12 Actors Who Were Brilliant In Utterly Sh*t Movies
9. Bill Murray - Larger Than Life
Its the done thing at the moment to proclaim your love for the legend that is Bill Murray and rightly so. Able to inject an unrivalled level of pathos into comedic roles while delivering enjoyably irreverent performances, theres no one quite like him. Unfortunately, not every movie can be a Lost In Translation or a Life Aquatic but that doesnt mean Bill himself is any less watchable.
Somehow this remains true in a movie about a motivational speaker who is forced to go on a road trip with an elephant. The 90s were a simpler time. Murray plays Jack Corcoran, who through a series of wacky circumstances inherits Vera (the aforementioned grey behemoth) and must travel across the country so that she can be flown to Sri Lanka with a herd of other elephants.
Despite casting the usually hilarious Janeane Garofalo and having Matthew McConaughey play a paranoid trucker, the film would have fallen flat if not for Murrays performance as Corcoran. Utilising his mastery of understated characterisation, he somehow manages to ground the ridiculous plot while also introducing the right amount of levity to the situation. If nothing else, it proves that Bill Murray is great no matter what hes in unless you count his inexplicable decision to star two animated Garfield abominations.