School for Scoundrels (2006 film)

School for Scoundrels is a 2006 American featurecomedy film, starring Billy Bob Thornton and Jon Heder, and directed by Todd Phillips. The film is based on the 1960 British film of the same name. The film was released on September 29, 2006.

Roger Jon Heder is a downtrodden meter reader, subject to ridicule from coworkers and regular denizens, who dreams of dating the foreign graduate student who lives in his building, Amanda Jacinda Barrett. To overcome his lack of selfesteem, he signs up for a course taught by Dr. P Billy Bob Thornton where Roger and his classmates are constantly bullied by Dr. P and his assistant Lesher Michael Clarke Duncan, who likes to use outrageous and unethical methods on them, including humiliation. Some tasks they are required to do are quite cruel and primitive like the task to start a conflict or even a fight with somebody they meet just to prove they are fearless. However, nobody intends to quit the course because Dr. P says he wont give a refund of 5,000 to anyone who quits or disobeys the orders given to them. The classmates even warn Roger that Dr. P will destroy him if his progress is too fast, just like he has done to one of his former students.While participating, Roger begins to develop a sense of personal pride and finally asks Amanda for a date where he uses tricks he learned during the course. Wanting to prove that hes still got his edge, Dr. P starts competing with Roger for Amanda. He approaches her with a false story that he is a successful and childloving surgeon whose wife has died, and Amanda, who is a voluntary caretaker for animals, is immediately attracted and starts dating him. When Roger begins to see whats happening, he decides to take action to get Amanda back, although his actions are futile. After a competitive tennis match in which Roger humiliates him, Dr. P enlists the talents of Rogers classmates to break into Amandas apartment and paint graffiti on the walls so he could frame Roger as a stalker. Roger uses his authority as a meter reader to impound Dr. Ps car, and in retaliation Dr. P gets Roger fired from his job. ........

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