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CREDITS |
Directed by Jesse Dylan
Written by Leo Benvenuti and Steve Rudnick
 Cast (in credits order)
Will Ferrell .... Phil Weston
Robert Duvall .... Buck Weston
Mike Ditka .... Mike Ditka
Kate Walsh .... Barbara Weston
Musetta Vander .... Janice Weston
Dylan McLaughlin .... Sam Weston
Josh Hutcherson .... Bucky Weston
Steven Anthony Lawrence .... Mark Avery
Jeremy Bergman .... Hunter
Elliott Cho .... Byong Sun
Erik Walker .... Ambrose
Dallas McKinney .... Connor
Francesco Liotti .... Gian Piero
Alessandro Ruggiero .... Massimo
Sammy Fine .... Jack
Timmy Deters .... Alex
Rachael Harris .... Ann Hogan
Laura Kightlinger .... Donna Jones
Jim Turner .... Jim Davidson 'The Captain'
Julia Campbell .... Janet Davidson
Phill Lewis .... John Ryan
David Bowe .... Forest Avery
Matt Winston .... Tom Hanna
Susan Barnes .... Diana Ditka
Lu Elrod .... Patty
Karly Rothenberg .... Jack's Mother
Joseph R. Sicari .... Umberto
Scott Adsit .... Stew
Peter Jason .... Clark
Produced by
Judd Apatow .... executive producer
Mia Apatow .... associate producer
Daniel Lupi .... executive producer
Jim Miller .... producer
Jimmy Miller .... producer
Mary Parent .... supervising producer
Charles Roven .... producer
Lata Ryan .... executive producer
Original Music by Mark Isham, David Newman and Pinar Toprak (additional music)
Cinematography by Lloyd Ahern II and Donald E. Thorin
Film Editing by William Kerr , Stuart H. Pappé and Peter Teschner
MPAA: Rated PG for thematic elements, language and some crude humor.
Runtime: 95 min
For rating reasons, go to FILMRATINGS.COM, and MPAA.ORG.
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Kicking & Screaming: The Movie Novel
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SYNOPSIS |
 Will Ferrell ("Elf," "Old School") stars in a lively comedy about the cutthroat, hyper- competitive world...of little league soccer. "Kicking & Screaming" stars Ferrell as Phil Weston, an average Joe who's had to put up all his life with his overly competitive father, Buck (Robert Duvall). When Phil decides to coach his 10-year-old son's soccer team, he goes head-to-head for the league championship against Buck, who coaches his own young son on the preeminent team of the league. Old scores come into play as Phil and Buck find themselves going to extreme measures to win the championship trophy. |
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 Phil Weston (Will Ferrell) has a beautiful wife, a great son, and his own vitamin store. But he’s never been able to please his father Buck (Robert Duvall) when it comes to sports. He tried sports as a youngster and in college and (hilariously) crashed and burned at every attempt. Years later, when Phil’s son Sam is “traded” by his granddad to another team who’s coach has suddenly quit, Phil takes the bold step of coaching his son’s new soccer team. With a motley crew of misfit kids-including a couple of wunderkind Italian soccer geniuses, a couple of thousand cups of coffee and Super Bowl winning coach Mike Ditka in tow, Phil embarks on a journey to prove once and for all that he can stand toe to toe with his father in the sports world. It’s the opportunity he’s been waiting for all of his life! If only he could figure out just what in the world he’s doing!
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 Will Ferrell has entered a new realm of comedy: good, clean fun. In Kicking and Screaming, Ferrell, as Phil The Reluctant Soccer Dad, makes a bold move by agreeing to coach a “loser” team (the Tigers) whose greatest opponent is none other than Phil’s no-holds-barred the-only-fun-is-winning dad’s team (the Gladiators).
The tension between these two can be observed in myriad other families. Parent is an ape-gone-wild rabid (fill in the skill/talent/hobby) fan and child is either ungifted, uninterested, or both. Likewise, Phil’s father, Bucky (Duvall), is the retired athlete’s athlete—old and crusty and rude, but he can still beat his uncoordinated wimp of a son in tetherball (like that’s a major feat). So we get the distinct impression that Phil has been under his father’s competitive (yet still opposable) thumb his entire life, and would just ONCE like to be on the winning side.
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