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Director:
Writers:
Kristofor Brown (screenplay) &
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Release Date:
21 March 2008 (USA) more
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Plot:
Three kids hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them from the playground bully. | full synopsis
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Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
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(70 articles)
First Look: 'She's Out of My League' (Video)
 (From The Wrap. 7 January 2010, 1:58 PM, PST)

Monday Morning Quote-a-Back: Jan. 4, 2010
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I Never Wanted It to End! more (84 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Nate Hartley ... Wade

Troy Gentile ... Ryan
Ian Roberts ... Jim

Owen Wilson ... Drillbit Taylor
Casey Boersma ... Chuck
Dylan Boersma ... Nick
Lisa Ann Walter ... Dolores

Beth Littleford ... Barbara

David Koechner ... Frightened Dad

Matt Walsh ... Not for Pot Driver

Janet Varney ... Attractive Woman Driver

Lisa Lampanelli ... Ronnie's Mom
Billy O'Neill ... Dean (as Bill O'Neill)
Shaun Weiss ... Bus Driver

Jordan Valacich ... Cute Girl on Stairs (as Jordan Valley)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Drillbit Taylor: Budget Bodyguard (USA) (poster title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for crude sexual references throughout, strong bullying, language, drug references and partial nudity.
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110 min | 102 min (original version)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Adam Baldwin has a cameo as a bodyguard being interviewed. During the interview, he comments on how stupid it is for a bodyguard to protect kids from bullies, while wearing an identical costume to the one he wore in the movie My Bodyguard (1980) where he played a bodyguard to protect a fellow student from a bully. Baldwin still owns the jacket he wore in My Bodyguard and convinced Steven Brill to let him wear it. more
Goofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the fight scene at the end when Filkins throws the soda can at Ryan, the can is unopened. However, when the can hits Ryan, it makes the sound of an empty soda can. more
Quotes:
Drillbit Taylor: You'd be surprised, anything can be turned into a weapon of mayhem or destruction.
Emmit: Even a puppy?
Drillbit Taylor: Especially a puppy. The Germans used em' in World War I. De Hundin Schtorman, Lightning Dog. They'd attach dynamite to them, Rommel did it, jerry bastard...
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12 out of 20 people found the following review useful.
I Never Wanted It to End!, 12 April 2008
7/10
Author: MovieDude95 from United States

OMG! I LOVED this movie. It's the PERFECT comedy movie for kids/teens, if there's a day or night you can't seem to find anything to do. Usually, even if it's a movie I like, I still want it to end, and get up and stretch, but I NEVER wanted this one to end!! The actors in particular that I think did the best job were Josh Peck, David Dorfman, and Owen Wilson. They were GREAT!! It should be a 7.2 not a 6.1. I didn't think it was gonna be great but it was. You should TOTALLY see it, you won't be disappointed!! Even though it says "Crude Sexual References Throughout" it DEFINITELY DEFINITELY IS NOT "Throughout". And the "Partial Nudity" is just a brief shot of Drillbit's behind. And the bullying is kind of obvious, shoving into lockers etc. The drug references is just when the mother repeatedly asks her son "Are you smoking pot" Anybody 10 and Up should be able to see this and handle it just fine. It's not as bad as it sounds on the parents guide, and the parents guide isn't even really bad, so there you go. The bottom line is GO SEE IT!! It is a GREAT flick!! MPAA RATING: PG-13-For Crude Sexual References Throughout, Strong Bullying, Drug References, And Partial Nudity My Version of What It Should Be: PG-13-For SOME Sexual References, HUMOROUS Bullying, Drug References, And Partial Nudity

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Who was the kid that kinda looked like Emmit that was filming the fight Anchorman88
Alex Frost ..John Cusack clone? jaylo007
No place for this movie in a post-Columbine world colstoughton
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was this filmed before or after Owen tried to commit a suicide? thanatos304
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