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The Ringer took seven years to get made due to its controversial subject.The Special Olympics committee eventually agreed to endorse the film

The Ringer Movie User Reviews

Webxmoviesrnr :

I saw The Ringer tonight after leaving a fairly ho-hum party Christmas Eve. Not being able to find anyone remotely interested in going to a 10:25pm movie,let alone this one, I went by myself. Well, to say the Farelly Brothers did it again is an understatement.
Knoxville does an excellent job playing the role of "a high functioning, developmentally disabled, young man". You can kind of predict how things may end up-particularly with the girl, but this movie is sweet in a sappy sort of way. It also gives us an excellent bird's eye view of the Special Olympics. Truly an amazing program for the kids who participate. This is one where you can really laugh out loud, even when you are the only one. Liked it lot!

halemm1:

The only thing that made me laugh during the whole movie was how bad it was. The acting, the script, EVERYTHING. My friend and I said that this was one of the worst movies we ever saw. I think the intentions of the writers were for the audience to laugh at the actors who had a range of disabilities. I don't think their was any comedy written into the movie other than a few slapstick moments.

Doggyrun :

it's just too disturbing to watch actors pretend to be "special", also too derivative of howard stern without the funny and minus the daring the stunts in this film are tame and just look like stunts,but the film knows what it is--an unusually dumb and pointless comedy--which makes it tolerable. it has been thoroughly de-fanged and there's no edge left in it, which makes it a quirky choice for small boys to watch with their goofy parents.

The Ringer Movie Review

Of all the indignities suffered by the intellectually disabled stars of "The Ringer," none are so great as having to share screen time with Johnny Knoxville. You wouldn't guess that Mr. Knoxville, mastermind of "Jackass," would have such a hard time playing a numbskull pretending to be disabled, especially in a movie from the brains behind "Dumb and Dumber." But the real surprise of "The Ringer" is how it bucks this seemingly insurmountable handicap to wind up a fairly winning comedy.As you might surmise of a movie about the rigging of a Special Olympics competition, "The Ringer" is the latest from the Farrelly brothers, Hollywood's reigning lowbrow humanists. While they have left the writing and directing to others (Ricky Blitt and Barry W. Blaustein, respectively), the material bears their stamp. At the sweet heart of this silly film is a determination to upend the clichés and assumptions applied to the population we condescendingly label "special."Mr. Knoxville stars as Steve Barker, a former track and field competitor who finds himself, through appropriately preposterous circumstances, pressed into rigging the Special Olympics by his boorish uncle Gary (a slumming Brian Cox). After a period of research - entailing study of "Forrest Gump," "I Am Sam," "Rain Man" and (zing!) "The Best of Chevy Chase" - Steve creates the alter ego Jeffy (or "Jeffy Dahmor, with an 'O,' " as he is habitually introduced). You won't find Jeffy's particular disability in the diagnostic manuals, but any amateur can identify a chronically unfunny case of Quasimodo meets the Nutty Professor.
Once ensconced in the Special Olympic Village, Jeffy butts heads with a colorful troupe of athletes - and Mr. Knoxville finds himself in the company of one of the year's most resourceful and hilarious supporting ensembles. Disabled? Hardly. 

It's their timing, wit and impish good spirits that smarten up this otherwise brain-dead exercise.A mix of professional actors and Special Olympians, these first-rate scene-stealers are led by Jed Rees ("Galaxy Quest"), a marvelously mischievous comedian who kills off the stereotype of the disabled as guileless cutesy-pies. As the roly-poly Thomas, who checks out the ladies behind Coke-bottle glasses, Bill Chott ("Dude, Where's My Car?") offers an irresistible rebuke to the notion of the sexless handicapped. In the role of Jimmy, a bling-laden athlete who rolls up to the games in a limousine, Leonard Flowers has a hoot as a Deion Sanders-style egomaniac.It doesn't take long for the crew to out Jeffy as a fraud. Proving the only thing special about them is their fundamental normality - which is to say, their ability to plot and scheme like everyone else - the athletes see in Steve/Jeffy a chance to thwart Jimmy's historical domination of Special Olympics. All the usual big-game clichés ensue, and everyone learns the appropriate life lessons. Corny yet progressive, "The Ringer" is the "Brokeback Mountain" of disability flicks: formulaic, irresistible and memorable insofar as it advances positive representation in mainstream culture. To its credit, however, "The Ringer" is far less tasteful in its affirmations.The movie does manage to be relatively charming and intermittently funny so long as you forget the useless romance between Steve/Jeffy and Lynn (Katherine Heigl), a perky Olympic volunteer. Of course she will find out the truth, and of course the kooky sidekicks will arrange for a reconciliation. The film was, after all, made in the intellectually challenged context of Hollywood. As such, it's a forgivable case of two steps forward, one step back."The Ringer" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It contains mild foul language and slurs.

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The Ringer is a fantastic comedy movie about two guys. Steve Barker is an office dawdler and wants to switch the corporate sector. He thinks to ask his boss about his promotion. Before asking to him, he faces a problem.He finds that his colleague named Stavi needs to pay some money due to his surgery. He participates in his college Special Olympics competition and wins the running events against six-time medalist Jimmy. Furthermore, he falls in love with a pretty girl named Lynn.She works as a volunteer in his school.

The Ringer Movie Cast

Crew :

Director: Barry W. Blaustein
Writer: Ricky Blitt
Producers : Bobby Farrelly
                     Peter Farrelly

 
Cast : 

Johnny Knoxville as Steve Barker/ Jeffy Dahmor
Brian Cox as Gary Barker
Katherine Heigl as Lynn Sheridan
Jed Rees as Glen
Bill Chott as Thomas
Edward Barbanell as Billy
Leonard Earl Howze as Mark
Geoffrey Arend as Winston
John Taylor as Rudy
Luis Avalos as Stavi
Leonard Flowers as Jimmy.