Kicking & Screaming (2005)

Family man Phil Weston, a lifelong victim of his father's competitive nature, takes on the coaching duties of a kids' soccer team, and soon finds that he's also taking on his father's dysfunctional way of relating...

Director:

Jesse Dylan

Writers:

Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick

Stars:

Will Ferrell, Robert Duvall, Mike Ditka

6 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
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 (as Elliot Cho)
Erik Walker	...	Ambrose
Dallas McKinney	...	Connor
Francesco Liotti	...	Gian Piero
Alessandro Ruggiero	...	Massimo
Sammy Fine	...	Jack

Storyline

Family man Phil Weston, a lifelong victim of his father's competitive nature, takes on the coaching duties of a kids' soccer team, and soon finds that he's also taking on his father's dysfunctional way of relating...

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Plot Keywords:

competitiveness | stepmother | obsession | sporting goods store | uncle | 

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Taglines:

One man could lead this team to glory. . . That man was busy

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Genres:

Comedy | Family | Sport

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for thematic elements, language and some crude humor

Details

Official Sites:

Universal Pictures [us]

Country:

USA

Language:

English Italian

Release Date:

13 May 2005 (USA)

Also Known As:

Soccer Dads

Filming Locations:

Arcadia, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$45,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$143,494 (Australia) (5 August 2005)

Gross:

$1,361,382 (Australia) (2 September 2005)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Universal Pictures, Mosaic Media Group

Technical Specs

Runtime:

95 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Many of the names on the kids' jerseys are those of crew members, such as Apatow (producers Judd Apatow and Mia Apatow) and Watson (assistant director Jonathan Watson).

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Goofs

During a normal soccer game, players are not allowed to kick the ball up to and behind their necks and "carry" the ball in that manner. Also when the player lifted his team mate to head the ball into the goal is not allowed. Either of these infractions fall into dangerous play or unsportsmanlike behavior resulting in a yellow card (warning) or red card (ejection from game)

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Quotes

Buck Weston: I take a vitamin everyday. It's called a steak.

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Connections

Referenced in Strictly Background (2007)

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Soundtracks

"GET READY FOR THIS"
Written by Filip De Wilde, Jean-Paul DeCoster (as Jean-Paul De Coster) and Simon Harris

User Reviews

Decent, but not Anchorman or Elf

Kicking and Screaming was decent. Will Ferrel plays the son of a dad who WILL NOT lose to ANYONE (Robert Duvall). He takes over coaching his son's Little League soccer team and goes nuts trying to win at all costs.

Kicking & Screaming seemed like it wanted to be the Anchorman of kid's movies, but it just lost me. There were some really funny parts, one involving the team needing to help out at the Italian kids family butcher shop, but overall, it just tried to hard to be a quirky movie that adults and kids would enjoy.

All in all, not Will Ferrel's best movie, but definitely not horrible. A good saterday night rental.