Tagline: Letting go of your past is hard… especially when it’s dating your mom.
When a young man finds out that his mother is being remarried, he returns home, but soon finds out that she must stop the wedding plans when he learns that she’s planning on marrying his old gym teacher, Mr. Woodcock (Billy Bob Thornton), who tormented him in high school.
Billy Bob Thornton, Seann William Scott, and Susan Sarandon star in the outrageous comedy “Mr. Woodcock”. Scott stars as John Farley, a self-help author who returns to his hometown only to discover that his mother (Sarandon) has fallen in love with his old high school nemesis, Mr. Woodcock (Thornton) – the gruff, no-nonsense gym teacher who had put him through years of mental and physical humiliation. Determined to prevent history from repeating itself, John sets out to stop his mother from marrying the man who had made life miserable for him and his classmates.
Production notes provided by New Line Cinema.
Mr. Woodcock
Starring: Seann William Scott, Billy Bob Thornton, Susan Sarandon, Ethan Suplee, Amy Poehler, Emily Wagner, Evan Helmuth
Directed by: Craig Gillespie
Screenplay by: Michael Carnes, Josh Gilbert
Release: September 14, 2007
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for crude and sexual content, thematic material, language and a mild drug reference.
Studio: New Line Cinema
Box Office Totals
Domestic: $25,799,486 (78.1%)
Foreign: $7,235,759 (21.9%)
Total: $33,035,245 (Worldwide)