Ringmaster (film)
2.8 /10 1 Votes
25% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Comedy Writer Jon Bernstein Language English | 3.1/10 IMDb Director Neil Abramson Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date November 25, 1998 Production companies Motion Picture Corporation of America, The Kushner-Locke Company Genres Comedy, Drama, Satire, Comedy-drama, Comedy of manners Cast Jerry Springer (Jerry Farrelly), Jaime Pressly (Angel Zorzak), Molly Hagan (Connie Zorzak), William McNamara (Troy Davenport), Michael Dudikoff (Rusty), Wendy Raquel Robinson (Starletta)Similar movies The Fisher King , Wayne's World 2 , Welcome to Me , The Wing and the Thigh , Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins , The Late Shift | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jerry Farrelly (Jerry Springer) hosts a controversial talk show where guests with lurid lives confront each other. After Connie (Molly Hagan) finds her daughter, Angel (Jaime Pressly), sleeping with stepfather, Rusty (Michael Dudikoff), the three are flown to Los Angeles for the program. Starletta (Wendy Raquel Robinson), her boyfriend, Demond (Michael Jai White), and the three women hes been cheating on her with also arrive for the episode. Soon, shameless Demond starts chasing after Angel.
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Ringmaster is a 1998 American comedy film starring Jerry Springer playing (essentially) himself as Jerry Farrelly, host of a show similar to his own, in this case called simply Jerry.
Jerry Springer stars as more or less himself, the host of a raunchy, controversial and popular Los Angeles talk show which features everyday people with problems and who frequently vent thrir problems on the air.
Plot
There are three ongoing plots in the film. The primary one surrounds a white trash, trailer park family in which the daughter is sleeping with her mothers husband, prompting the mother to constantly try to outdo her promiscuous daughters behavior out of spite, including sleeping with her daughters boyfriend. The secondary plot revolves around an urban black woman whose boyfriend is sleeping with her two best friends, but the three are united against the boyfriend when he begins sleeping with the daughter of the above mentioned family. The third plot revolves around Jerry and the show itself, detailing the difficulty Jerry faces in trying to come to terms with his rather dubious claim to fame, and the staffs utter amazement at the bizarre stories they must deal with.
A minor sub-plot involves a producer on the show who mistakenly picks up one of the guests, a self-proclaimed "man-by-day-woman-by-night."
Cast
Reception
The film had a generally negative reception, with Rotten Tomatoes giving it a 22% rating. Jerry Springers performance in Ringmaster won him the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst New Star (tied with Joe Eszterhas for his small cameo in An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn).
Similar Movies
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Soundtrack
A soundtrack containing hip hop music was released on March 23, 1999 by Lil Joe Records. It peaked at #80 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.
References
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