Kicking & Screaming is a 2005 comedy film directed by Jesse Dylan starring Will Ferrell and Robert Duvall. It focuses on the exploits of a boys' soccer team and their new coach. Phil Weston , is an average person who had to endure his father Buck Weston's over-competitiveness throughout his childhood, an upbringing which has left permanent mental scars. Now middle-aged and married, with a young son named Sam, Phil runs a small vitamin store, while Buck operates a local chain of sports stores. Buck is coach of the Gladiators, the most successful little-league soccer team in the district.... Sam is on Buck's soccer team, but to his dad's annoyance his grandfather keeps him on the bench, a humiliation he also visited upon his son decades prior. Buck eventually transfers Sam to the Tigers, the league's worst team. At Sam's first game with his new team their coach is absent. Rather than forfeit, Phil decides to coach the team, a position he takes up permanently. However, despite Phil's best efforts the team does not seem to improve. In desperation Phil recruits Mike Ditka , who is Buck's neighbor and hated enemy.
more
| Release date: | May 1, 2005 |
| Directed by: | Jesse Dylan |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 95 Minutes |
| Producer: | Jimmy Miller |
| Editor: | Stuart H. Pappé, Peter Teschner |
| Music by: | Mark Isham |
| Cinematography: | Lloyd Ahern II |
| Screenplay by: | Steve Rudnick, Leo Benvenuti |
| Estimated budget: | $40,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |