Mr. Woodcock

• Billy Bob Thornton: Jasper Woodcock
• Seann William Scott: John Farley
• Susan Sarandon: Beverly Farley
• Amy Poehler: Maggie Hoffman
• Melissa Sage Miller: Tracy
• Ethan Suplee: Nedderman
• Jacob Davich: Brother Neddermans
• Kyley Baldridge: Young John Farley
• Alec George: Young Nedderman
• Joseph Michael Sargent: Young Watson

Mr. Woodcock is an American comedy film from the year 2007. Directed by Craig Gillespie, the screenplay is by Michael Carnes and Josh Gilbert.

Action

John Farley was fat as a child, so his sports teacher Jasper Woodcock him - like most of his fellow students - made ​​life difficult. The adult Farley learns that his widowed mother Beverly has a relationship with Woodcock. Beverly wants to marry Woodcock what her son indignantly.

John is trying to make friends with his future step-father and accompanied him throughout the day. He learns in a nursing home Woodcocks know father, whose character is corrupt through and through. Woodcock trained with the old people in the pool, but an elderly man in a wheelchair is on the pool deck and does not respond to go on Woodcocks offer into the water. This feels ridiculed and throws it unceremoniously into the pool. John wants to save the man from drowning; However, it turns out that the man can swim well. When rescue attempt, he is knocked unconscious by the man. John himself is pulled from the pool and artificially ventilated. In order to find evidence that Woodcock is not the proper husband, John Woodcock Ex investigated.

At the fair, the two provide some competitions, Woodcock can win but even as a loser in the corn cob eating contest, because John his satisfaction once Mr. Woodcock allows to have conquered end in an embarrassing cheers. When selecting Woodcock for Teacher of the Year is John too much. He can not believe that all those present Woodcock like. When John is at the lectern, he uses the opportunity to rant about Woodcock. This is the live audience no consent. Of course, John's mother is now mad at him.

In a television program to help promote his new book he relies on live TV broadcasting, to smooth things over again. A clarifying discussion with Woodcock ends in a wrestling match, in which Woodcock seriously injured. On the way to the hospital, the two wrestlers come closer and John realizes that maybe Woodcock is the right one for his mother. John Woodcock brings on a movable carrier to Beverly and Woodcock and they get along again. At Christmas, John Farley published his new book " Backbone " ( backbone ).

Reviews

Justin Chang mocked in the magazine Variety of 13 September 2007, the repeated recitation of the word Woodcock was funnier than this movie. The portrayal of Billy Bob Thornton make the result a bit better.

Background

The film was shot in Los Angeles, Pomona (California), Santa Clarita (California ) and Santa Paula ( California). He started in the cinemas of the USA on 14 September 2007 and played there until November 4, 2007, approximately 25.6 million U.S. dollars. In addition, the DVD has already been released in the U.S., there so far over 30 million U.S. dollar played a.