PARAMOUNT PICTURES Presents
An Apatow/Roth/Arnold Production
Drillbit Taylor (2008)
DIRECTOR: Steven Brill
WRITERS: Kristofor Brown & Seth Rogen; based upon a story by Edmond Dantes and Kristofor Brown & Seth Rogen
PRODUCERS: Judd Apatow, Susan Arnold, Donna Arkoff Roth
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Fred Murphy, ASC (D.o.P.)
EDITOR: Thomas J. Nordberg
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Jackson DeGovia
COSTUME DESIGNER: Karen Patch
COMPOSER: Christophe Beck

Starring: Owen Wilson, Leslie Mann, David Dorfman, Danny McBride, Josh Peck, and Alex Frost

Opening date:  Friday, March 21, 2008
Running time:  102 minutes
Rating:  MPAA – PG-13 for crude sexual references throughout, strong bullying, language, drug references, and partial nudity

Drillbit Taylor is a new comedy about three young outcasts confronting their high school misfortunes with the help of a down-and-out soldier of fortune.

Chubby Ryan (Troy Gentile), freakishly skinny Wade (Nate Hartley), and shrimpy tagalong Emmit (David Dorfman) attend their first day at high school, and they’re pumped… until they meet up with Filkins (Alex Frost), school bully and the senior class’ psycho-in-residence who comes off like a little Hannibal Lecter.  Before they become completely engulfed in Filkins’ reign of terror, they seek out some protection by placing an ad in Solider of Fortune magazine.

Their best response – and the cheapest – comes from Drillbit Taylor (Owen Wilson), a down-on-his luck soldier of fortune who lives a homeless – he likes to say “home-free” – existence on the beach.  He enrolls them in some physical and mental training, a cockamamie boot camp that does teach the boys some skills.  But when Drillbit proves to be no match for Filkins, Ryan, Wade, and Emmit have to teach their savior how to be a real savior.

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