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Wild Hogs
Restless and ready for an adventure, four suburban bikers leave the safety of their subdivision and head out on the open road. But complications ensue when they cross paths with an intimidating band of New Mexico bikers known as the Del Fuegos.
2007 · Directed by Walt Becker · 100 min · Action · Adventure · Comedy · Screenplay in the scene database · 9 frames
Tagline
A lot can happen on the road to nowhere.
Plot
Woody Stevens, Doug Madsen, Bobby Davis, and Dudley Frank are disillusioned middle-aged everymen in a Cincinnati suburb. Woody is a wealthy lawyer married to a supermodel; Doug is a dentist with trouble bonding with his son Billy; Bobby is a henpecked plumber disrespected by his wife Karen and two daughters Haley & Claire; and Dudley is a socially awkward, single computer programmer. They escape their routine lives on weekends by riding in their motorcycle club, the Wild Hogs.
Woody's wife is divorcing him and rendering him bankrupt, so he convinces the other three to take a road trip to California. After several encounters on the trip they run into a roadhouse bar where they encounter the Del Fuegos, an outlaw biker gang headed by Jack Blade. Feeling disrespected by the Wild Hogs, Jack steals Dudley's bike, so he has to travel in a sidecar.
Woody suggests they return to the bar to get Dudley's bike back but no one joins him. He secretly retrieves the bike and cuts the fuel lines of the gang's bikes, falsely telling the others he threatened a lawsuit. The Del Fuegos attempt to pursue the Wild Hogs to no avail. Jack's dropped cigarette ignites the leaking fuel and burns the bar down.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Brad Copeland
- Cinematography: Robbie Greenberg
- Edited by: Stuart H. Pappé, Christopher Greenbury
- Music: Teddy Castellucci
- Production design: Michael Corenblith
- Produced by: Michael Tollin, Brian Robbins, Todd Lieberman
Cast
- Tim Allen as Doug Madsen
- John Travolta as Woody Stevens
- Martin Lawrence as Bobby Davis
- William H. Macy as Dudley Frank
- Ray Liotta as Jack
- Kevin Durand as Red
- M.C. Gainey as Murdock
- Marisa Tomei as Maggie
- Jill Hennessy as Kelly Madsen
- Tichina Arnold as Karen Davis
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Touchstone Pictures, Wild Hogs Productions
- Budget: $60,000,000
- Box office: $253,625,427
- Themes: small town, midlife crisis, road trip, slapstick comedy, politically incorrect, motorcycle, motorcycle gang, lgbt, road movie, awkwardness
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