Role Models

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Role Models

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Released Nov 7, 2008

1h 39m

Comedy

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After salesmen Danny (Paul Rudd) and Wheeler (Seann William Scott) trash a company truck, the court gives them a choice: jail time or community service in a mentoring program. Thinking to take the easy way out, the two overgrown adolescents find themselves paired with a teenager (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), who is experiencing the pangs of first love, and a foul-mouthed fifth-grader (Bobb'e J. Thompson), who needs an attitude adjustment.

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Critics Consensus

Role Models is a frequently crude, always funny comedy with the cast providing solid work throughout.

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Tom Charity

CNN.com

Rudd and Scott aren't stretching any new muscles, but Rudd's glum disaffection and Scott's bozo bonhomie do gel with a satisfying stickiness. They handle the gaping innuendo with such delicacy we know that they know they're better than this.

Jul 6, 2010

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Laremy Legel

Film.com

Role Models could have been another formulaic comedy, fresh off the assembly line. Instead, the work of Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott here is worthy of praise and one of the funnier films this year.

Rated: B+

Jul 6, 2010

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Jordan Hoffman

UGO

Role Models is a film for the nerds, by the nerds. Lucky for Role Models, the rest of our culture is catching up and are invited along as well.

Rated: A-

Aug 13, 2009

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Saying Role Models has heart would be accurate, though I’m recommending this title based on the film’s ever-constant stream of laughs

Rated: 3/4

Aug 30, 2023

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

Just when a heartrending moment draws the audience in, a jolting blast of vulgarity induces inescapable laughter.

Rated: 7/10

Nov 28, 2020

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

A 10-year-old who has no problem dropping the F-bomb? Parents are likely to cringe and/or think they accidentally walked into a Billy Bob Thornton movie.

Rated: 3.0/4.0

Sep 21, 2020

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Ed R

Definitely worth a comedic watch!

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

09/10/25

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Mike V

They're about to get more than they plea-bargained for. Role Models is a 2008 American comedy film directed by David Wain 🍿 Awesome! 😀 I’d totally recommend it 👍🏼👍🏼 One of my favourite movies of the year ⭐️ S Two salesmen trash a company truck on an energy drink-fueled bender. Upon their arrest, the court gives them a choice: do hard time or spend 150 service hours with a mentorship program. After one day with the kids, however, jail doesn't look half bad.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

08/30/25

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Meri S.

DNF. Looks like a movie that’s not my thing.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

08/28/25

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Carlos M

Muy buena pelicula juntar a estos dos protagonistas me recuerda mucho a american pie sinceramente esta pelicula pense que era infantil pero no asi que ya lo saben

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

08/20/25

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Daniel N

Brilliant movie. Classic Paul Rudd and Sean William Scott. Great fun and easy to watch. A worthy addition to the DVD collection

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/17/25

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Joseph S

Every character in this film is simply the same bland repeated gag for about an hour. The finale is the only form of twist on the status quo and was able to get one or two decent laughs. Would this form of comedy pass to the standards of a 2008 audience? Possibly. But this movie does not stand the test of time when you know what the joke is gonna be before the scene even starts just because of the characters present.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

07/25/25

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Synopsis

After salesmen Danny (Paul Rudd) and Wheeler (Seann William Scott) trash a company truck, the court gives them a choice: jail time or community service in a mentoring program. Thinking to take the easy way out, the two overgrown adolescents find themselves paired with a teenager (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), who is experiencing the pangs of first love, and a foul-mouthed fifth-grader (Bobb'e J. Thompson), who needs an attitude adjustment.

Director: David Wain
Producer: Mary Parent, Scott Stuber, Luke Greenfield
Screenwriter: David Wain, Paul Rudd, Ken Marino, Timothy Dowling, William Blake Herron
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: WideAwake, New Regency Productions, Universal Pictures, Relativity Media, Stuber-Parent, Internationale Filmproduktion Stella-del-Süd
Rating: R (Nudity|Crude and Sexual Content|Strong Language)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 7, 2008, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 22, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $67.3M
Runtime: 1h 39m

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