Jon Lovitz will kick your ass: 20-plus unexpectedly badass performances from established non-badasses
1. Jon Lovitz, Southland Tales (2006)
Jon Lovitz came to America's attention as a bumbling sad-sack on Saturday Night Live, best known for running gags like the "Girl Watchers" series, where he and Tom Hanks played two atonal, self-denigrating drips who dismissed every woman they saw as "waaaaay out of our league." He went on to star on The Critic, playing an unpopular, shat-upon film critic who mostly drew jokes about his weight, his baldness, and his nerdy tendency to actually care about movies. His career has often traded on the fact that he has a pear-shaped body and a nasal voice, both of which he's played up in roles that focus on how nebbishy, grating, and generally laughable he is. So it was a surprise to see him in Southland Tales as a rogue cop who not only murders two people in cold blood, but then turns ...
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