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Article: TIRED SCRIPT OF `ED' STRIKES OUT LEBLANC IN HIS FIRST STARRING ROLE.(What's Happening)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- March 15, 1996
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Ed'' is supposedly a vehicle to launch Matt LeBlanc, one of the popular television ``Friends,'' onto the big screen. One can only hope he keeps his day job.
LeBlanc plays Jack Cooper, a farm boy pitching wonder without any confidence who is assigned to a minor league team, the Santa Rosa Rockets. Ed is a chimpanzee brought on board by the unctuous son of the team's owner, who buys Ed's contract from Mickey Mantle's estate. Or something like that.
Truth is, this baseball movie doesn't really make much sense. Nor does it cough up anything new in the over-tired genre. Everything in it has been done to death and so the filmmakers rely on an abundance of ...