Funnyman Will Ferrell shoots and scores in "Kicking & Screaming," an immensely likable, funny comedy that finds a novel approach to that familiar combo of kids and sports. Arriving just ahead of ...

Ferrell is good at playing lovable and crazy, and he gets to play both in Kicking & Screaming—think Steve Martin’s humorous parental tone (Parenthood, Cheaper by the Dozen) evolving into Jim ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Kicking and Screaming is about boys and their balls. In brief, the plot has Robert Duvall as Buck, a wily old alpha male who gets ...

Will Farrell is back to his regular antics in the cute, humorous Kicking & Screaming when a youth soccer league’s top and bottom teams go head-to-head. Farrell plays Phil Weston, whose dad, Buck ...

We all know someone who has a bullying father, one of those dads who never lets his son win at arm wrestling or tetherball and who, later in life, competes with his kid at career success. Robert Du… ...

Rarely do sports comedies seem as choppy and scattered as “Kicking & Screaming,” a collection of skits, running gags and first-draft ideas that’s attempting to pass itself off as a fully ...

Kicking & Screaming. by Paul Myers on May 19th, 2005 at 10:00 AM. Starring Will Ferrell, ... (played by Robert Duvall), sporting-goods retailer and beloved kids' soccer coach Buck Weston.

The father in "Santini," played by Robert Duvall, shows up in "Kicking and Screaming" as a grandfather, Buck, the pompous owner of a sporting-goods chain in Chicago.