Kicking & Screaming Page #3

Synopsis: Family man Phil Weston, a lifelong victim of his father's competitive nature, takes on the coaching duties of a kids' soccer team, and soon finds that he's also taking on his father's dysfunctional way of relating.
Director(s): Jesse Dylan
Production: Universal Pictures
  7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.6
Metacritic:
45
Rotten Tomatoes:
42%
PG
Year:
2005
95 min
$52,580,895
Website
1,241 Views


Okay?

Yes. Good.

Coach Benson will be good

for you. He knows his stuff.

I bet you this whole thing

is gonna turn out to be

a blessing in disguise.

Hey, the Tigers

may be in last place,

but those guys

look pretty good.

Dad, those

aren't the Tigers.

They're not even

wearing blue.

The Tigers are

over there.

I'm having a baby.

Oh, I'm having a baby.

No hitting the baby.

No, no, don't hit

my precious baby.

Oh, look, it's gonna come

out! It's gonna come out! Oh!

Cut it out!

Oh, it's gonna come out!

Oh.

Hi, excuse me. Uh,

Coach Benson around?

Yeah, you all know

Phil Weston?

Oh, yeah.

Hey, welcome to the team,

little fellow.

Why don't you go join

those other kids over there?

Yeah, go ahead.

There's a moving truck

in front of Benson's house.

Did you hear? The pressure

of coaching got to him.

He cracked.

How could he crack? We're

only one game into the season.

All right,

Tigers, it's game time.

Oh, but we're waiting

for our coach.

Well, then one of you

will have to coach.

Yeah, but I had talked to Coach

Benson, we're brand new...

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

All right.

Find yourself a coach,

or the Tigers forfeit.

Yes?

Where do I know you from?

I've been your neighbor

for seven years.

No, that ain't it.

No, that's definitely it.

I'll figure it out.

So, who's gonna coach?

We got Mark into soccer, 'cause

we wanted to take a break.

I didn't think I'd be

coaching the little bugger.

I just got laid off.

I'm looking for a job

so it's hard enough

to drag myself out of bed.

So, uh, we forfeit.

So, we're forfeiting?

No, no, no, no. Uh,

you know what,

I... I can coach.

Well, that's swell!

Great!

Just for one game.

Right. It's game time.

Get your team on the field.

Who are we playing?

How about

you use your eyes?

Oh, great.

All right, guys. Everybody

up. Let's go, come on.

Let's go, come on. Lift them.

Lift them. Hey, hey, hey.

What are you doing here?

Where's Benson?

Oh, Benson's a no-show.

I'm gonna coach the Tigers today.

Ooh. You sure

you wanna do that?

How you doing, Buck?

Players take the field.

Good luck, Buck.

Yeah. All right.

Yeah, good luck.

Yeah, you too.

May the best man win?

Oh, he will.

Yeah.

J.T., let's go. Hey,

let's go, everybody. Hey, hey!

Okay. Let's go, guys.

Okay, Tigers, uh, why don't

we have starters take the field?

We don't have starters,

we never got that far.

All right. Well, then, how

about, uh you, you, you?

Yes.

You.

Me?

No, not you.

You, Sam, you, you, you,

and you.

You guys, hit the field.

All right!

Go get them. Huh?

Go get them.

They're

gonna kill us, you know.

I'm sorry,

did you say something?

We're gonna get killed.

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