Drillbit Taylor
Comedy
Paramount Pictures  (7/15/2008) 109 mins PG-13

6.0 (12,986 votes)
Budget Bodyguard

"Owen Wilson is hilarious" in this laugh-out-loud comedy as Drillbit Taylor, a down-on-his-luck soldier of fortune and self-professed martial arts expert. Three nerdy high school kids, desperate for a way to exact revenge on their nemeses - two school bullies - end up hiring Drillbit's budget bodyguard services and they get what they pay for.

Drillbit takes this bumbling band of misfits under his wing and, with his zany and oddball training methods, leads them as they turn the tables of their attackers and take back their school!...

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Cast and Crew
Nate Hartley  ......  Wade
Troy Gentile  ......  Ryan
Ian Roberts  ......  Jim
Owen Wilson  ......  Drillbit Taylor
Casey Boersma  ......  Chuck
Dylan Boersma  ......  Nick
Director  .....  Steven Brill
Producer  .....  Judd Apatow; Susan Arnold; Donna Arkoff Roth
Writer  .....  Kristofor Brown; Seth Rogen
Notes
Goofs:
Continuity: When Wade approaches Brooke during lunch there is a girl in a pink top sitting next to Brooke. In the next cut the girl in pink is no longer sitting there. There are two other girls sitting on the opposite side of the table as Brooke so that Wade can sit down. (more)

Trivia:
Adam Baldwin has a cameo as a bodyguard being interviewed. During the interview, he comments on how stupid it is for a bodyguard to protect kids from bullies, while wearing an identical costume to the one he wore in the movie My Bodyguard (1980) (where he played a bodyguard to protect a fellow student from a bully). (more)

Filming Locations:
3rd Street Promenade, Santa Monica, California, USA (more)

Quotes:
Guy buying stolen stuff: I tell you what, I'll give you 1,500 for everything.
Don: 1,500? Come on, man. This stuff holds a lot of sentimental value.
Guy buying stolen stuff: To who?
Don: To the poeple I stole it from.
Guy buying stolen stuff: I don't care about them. 1,500.
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Awards:
1 nomination (more)