Mr. Woodcock is a 2007 comedy film directed by Craig Gillespie, and starring Seann William Scott, Billy Bob Thornton, Susan Sarandon, Amy Poehler, and Ethan Suplee. John Farley (Seann William Scott) is a successful self-help author, but when he returns home to visit his mother, Beverly (Susan Sarandon), he finds out that she is engaged to his old gym teacher, Mr. Woodcock. Back in elementary school, Woodcock would humilate Farley, and made fun of his weight- even making him do pull ups in only his underwear. Still traumatized, Farley sets out to make sure his mother doesn\\\'t marry his old teacher, and even goes to great lengths in order for that to happen.