The Ringer (2005 film)

• Johnny Knoxville: Steve Barker / Jeffey
• Brian Cox: Gary Barker
• Katherine Heigl: Lynn Sheridan
• Geoffrey Arend: Winston
• Edward Barbanell: Billy
• Bill Chott: Thomas
• Leonard Flowers: Jimmy
• Leonard Earl Howze: Mark
• Jed Rees: Glen

Full fooled - it's being everything (English original title The Ringer ) is a film by American director Barry W. Blaustein 's 2005 The comedy focuses on the relationship of the mentally handicapped and non-handicapped people. .

Action

The good-natured Steve Barker is forced by his boss to lay off the janitor Stavros. Since he does not bring it in my heart, it offers Stavros a job as a gardener of his house. When a work accident Stavros short time later separated 3 fingers. Since Steve had not regulated the health insurance for his new employee, he must pay the necessary operation to restore the finger. It can therefore also of his uncle stuck in need of cash to persuade the Special Olympics, a competition for the mentally disabled to manipulate by itself participates as an athlete. Everything is actually quite good until he falls in love with the tournament assistant Lynn and gets a guilty conscience. The mentally handicapped eventually train him secretly at night when they find out that he is not one of them and he told them the reason for his cheating.

Reviews

" The comedy takes bawdy humor, the ratio of the mentally handicapped and" healthy " on the grain, which they dispensed with sentimentality and not on the integration of disabled people, but from that of a " told normals ". Partially occupied with mentally disabled actors, she is breaking new ground in the cinematic exploration of disability, but it loses directorial increasingly momentum. "