Larger Than Life (1996) on Netflix
Jack Corcoran, a motivational speaker stuck with the gigs nobody wants, inherits Vera, an elephant, from the father he thought was dead. Mo and Terry Bonura both want to buy her.
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Plot summary
Jack Corcoran gives motivational speeches drawn from his book Get Over It, and the bookings he gets are the ones nobody wants. At his engagement party his agent Walter hopes one of them will lead to an infomercial. A telegram arrives from a Baltimore attorney about the estate of Jack's father Kirby, and Jack's mother admits she told him his father died when he was born. The inheritance is Vera, a trained circus elephant who toured as Kirby's act, and Jack intends to sell her. Mo, who keeps elephants at the San Diego Zoo and is about to fly a herd to Sri Lanka, and Terry Bonura, an animal trainer in Los Angeles, both want to buy the elephant.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Larger Than Life (1996)
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- Bill Murray said in 2025 that working with the well-trained elephant Tai on Larger than Life "was one of the best experience I've ever had in the movies."
- Composer Miles Goodman died two months before Larger than Life was released; the film's score was his penultimate one.
