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Title: Mr. Woodcock (2007)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Billy Bob Thornton | ... | Jasper Woodcock | |
| Seann William Scott | ... | John Farley | |
| Susan Sarandon | ... | Beverly Farley | |
| Amy Poehler | ... | Maggie | |
| Melissa Sagemiller | ... | Tracy | |
| Ethan Suplee | ... | Nedderman | |
| Jacob Davich | ... | Nedderman's Brother | |
| Kyley Baldridge | ... | Young Farley | |
| Alec George | ... | Young Nedderman | |
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Joseph Michael Sargent | ... | Young Watson |
| M.C. Gainey | ... | Hal - Barber #1 | |
| Brent Briscoe | ... | Barber #2 | |
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Dave Kuhr | ... | Bookish Guy |
| Lisa K. Wyatt | ... | Housewife | |
| Kurt Fuller | ... | Councilman Luke | |
Fatherless John Farley's youth frustration, even trauma, like many his school kids' in his Nebraska small town home, was the constant abuse and humiliation in sadistic Jasper Woodcock's gym class. After college, doting son John became a motivational bestseller author and returns during a book signing tour to receive the backwater's highest honor. To John's horror, his devoted mother Beverly announces her plans to marry the hated coach and he's to be celebrated on the same event as John. Only ridiculous fatso Nedderman and his strange brother try to help Farley stop Woodcock, but that keeps backfiring. Written by KGF Vissers
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"Mr. Woodcock" is one of those movies that sounds great on paper, but which loses something on its way to the big screen.
Jasper Woodcock is a sadistic high school PE teacher who, through the course of his career, has made life a veritable hell for most of the boys enrolled in his class. One of his students, an overweight kid by the name of John Farley, grows up to write a best-selling self-help book about letting go of one's past as a means of embracing one's future. When John returns to his small town Nebraska home for a visit, he's mortified to discover that this very same Mr. Woodcock has become his widowed mother's new boyfriend. Farley spends the rest of the movie doing everything he can think of to sabotage the romance, systematically violating all the precepts in the book that has made him so famous.
With few exceptions, "Mr. Woodcock" fails to exploit the black comedy potential of its material, settling for homogenized, crowd-pleasing pablum instead. That's not to say that there aren't some occasionally amusing moments in the film, only that they are too few and far between to turn the film into anything more than, at best, an average Hollywood comedy. Billy Bob Thornton, Susan Sarandon and Seann William Scott (Stifler in the "American Pie" movies) have all proved their talent and likability many times in the past, but they aren't allowed to go much beyond one-note performances in this film. However, it's nice to see veteran character actor Bill Macy ("Maude") again, very funny in his one scene as Woodcock's obnoxiously overbearing father.