domestic comedy
directed
by : Craig Gillespie featuring
: Billy Bob Thornton - Seann William Scott - Susan Sarandon - Amy
Poekler - Ethan Suplee running
time : 1 hour 27 minutesEvery junior-high geek's worst nightmare
becomes a reality in this comedy. John Farley (Seann William Scott) grew
up as a chubby kid with no athletic skills and poor self-esteem, and during
his early teenage years his nemesis was Mr. Woodcock (Billy Bob Thornton),
his junior-high gym teacher, who took a sadistic glee in tormenting John
and others like them. Years later, John has slimmed down, come to terms
with his self-image, and become a best-selling author, publishing a self-help
book on overcoming the specters of the past. John comes home to visit his
widowed mother, Beverly (Susan Sarandon), and discovers she has a surprise
for him -- she's getting married again, and her new fiancée is none
other than Mr. Woodcock. Horrified, John is determined to keep Beverly
from walking down the aisle with Woodcock, and along the way finds himself
struggling to settle some old scores. Mr. Woodcock also stars Amy Poehler
as John's publicist and Ethan Suplee as John's old friend Needleman.
