Adam Sandlers Happy Madison Productions--in cahoots with director
Dennis Dugan (HAPPY GILMORE), stars Rob Schneider (DEUCE BIGELOW:
MALE GIGOLO), Jon Heder (NAPOLEON DYNAMITE), and David Spade (TOMMY
BOY)--seeks to level the eternal struggle between jocks and nerds
in the raucous comedy THE BENCHWARMERS.
Schneider plays Gus, a landscaper, who, along with his newspaper
deliveryman pal Clarke (Heder), comes upon a hapless group of kids
being picked on by a bully baseball squad on the sandlot. When one
member of the squad delivers a non-culinary "beef stew" to one of
weaklings, the two adults intervene.
As he waxes nostalgic on the baseball diamond, Gus challenges the
tough Little Leaguers to a scrimmage, and Clarke and his other
uber-nerdy and decidedly nonathletic friend, video store clerk
Richie (Spade), are recruited--and the eponymous Benchwarmers are
formed. Soon, news of the three sissy men versus the nine
jocks-in-training spreads and comes to the attention of billionaire
geek, Mel (Jon Lovitz).
With Mels help, a state-wide tournament is created allowing any
youth baseball team the chance to knock off the Benchwarmers. As
the frenzy grows, all jocks and wimps, young and old, come out to
support their side with the final verdict in this never-ending war
for supremacy.
Release Date: 1 June 2006
Genre: Comedy
