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Mr. Woodcock (DVD, 2008, Full Frame & Widescreen) 
Mr. Woodcock (DVD, 2008, Full Frame & Widescreen)

 
Mr. Woodcock (DVD, 2008, Full Frame & Widescreen)

Director: Craig Gillespie
Rating: Rated PG-13
Release Date: Jan 2008
Format: DVD
Additional Info: Full Frame & Widescreen
UPC: 794043113352
Product ID: EPID64145935
Description: With 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...
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With 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. 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.

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Producer:Bob Cooper, David Dobkin
Cast:Ethan Suplee

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Edition:Full Frame & Widescreen

Editorial Reviews
"MR. WOODCOCK has an excellent premise and some funny one-liners....Susan Sarandon plays the mother, Beverly, just right."
Sight and Sound - Anna Wood (12/01/2007)

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    Top Reviews
      Susan Saradon Steals The Show About Clashing Male Egos
    Review created: 10/03/08
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    51 of 52 people found this review helpful.

    Mr. Woodcock (Billy Bob Thornton) is a real jerk of a jr. high gym teacher who abuses boys for decades before falling in love with one of his most abused grown student's, Farley (Sean William Scott) widowed mother (Susan Sarandon).

    Farley's become a best-selling self-help author who cannot take his own advice once it comes to Coach Woodcock marrying his mom. It's great to actually have a film portray men as narcissistic ego maniacs who think through their Mr. Woodcocks!

    Other reviewers will call this Thornton's film. It's not. Susan Sarandon is the only character with whom to sympathize. She's caught between her fiancee's & her son's male rivalry. The redeeming messages of the film are delivered through her character's lines. The film centers around her since both men want to be her protector. It's she who teaches them both key lessons about being the kind of men a woman like her enjoys being with. Sarandon is terrific playing everyday women like this one. Her role was the roughest one to portray. Any actor could act like the 2 stupid brutes both men became Why Thornton is credited more than Saradon is short sighted.

    Like "Fargo," each male in the show is depicted as flawed due to over-inflated machismo drives. Too true!~


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