| | | Life's a Game. Learn How to Play.
Features: Widescreen
Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) and Billy Bob Thornton (Bad Santa) face off in this "devilishly funny comedy" (Jeffrey Lyons, NBC's Reel Talk) by writer/director Todd Phillips (Old School, Starsky & Hutch).When unlucky loser Roger (Heder) takes a confidence-building class taught by an egomaniacal teacher (Thornton), the two are pitted in an outrageous battle to determine the ultimate guy's guy. When the rivalry spirals uproariously out of control, no prank is too extreme, no insult is over the line, and nothing is off limits. Featuring Michael Clarke Duncan, Sarah Silverman, David Cross, Jacinda Barrett and Ben Stiller, School for Scoundrels is "uncontrollably hilarious...Billy Bob Thornton and Jon Heder are at the top of their game" (Pete Hammond, Maxim).
"As usual, Thornton remains fully committed to the performance." Keith Phipps, The Onion A.V. Club
"You'll enjoy yourself." M.E. Russell, Portland Oregonian
"Uproarious and unexpectedly biting." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Editor's Note
IN THEATERS SEPTEMBER 29, 2006 Jon Heder (NAPOLEON DYNAMITE) plays a shy young man who enrolls in a course on how to succeed with women. Unfortunately, his sleazy teacher (Billy Bob Thornton) has designs on the woman of the hero's dreams.
| Features | Alternate Ending | | Audio: English, French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Dubbed: French | | Feature Audio Commentary With Writer/Director Todd Philips & Writer Scot Armstrong | | Featurette: The Making-Of You Didn't See On TV | | Gag Reel | | Interactive Menus | | Original Theatrical Trailer | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: Spanish | | This Is An HD-DVD Made For HD-DVD Format Players Which Produce Higher Quality Picture & Sound |
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Release Information
| | Studio: GENIUS PRODUCTS, INC |
| Release Date: 4/15/2008 |
| Running Time: 107 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2006 | | Catalog ID: 79717 | | UPC: 00796019797177 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.35:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Movieline's Hollywood Life
"Jon Heder gives an enormously winning performance as the geeky, self-effacing parking meter man who gains confidence under the tutelage of the conniving Billy Bob Thornton." 09/01/2006 p.101Rolling Stone
3 stars out of 4 -- "Thornton is fiendishly funny, lacing his charm with a cruelty that spares no one....Thornton and Heder keep you howling." 10/05/2006 p.78 Sight and Sound
"Jon Heder is oddly sweet both as the put-upon Roger and the more dashing later version....There is effective comic creation here..." 03/01/2007 p.74 Ultimate DVD
3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he cast winningly handle those two humour essentials -- love and violence." 08/01/2007 p.124 Reel.com 8 of 10
"Jon Heder is no longer sporting frizzy hair and moon boots and breathing through his mouth; he's Roger, the shy meter maid (man?) in Todd Phillips' wickedly funny School for Scoundrels. And if anything, he's an even bigger nerd than Napoleon Dynamite. At least Napoleon has an over-abundance of self-confidence...As long as the movie stays focused on the competition between Roger and Dr. P, it is hilarious. Less a fight between stags, this is the dust-up that ensues when a bunny rabbit throws down against the wolf that wants to devour him and takes advantage of the resulting surprise. Elmer Fudd could have explained it to Dr. P: You have to watch out for those wascally wabbits, especially after you've made them hopping mad." - Pam Grady
The Village Voice 8 of 10
"The latest from Old School director Todd Phillips updates the 1960 original (which was based on Stephen Potter's series of how-to-get-ahead novels) about a man of little confidence who enrolls in a class he believes will teach him self- reliance; it's Bad Santa meets Napoleon Dynamite, quite literally...Thornton, who found his nasty niche in Bad Santa only to seem terribly lost in Bad News Bears, doesn't repeat himself here. Dr. P is a classy, cool brand of vile - the demented drill sergeant in a designer suit. And Heder, cast in the role of the invisible man, is fine too. The movie wouldn't work without someone as nondescript as Heder, because you can buy him as a do-nothing, go-nowhere man; he's perfectly, wonderfully forgettable, appropriate for a movie like this." - Robert Wilonsky
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