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Dealing with a sociopathic school bully, three high school freshmen hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them, not realizing he is just a homeless beggar and petty thief looking for some easy cash.
Comedyprisonhigh schoolbeachjealousyhomeless personparent child relationshipfightbodyguardnerdprotectionbullyingsubstitute teacher
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Character
Contemporary, comic, classical in form and unpretentious.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- effortlessdemanding
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Cast
- Owen WilsonDrillbit Taylor
- Leslie MannLisa
- Nate HartleyWade
- Troy GentileRyan
- David DorfmanEmmit
- Alex FrostFilkins
- Josh PeckRonnie
- Casey BoersmaChuck
- Dylan BoersmaNick
- Lisa Ann WalterDolores
Crew
- Steven BrillDirector
- Kristofor BrownScreenplay
- Seth RogenScreenplay
- Fred MurphyDirector of Photography
- Christophe BeckOriginal Music Composer
- Thomas J. NordbergEditor
- Donna RothProducer
- Judd ApatowProducer
- Susan ArnoldProducer
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