The fifth "Ernest" film in seven years (with a sixth, ERNEST GOES TO SCHOOL, already in the can and scheduled for an August '94 release), this is the first without Disney's major-studio muscle behind it, and it shows.
A janitor at fictitious southern J. Quentin University, Ernest P. (Powertools) Worrell lives in his own Indiana Jones fantasy world of someday finding a valuable antiquity and becoming rich and famous. Abner (Ron James), a history professor at the university and Ernest's only friend, has a
theory that the true crown jewels of England may be hidden in a giant Revolutionary War cannon buried somewhere near the university. He is mocked by everybody ...
Released:
1993
Rated:
PG
Length:
99 mins