DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, commonly referred to as simply DodgeBall, is a 2004 American sports comedy film produced by 20th Century Fox and Red Hour Productions, written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber and starring Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller. The film focuses on a rivalry between the owners of Average Joe's, a small gym, and Globo-Gym, a competing big-budget gym located across the street. Peter LaFleur (Vaughn), the owner of the smaller gym, has defaulted on his mortgage and enters a dodgeball tournament in an attempt to earn the money necessary to prevent his gym from being purchased by Globo-Gym. Globo-Gym enters a team in the tournament in an effort to ensure that Average Joe's gym fails.
DodgeBall received generally good reviews, with a 70% aggregate rating on Rotten Tomatoes.^[1] The film was a commercial success, grossing over $30 million in its first week and eventually grossed more than $114 million domestically.

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Directed by	Rawson Marshall Thurber
Produced by	Ben Stiller Stuart Cornfeld
Written by	Rawson Marshall Thurber
Starring	Vince Vaughn Ben Stiller Christine Taylor Rip Torn
Music by	Theodore Shapiro
Cinematography	Jerzy Zielinski
Editing by	Allan E. Baumgarten Peter Teschner
Studio	Red Hour Films
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	June 18, 2004
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$20 million
Box office	$167,722,310