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When underappreciated video specialist Joe Scheffer is brutally humiliated by office bully Mark McKinney in front of his daughter, Joe begins a quest for personal redemption. He proceeds by enduring a personal makeover and takes martial arts lessons from a B-action star. As news spreads of his rematch with Mark, Joe suddenly finds himself the center of attention, ascending the corporate ladder and growing in popularity.
Theatrical
Dec 21, 2001
DVD / Blu-ray
Aug 20, 2002
Box Office
$24.5M
Budget
$38.0M
Return
0.6x
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Writer
Producers
Music
Studio
Atchity Entertainment International (AEI), Regency Enterprises, Fox 2000 Pictures, Epsilon Motion Pictures, Kopelson Entertainment
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Cast
Full credits →T
Tim Allen
Joe Scheffer
J
Julie Bowen
Meg Harper
K
Kelly Lynch
Callie Scheffer
G
Greg Germann
Jeremy
H
Hayden Panettiere
Natalie Scheffer
P
Patrick Warburton
Mark McKinney
J
Jim Belushi
Chuck Scarett
K
Ken Marino
Rick Raglow
W
Wolfgang Bodison
Cade Raymond
C
Cristi Conaway
Abby Manheim
R
Robert Joy
Pat Chilcutt
T
Tina Lifford
Cassandra Taylor
J
James Cada
Exec. Bill
J
John Riedlinger
In Crowd Guy #1
B
Bill McCallum
In Crowd Guy #2
E
Emil Herrera
Singing Exec.
M
Michael Haley
Bartender
P
Peter Syvertsen
Squash Executive #1
C
Claudia Wilkens
Deidre
R
Ross Turner
Basketball Boy
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Knockout fun for the whole family!
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Standing Up to the Wrong Person
Taglines
someone just picked on the wrong nobody.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
