
After con artist Eddie Sullivan (Feuerstein) incurs a large debt with a local criminal ringleader, he creates a get-rich-quick scheme and enlists a sweet gentle giant named Walter (Wight) as his unwitting accomplice. Walter's orphanage -- the only home he's ever known -- also needs funds desperately. Upon overhearing Walter's predicament, Eddie convinces the no-nonsense head nun, Sister Francesca (Malick), that Walter can win the money as a fighter and pay off the church's de... (Full plot summary below)
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After con artist Eddie Sullivan (Feuerstein) incurs a large debt with a local criminal ringleader, he creates a get-rich-quick scheme and enlists a sweet gentle giant named Walter (Wight) as his unwitting accomplice. Walter's orphanage -- the only home he's ever known -- also needs funds desperately. Upon overhearing Walter's predicament, Eddie convinces the no-nonsense head nun, Sister Francesca (Malick), that Walter can win the money as a fighter and pay off the church's debts. Eddie's plan: travel from town to town with Walter and enter small, unsanctioned fighting competitions for prize money Sister Francesca dispatches Mary (Hardin) as a chaperone for both Walter and the money and gives Eddie a week - and a prayer - to make it happen. During their journey across the south to the annual Pro-Am MMA tournament in New Orleans, Walter discovers what life is like outside the orphanage, while Eddie becomes morally conflicted over whether to take all the loot for himself or keep his promise to Walter, the one person he can actually call a friend.
Leave your thoughts about Knucklehead.
| New York TimesMike HaleA number of talented performers are stymied by this mediocre material. |
| VarietyJohn AndersonKnucklehead has a professional slickness about it, flawless shooting by d.p. Kenneth Zunder, and Johnston's perfectly cloying score. The acting leaves a bit to be desired: Malick is hilarious; Wight is endearing; Rebecca Creskoff ("Hung"), who plays Mary's friend and fellow ex-"dancer," is refreshingly natural. |
| Orlando SentinelRoger MooreDirector Michael W. Watkins, whose decades of TV credits go back to "Quantum Leap," manages one clever visual gag - a bus wreck, observed from the far side of a cornfield. We hear a crunch, see a telephone pole wobble and a little puff of smoke. Then Watkins blows the moment with a fiery overkill. |
| ComingSoon.netEdward DouglasThe perfect follow-up to "Jackass" if only because it's equally moronic, although in this case, it's not even remotely funny. |
| NewsBlazePrairie MillerThe ho-hum premise picks up steam as the goofy humor escalates during the course of this bumpy road movie. Kicking off with a synagogue showdown with the infamous Kosher Killer, and later fearsome female sidebars including sisters of mercy who nun up. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris HewittWight is appealing, but let's hope he gets better opportunities than this. |
| New York PostKyle SmithA 2010 movie that could have been made in 1940. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThis lame comedy about a big doofus who enters the fight game manages to take every cliche in the book and render them even more cliched. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris Hewitt (St. Paul)Wight is appealing, but let's hope he gets better opportunities than this. |
| New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierHalf-assed, halfhearted attempt to copy the Farrellys' out-there style is missing both their jackassical riffs and their heart. |