Product Information
When a man discovers that his mother is going to marry the gym teacher who made his high school days a torturous experience he travels home, determined to prevent the wedding at all costs.Product Identifiers
EAN5017239194764
eBay Product ID (ePID)63465614
Product Key Features
ActorBill Macy, Amy Poehler, Susan Sarandon, Seann William Scott, Billy Bob Thornton
Film/TV TitleMr. Woodcock
DirectorCraig Gillespie
LanguageEnglish
Run Time84 Mins
Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Release Year2008
FormatDVD
FeaturesWidescreen, Deleted/Alternate Scenes\Making Of\P.E Trauma Tales\Trailer
GenreGeneral, Comedy
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate12A/12
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
Additional InformationWith BAD SANTA, Billy Bob Thornton proved he was willing to go all the way--no holds barred--in portraying unsympathetic, foulmouthed jerks. Here he brings that same skill to bear as the title character, a sadistic junior high school gym teacher who is every uncoordinated or overweight student's worst nightmare. Best-selling author of self-help books, Farley (Sean William Scott) thinks the tortures he's suffered at the hands of Woodcock are just the stuff of traumatic childhood memory (such as being told, 'You are a disgrace to fat, gelatinous kids the world over'), until he goes home to Nebraska to pick up an award and learns his widowed mother (Susan Sarandon) is in love with the man who made him miserable all those years ago. Farley recruits his unkempt buddy (Ethan Suplee) in a series of backfiring schemes to wreak some belated vengeance and expose Woodcock before the nuptials are sealed.<BR>There's plenty of nasty repartee between Scott and Thornton and some funny-disturbing bits from side characters, like Farley's ferocious publicist (Amy Poehler) and Bill Macy as Woodcock's even more sadistic father. Sarandon brings a lot of touching innocence to the table as a sheltered widow daring to feel love again, and Scott does some nice squirming and pratfalls. But of course it's Thornton's movie all the way--he grabs the ball and never lets it go, unless of course it's to hurl it at some poor kid's head.
ReviewsThe Times - Thornton is magnificent as the unrepentant monster.
Sound sourceDolby Digital
Movie/TV TitleMr. Woodcock
Consumer AdviceContains moderate sex references and language