Without a Paddle (2004)

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Studio: Paramount Pictures
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: Aug 20, 2004
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When childhood buddies Dan, a successful but neurotic doctor; Jerry, a business high-flier on the edge of burnout; and Tom,a Harley-riding wild child; reunite in Oregon at their friend Billy’s funeral, their reunion kicks off more than a little nostalgia. While reminiscing in their childhood tree house, the trio discovers that Billy had been pursuing their boyhood dreams of finding legendary bank robber DB Cooper’s $200,000 stash. Now with the map Billy left behind and a cereal box compass, Dan, Jerry and Tom decide to fulfill their friend’s dream and go on acanoe trip to find Cooper’s cash. But when they find themselves hassled by the sheriff at “the corner of Podunk andyou-got-a-purty-mouth,” treed by a huge brown bear who mistakes one of them for her cub, chased by vicious Rottweilers named Lynyrd and Skynyrd, hunted as prey by potfarmers whose crop they accidentally destroy, and battling terrifying rapids down a raging river in a canoe about to plummet over a waterfall, they begin to wonder which oftheir ideas was worse--searching in the wilderness for Cooper’s cash, or believing it ever existed in the first place.
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Dr Dan Mott
Jerry Conlaine
Tom Marshall
Elwood
Del Knox
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Young Jerry
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An occasionally very funny movie that tries way too hard to teach life lessons to its three white-bread heroes.

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Nice guy Jerry (Matthew Lillard), is the same numbingly trite character we've seen in hundreds of other movies. He faces 30 with uncertainty. He doesn't know if he should propose to his beautiful girlfriend Denise (Bonnie Somerville). He just can't commit, darn it! Oh, life is so confusing! Meeting up with his best buds Tom ''the rebel'' (Dax Shepard) and Dan ''the runt''… Continued