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Director:
Writer (WGA):
John Scott Shepherd (written by)
Release Date:
21 December 2001 (USA) more
Tagline:
A Comedy About Somebody Everybody Can Believe In. more
Plot:
When Joe is beat up by a co-worker in front of his daughter on "Bring Your Child To Work Day", he decides to fight back. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(4 articles)
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User Comments:
Definitely a "guy" film, but a good one. more (83 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Tim Allen | ... | Joe Scheffer |
 | Julie Bowen | ... | Meg Harper |
 | Kelly Lynch | ... | Callie Scheffer |
 | Greg Germann | ... | Jeremy |
 | Hayden Panettiere | ... | Natalie Scheffer |
 | Patrick Warburton | ... | Mark McKinney |
 | James Belushi | ... | Chuck Scarett (as Jim Belushi) |
 | Ken Marino | ... | Rick Raglow |
 | Wolfgang Bodison | ... | Cade Raymond |
 | Cristi Conaway | ... | Abby Manheim |
 | Robert Joy | ... | Pat Chilcutt |
 | Tina Lifford | ... | Cassandra Taylor |
| James Cada | ... | Exec. Bill |
| Tawnja Zahradka | ... | Waver 'Tawnja' |
| Ahna Brandvik | ... | Neva |
Additional Details
MPAA:
Rated PG for language, thematic elements and some mild violence.
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Runtime:
98 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:L | USA:PG (certificate #38706) | Canada:PG | France:U | Germany:o.Al. | Spain:T | Sweden:11 | UK:PG | Singapore:PG | Brazil:Livre
Filming Locations:
Conner's Deli - 5411 Penn Avenue S., Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA more
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Trivia:
One of the movie posters in the martial arts studio features the real-life wife of the film's director, JoBeth Williams. more
Goofs:
Continuity: Near the end when Joe meets Meg in the parking lot to confess his feelings, immediately before she gets out of the pickup, she's got her seat belt on. In the next shot, through the passenger side window, the belt is no longer on. more
Quotes:
Joe Scheffer:
Did you have fun?
Natalie Scheffer:
Weekend from hell. They took me to another silly-ass hippie restaurant.
Natalie Scheffer:
With thee most absurd one-man play ever produced!
Joe Scheffer:
"Silly-ass"?
Natalie Scheffer:
Dad...
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Movie Connections:
References Wo hu cang long (2000) more
Soundtrack:
Songbird more
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Joe wanted to make movies, but ended up making commercials for a big pharmaceutical firm. We understand that his work is quite good, but Joe is a "nice" guy. Not a fighter. He doesn't fight for promotions like others do, so he is taken for granted and they can barely remember his name. He didn't even fight when his materialistic wife dumped him for a much younger, and empty headed actor. But he loves his 12-year-old daughter so much that he has turned her into a tomboy. It's a "guy" fantasy, remember, so he and his daughter love nothing so much as professional sports. But then something happens that shames him in front of the kid, and the only way he can go forward is to learn to fight back. That's the setup, but the way he deals with it is what makes it a good film. On the downside, all the tail licking over the sports shtick gets tiresome at times, as though there was something spiritually transcendent about shooting a ball through a hoop, but then it can't really be a "guy" film without the obligatory jock strap, right?