Kicking and Screaming
Upon taking the mission of training a soccer team of kids, Phil Wetson, an ordinary sports trainer, who throughout his childhood suffers from the competitive and hard life he has with his father's personality, finds himself act like his father in everything, the thing that makes his son struggles.
5 September 1992, New Jersey, USA
22 July 1957, Burbank, California, USA
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29 October 1962, Denver, Colorado, USA
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4 September 1968, Uganda
2 December 1993, La Mesa, California, USA
30 April 1994
25 September 1994, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
20 February 1967, New York City, New York, USA
13 June 1964, Jamestown, New York, USA
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30 July 1982, Santa Monica, California, USA
12 October 1992, Union, Kentucky, USA
December 07, 2007
If this footy film was in a league it would be languishing at the bottom of the Vauxhall Conference.
September 26, 2005
This isn't the worst setup for a kiddie comedy, but it proves that Ferrell alone can't carry a film.
May 13, 2005
As lazy, bloated and TV-screen- friendly as shameless promos come.
September 26, 2006
The picture is a little about soccer, a little about parenting, and a lot about laughing. Mike Ditka shows up and delivers a kick-butt performance.
April 29, 2009
Is this all there is to Ferrell's career? Mediocre comedies, and wasted talent?
August 16, 2007
Will Ferrell has become the most unlikely embodiment of wholesome family fun since Fred MacMurray gave up film noir for My Three Sons.
May 21, 2005
... barely watchable.
August 07, 2008
Director Jesse Dylan, desperate to avoid yawns, flails madly with staging, editing, slow motion -- any trick he can think of, whether it fits or works or not.
February 01, 2006
Mostly useless
May 13, 2005
Ferrell is one of the film's few bright lights. It's a shame to hide that subversive beacon under a bushel of dully inspirational sports movie cliches.
September 25, 2006
Kicking & Screaming succeeds because it understands its target audience, refraining from playing it too cute or crude. Though predictable, it's well executed.
May 19, 2005
A zero, but the title describes how the audience is likely to react, perfectly.
