Balls of Fury
Balls of Fury is a 2007 American sports comedy film directed by Robert Ben Garant, who also wrote the screenplay with Thomas Lennon, who also co-starred and produced with Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber and Jonathan Glickman. The film stars Dan Fogler in his first lead role, with a supporting cast of George Lopez, Christopher Walken, Maggie Q, Terry Crews, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, James Hong and Jason Scott Lee. It was released in the United States on August 29, 2007, to generally negative reviews.
Plot
Eleven-year-old Randy Daytona becomes anxious when he learns that his father Peter has bet on his performance in the 1988 Summer Olympics table tennis tournament finals. During his semi-final game against Karl Wolfschtagg of the German Democratic Republic, Daytona has an accident and suffers an injury. Unable to continue, he loses the match. Loan sharks, in the employ of criminal mastermind Feng, murder his father, and Daytona leaves competitive ping-pong.
Cast
- Aisha Tyler
- Anthony Shell
- Brett DelBuono
- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
- Cathy Shim
- Christopher Walken
- Dan Fogler
- David Koechner
- David Proval
- Diedrich Bader
- George Lopez
- Irina Voronina
- James Hong
- Jason Scott Lee
- Jenny Robertson
- Jim Lampley
- Jim Rash
- Kerri Kenney
- Kiralee M. Hayashi
- Maggie Q
- Marisa Tayui
- Masi Oka
- Patton Oswalt
- Robert Patrick
- Steve Little
- Terry Crews
- Thomas Lennon
- Toby Huss
- Tracy Dali
More details
| author | Ben Garant Thomas Lennon |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Los Angeles |
| director | Ben Garant |
| editor | John Refoua |
| events | table tennis |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | 1988 summer olympics attempt to escape blind man build criminal mastermind criminal mastermind feng east germany elevator shaft fall fbi fbi agent force game german democratic republic kill learn loan shark loan sharks lose poison river sudden death teach train triad young girl |
| musicBy | Randy Edelman |
| producer | Gary Barber Jonathan Glickman Roger Birnbaum Thomas Lennon |
| productionCompany | Intrepid Pictures Spyglass Entertainment |
| publisher | Rogue Pictures |
| recordedAt | Long Beach |
| theme | sports comedy |