Role Models (2008)
Role Models was the link movie connecting How to Train Your Dragon and Spider-Man 3.
Linked through Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Elizabeth Banks.
Both Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Elizabeth Banks appeared in Role Models.
About Role Models
"They're about to get more than they plea-bargained for."
Two salesmen trash a company truck on an energy drink-fueled bender. Upon their arrest, the court gives them a choice: do hard time or spend 150 service hours with a mentorship program. After one day with the kids, however, jail doesn't look half bad.
Directed by David Wain
Written by Paul Rudd, David Wain, Ken Marino, Timothy Dowling, William Blake Herron
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Role Models was nominated for a Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Comedy; IGN awarded it "Best Comedy Film of 2008" and Eye Weekly selected it as one of the best films of 2008.
Soundtrack
Score by Craig Wedren
A running-song gag, "Love Take Me Down (to the Streets)", was written to imitate Wings by Charles Gansa (the film's composer) and A. D. Miles (who plays Martin); it was performed by Paul McCartney soundalike Joey Curatolo and credited on the soundtrack as "Not Wings."
Movie trivia
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The film was originally announced in December 2006 as Big Brothers with Luke Greenfield set to direct and Timothy Dowling writing; a January 22, 2007 draft instead credited Moses Port and David Guarascio, omitting Dowling.
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Paul Rudd was commissioned to write a new draft while David Wain signed on to direct; the project briefly carried the title Little Big Men before Universal released it as Role Models.
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Role Models premiered at the Austin Film Festival on October 19, 2008, was pre-screened at the University of Maryland's Hoff Theater on October 30, and opened theatrically in the U.S. on November 7, 2008.
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A running gag centers on the song 'Love Take Me Down (to the Streets)', presented as a Wings hit but listed on the soundtrack and in the credits as performed by 'Not Wings' and credited in the film to Charles Gansa and A. D. Miles.
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The LAIRE climax features Danny and Augie forming a new country called 'Kiss-My-Anthia', arriving in Kiss costumes and a Kiss-themed Minotaur truck to turn the game and advance Augie's place in the group.
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Role Models received generally positive reviews, was a box-office success and opened at number two at the box office behind Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.
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