DRILLBIT TAYLOR

Year: 2008
USA: Paramount Pictures
UK: Paramount Pictures UK
Cast: Owen Wilson, Leslie Mann, David Dorfman, Danny McBride, Josh Peck, Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley, Alex Frost, Ian Roberts, Casey Boersma, Adam Baldwin, Robert 'Bonecrusher' Mukes, Frank Whaley, Valerie Tian, Dylan Boersma, Lisa Ann Walter, Beth Littleford, David Koechner, Steven Brill
Director: Steven Brill
Country: USA
UK: 102 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for crude sexual references throughout, strong bullying, language, drug references and partial nudity
UK Certificate: 12A contains moderate violence, language, and drug and sex references
USA Release Date: 21 March 2008
UK Release Date: 28 March 2008


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Synopsis

From producers Judd Apatow (THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN), Susan Arnold and Donna Arkoff Roth (GROSSE POINT BLANK), director Steven Brill (WITHOUT A PADDLE) and screenwriters Kristofor Brown (BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD) and Seth Rogen (SUPERBAD) comes a fresh comedy about three young outcasts confronting their high school misfortunes with the help of a down-and-out soldier of fortune.

It all begins on the first day of high school, when a trio of anxious freshmen - chubby Ryan (Troy Gentile, NACHO LIBRE), freakishly skinny Wade (newcomer Nate Hartley) and their shrimpy tagalong, Emmit (David Dorfman, THE RING) - become the instant target of the school's ultimate school bully, Filkins (Alex Frost, ELEPHANT). As what they were hoping to be the best years of their lives are suddenly turned into a daily living hell, the boys realise they have only one choice - to hire their own personal bodyguard.

Enter Drillbit Taylor (Owen Wilson), not the best but definitely the cheapest of the mercenaries, hit men and bodyguards who answer their online ad. Drillbit is steely, dangerous and skilled in covert black-ops and exotic martial arts. He's also a complete fraud…