Mr. Woodcock (2007)

Director:

Craig Gillespie

Writers (WGA):

Michael Carnes (written by) &
Josh Gilbert (written by)

Release Date:

14 September 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Sport

Tagline:

Letting Go Of Your Past Is Hard... Especially When It's Dating Your Mom.

Plot:

Taken aback by his mother's wedding announcement, a young man returns home in an effort to stop her from marrying his old high school gym teacher, a man who made high school hell for generations of students. |

Plot Keywords:

Self Help Guru | Grudge | Swimming Pool | Prologue | Ambulance

Cast

Billy Bob Thornton	...	Jasper Woodcock
Seann William Scott	...	John Farley
Susan Sarandon	...	Beverly Farley
Amy Poehler	...	Maggie
Melissa Sagemiller	...	Tracy
Ethan Suplee	...	Nedderman
Jacob Davich	...	Nedderman's Brother
Kyley Baldridge	...	Young Farley
Alec George	...	Young Nedderman
Joseph Michael Sargent	...	Young Watson
M.C. Gainey	...	Hal - Barber #1
Brent Briscoe	...	Barber #2
Dave Kuhr	...	Bookish Guy
Lisa K. Wyatt	...	Housewife
Kurt Fuller	...	Councilman Luke

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content, thematic material, language and a mild drug reference.

Runtime:

USA:87 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | SDDS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Canada:G (Quebec) | South Korea:15 | Taiwan:PG-12 | Argentina:13 | Singapore:PG (edited version) | USA:PG-13 (certificate #42285) | Philippines:R-13 | UK:12A | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Ireland:15A | Finland:K-11 | Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba) | Singapore:NC-16

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Avery Pix

Trivia:

Billy Bob Thorton broke his foot during filming, while wrestling in a scene with Seann William Scott.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Farley is a kid, he has blue eyes. When he is an adult, his eyes are brown.

Quotes:

Nedderman: What's next, the Hitler Calzone?

Movie Connections:

Featured in Pick Up the Pace: Making 'Mr. Woodcock' (2008) (V)

Soundtrack:

Who Do You Love

Diving to Miss the Dodgeballs of Life.

Successful novelist Seann William Scott returns to his hometown to be honored for his career. His mother (Susan Sarandon) now dates the titled character (Billy Bob Thornton), Scott's former gym teacher who forever tormented and belittled him as a husky youth. Thus Scott must now break the two up and forever exorcise Thorton from his life and his past. Nickel and dime production of the simplest sort with admittedly bigger names than usual. Thornton's dead-pan, dead-eye approach is funny and effective to an extent. However, he lacks the material he had in similar ventures ("Bad Santa"). Sarandon seems like she is in the wrong movie all together and Scott still has that "American Pie" tendency to annoy rather than entertain the masses. Not bad for a chuckle and short enough to be painless, but it hardly makes a cinematic impression at all. 2.5 out of 5 stars.