Synopsis: Somebody’s Gonna Get Schooled!
Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) and Billy Bob Thornton (Bad Santa) face off in this “devilishly funny comedy” (Jeffrey Lyons, NBC’s Reel Talk) by writer/director Todd Phillips (Old School, Starsky & Hutch).
When unlucky loser Roger (Heder) takes a confidence-building class taught by an egomaniacal teacher (Thornton), the two are pitted in an outrageous battle to determine the ultimate guy’s guy. When the rivalry spirals uproariously out of control, no prank is too extreme, no insult is over the line, and nothing is off limits.
Featuring Michael Clarke Duncan, Sarah Silverman, David Cross, Jacinda Barrett and Ben Stiller, School For Scoundrels is “uncontrollably hilarious… Billy Bob Thornton and Jon Heder are at the top of their game” (Pete Hammond, Maxim).
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Not Masterpiece Theatre, but still a solid comedy that is outrageous yet still relatively credible almost until the end. Not Todd Phillip’s best work, but still a good time 
…now I’m really curious to see the British original: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054279/
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