Kicking & Screaming is a 2005 comedy film, directed by Jesse Dylan starring Will Ferrell. It focuses on the exploits of a boys soccer team and their new coach.
Phil Weston (Ferrell), is an average person who has had to endure his father Buck Weston's (played by Robert Duvall) over-competitiveness throughout his childhood, an upbringing which has left permanent mental scars. Now middle-aged, married, with a young son named Sam, Phil runs a small v...
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Kicking & Screaming is a 2005 comedy film, directed by Jesse Dylan starring Will Ferrell. It focuses on the exploits of a boys soccer team and their new coach.
Phil Weston (Ferrell), is an average person who has had to endure his father Buck Weston's (played by Robert Duvall) over-competitiveness throughout his childhood, an upbringing which has left permanent mental scars. Now middle-aged, married, with a young son named Sam, Phil runs a small vitamin store, whilst 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 the squad, but to his dad's annoyance his grandfather keeps him as a benchwarmer rather than playing him, 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...
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