Without A Paddle
Adventure, Comedy
Paramount Pictures  (2004) 98 mins PG-13

5.7 (13,442 votes)
Three friends, Tom, Jerry and Dan (Dax Shepard, Matthew Lillard, and Seth Green) have planned since they were children to seek a fortune lost by a famed hijacker, DB Cooper. They had gotten the idea from their childhood friend Billy who has since died. They set out on a canoing trip with a map that points out where the fortune should be located. As they head down the river, they encounter a bear, two armed drug dealers that had a marijuana crop that they stumble upon, and two bizarre rain forest girls. The bear and drug dealers proceed to hunt them down for the rest of the movie in a thrilling yet hysterical chase....

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Cast and Crew
Matthew Price  ......  Young Tom
Andrew Hampton  ......  Young Jerry
Jarred Rumbold  ......  Young Dan
Carl Snell  ......  Young Billy
Antony Starr  ......  Billy Newwood (as Anthony Starr)
Dax Shepard  ......  Tom Marshall
Director  .....  Steven Brill
Producer  .....  Donald De Line; Richard Vane
Writer  .....  Mitch Rouse; Fred Wolf; Harris Goldberg
Cinematography  .....  Jonathan Brown
Musician  .....  Christophe Beck
Notes
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When Dan's receptionist enters the room to tell him that he has a phone call from Jerry, the film is reversed. You can tell this because of her name tag and because the phone he picks up in the next shot is the same one that appears next the her on the wall. (more)

Trivia:
Dax Shepard, Seth Green, and Matthew Lillard all did a majority of their own stunts. (more)

Filming Locations:
Huka Falls, Taupo, Waikato, New Zealand (more)

Quotes:
Dan Mott: This is exactly what you hear about when people go into the deep woods in the middle of the summertime! Aside from getting all sorts of diseases and things, they just wind up being the victims of some kind of unexpected man-rape! (more)