The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray: A Critical Appreciation of the World's Finest Actor by Robert Schnakenberg

Author:Robert Schnakenberg [Schnakenberg, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781594748226
Publisher: Quirk Books
Published: 2015-09-15T06:00:00+00:00

MAN WHO KNEW TOO LITTLE, THE

DIRECTED BY: Jon Amiel

WRITTEN BY: Robert Farrar and Howard Franklin

RELEASE DATE: November 14, 1997

FILM RATING: *

MURRAY RATING: *

PLOT: While visiting his brother in London, a dullard is mistaken for a secret agent.

STARRING BILL MURRAY AS: Wallace Ritchie, dim-witted American tourist

“I’ve never made any horrible, horrible movies,” Murray once declared. Apparently he never saw The Man Who Knew Too Little. Though not as mind-meltingly aggravating as Scrooged, this witless 1997 comedy is one of the lowlights of his career. It’s hard to believe the same man who stole scenes in Kingpin just a year earlier said yes to this misbegotten mélange of Hitchcock and Maxwell Smart.

Based on Robert Farrar’s unpublished 1989 novella Watch That Man, The Man Who Knew Too Little follows the misadventures of a Des Moines video store clerk who stumbles into a web of intrigue during a trip to London. The feeble one-joke premise hinges on a series of misunderstandings straight out of the Three’s Company playbook. Murray had successfully portrayed mentally damaged characters before, most notably in Caddyshack and What about Bob?, but his talents are wasted here. As dull-witted patsy Wallace Ritchie, he is essentially playing the Dean Jones role in one of those live-action Disney movies from the 1970s.

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