, best known for his role on "Friends", happens on a Friends episode on TV in this film. (more)

Quotes: Jack "Duece" Cooper: I am going to spank that monkey! (more)

Awards: 3 nominations (more)
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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
Dire children's movie that contains every clich� in the book, 6 July 2003
Author: bob the moo from Birmingham, UK

Jack Cooper is a pitcher on a minor league baseball team, hoping for a crack at the majors. Sadly his pitching, so perfect in practice, is way off in the games. Things get worse for him when the team drafts in a new mascot � a monkey, Ed, and Cooper is selected to room with him. However Ed turns out to much more valuable to both the team and Cooper.

This film was shown in the UK at 11:30 at night! This was why I had taped it as I assumed it was more for adults than children, after all Clint Eastwood had done a couple of films with a monkey in it � so why not? Watching I was left baffled as to why it was on so late at night when clearly the only people who would want to see it are children who will laugh at the sight of a monkey eating ice cream and dressing up. The plot is pointless here and no child would care anyway � if you can't guess what will happen at the end then you are a fool! Will Cooper ever pitch again? What side will the coin fall on? Will Cooper and Ed bond? All these are givens and there is no enjoyment from watching the plot unfold exactly as you know it would.

While we're talking about lazy writing, how about the fact that every scene is a clich�. We have the monkey dressing up and causing mayhem etc � every scene feels like it is a template to which a baseball film has been applied! None of it is funny (for adults anyway) and must of it is just puerile � I laughed once and half-laughed another time. The laugh was Cooper saying `oh, I'm gonna spank that monkey' and the half was Ed watching TV and seeing the episode of Friends with a monkey in it. Other than this there is nothing.

Part of the film's problem is that Ed looks like two things � and neither of them is a likeable monkey. First he never for once looks or moves like anything other than a guy in a monkey suit. Secondly his face and his expressions make him look like a slightly crazy old man � I wondered if children would take to this character or be slightly freaked out by him. Matt LeBlanc plays a character in the mould of Joey � but without the good writers to support him. He plays second fiddle to a monkey and you can see that the confidence and comfort he enjoys in Friends, is absent here. How people like Cobb, Warden and Caviezel must feel watching this is anyone's guess � I suppose they were looking at it being a really big kids movie with the star of Friends, how could they lose?

Overall I found this a rather dire experience. Ed has no personality and looks really creepy and the comedy and plot are both as unimaginative as you'd expect them to be. To be a good kids' film this needed to have a bit of spark to it � instead it brings to mind the fading embers on a dying fire.

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