While "The Ringer" is distributed by Fox Searchlight, it often feels like the film "Pumpkin" would have become had it been produced by a major studio. Thus, a tasteless experiment in fraud is swiftly turned into a desperate act of nobility as Steve explores his only options for raising the money to help Stavi and an uncle also an uncle with a gambling debt. This in turn (in fine Farrelly fashion) leads to a lawnmower mishap resulting in the potential loss of Stavi's fingers. His boss promotes him immediately by saying "Go fire the janitor." The firing goes badly for the non-assertive Steve, and Stavi ends up hired with benefits to mow the lawn at Steve's condo. In a spontaneous moment of self-empowerment, Steve barges into his boss's office and demands a promotion. We meet Steve as he is talking to himself along with a self-empowerment tape (voiced by Jesse Ventura) in his work cubicle. The fact that I am considering my lifelong relationship with the word "special" speaks volumes about the quality and heart of "The Ringer," a film in which Knoxville plays Steve Barker, a man who poses as a mentally disabled man so that he can "fix" the Special Olympics. I've avoided the "Special Olympics" for that very reason, participating only once, and even the "Paralympics" seems somehow condescending.Īfter watching Johnny Knoxville's unexpected hit film, "The Ringer," I am facing the prospect that I may actually have been wrong all these years. From early childhood, I've developed a sort of detached relationship with words such as special, disabled, challenged and/or any other word that tries to imply that I am, in fact, somehow less than you. With Debbie's life tugging at her in opposite directions, she and Noah have to decide if they being married to each other and living in quaint Youngstown are in the cards for them, despite their love for each other.I always have. However, the closer the wedding approaches, the more music business opportunities come Debbie's way. Because of their commitments to the school, they have to plan their wedding quickly to coincide with the summer break while being able to squeeze in a honeymoon to Paris. So when he asks her to marry him, she accepts. The main part of her happiness in Youngstown is falling in love with the school's guidance counselor, Noah Burns. But close to one year later and having been provided an opportunity to reenter the business, she sees Youngstown, teaching the music program and running the music studio as her life. Youngstown, Ohio and teaching at Youngstown High was supposed to be a short stop in Debbie Taylor's life as she figured out a way to get back into the pop music business, of which she has been a part since she was fifteen. As they see each other at subsequent weddings and start to spend other (non-wedding) time together, they start to fall for each other, but neither realizes how the other feels. Brooke and Nate recognize each other from a few somewhat-awkward previous encounters, and by the second wedding they have agreed to be wedding buddies to keep each other from those potential romantic-wannabe situations initiated by fellow wedding guests. But in the fourth wedding, both are in the wedding party for their good friends Ginny and Greg-who both believe that Brooke and Nate would be a good match. In an environment where there is pressure for singles to find romance at such events, both Brooke and Nate wish to avoid these romantic possibilities, and Brooke has also decided to stop dating for the summer to focus on herself. Neither has a plus-one either Brooke has just broken up with Colin, which makes work life awkward because they're still business partners, and Nate is still recovering from his last long-term relationship, which ended just short of the altar. During wedding season, strangers Brooke Etheridge, a physical therapist, and Nate Thomas, physical therapist and high-end classic-car restorer, are each attending four weddings on four consecutive weeks each solely knows either the bride or the groom (or the bride or the bride, in one case).
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