Wild Hogs (2007)
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Four middle-aged men escape their mundane lives by embarking on a motorcycle road trip to California.
The story
Woody Stevens, Doug Madsen, Bobby Davis, and Dudley Frank are disillusioned middle-aged everymen living in a Cincinnati suburb. They escape their routine lives on weekends by riding in their motorcycle club, the Wild Hogs. When Woody's wife begins a divorce that leaves him bankrupt, he convinces the other three to take a road trip to California. However, their journey is interrupted when they encounter the Del Fuegos, an outlaw biker gang. After a confrontation leads to the theft of Dudley's bike, the group must navigate various obstacles and encounters while attempting to reach their destination.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Woody Stevens, Doug Madsen, Bobby Davis, and Dudley Frank are middle-aged men in a Cincinnati suburb who escape their routine lives by riding in their motorcycle club, the Wild Hogs. Facing bankruptcy and divorce, Woody convinces the others to ride to California. During the trip, they encounter the Del Fuegos, an outlaw biker gang led by Jack Blade. After Jack steals Dudley's bike, Woody secretly retrieves it and sabotages the Del Fuegos' bikes, causing their bar to burn down. The Wild Hogs run out of gas and end up in Madrid, New Mexico, where they are mistaken for the Del Fuegos and Dudley falls in love with the diner owner, Maggie. The Del Fuegos eventually track them down, and Jack threatens to wreck the town unless the Wild Hogs pay for their bar. Woody confesses his secrets, and the Wild Hogs are forced to fight the gang. They are eventually saved when Jack's father, Damien Blade, arrives and reveals the bar was an insurance scam. The Wild Hogs eventually reach Southern California, where everyone except Dudley crashes into a surfboard. In the credits, it is revealed the Wild Hogs called Extreme Makeover: Home Edition to give the Del Fuegos a new bar.
- First release year
- 2007
- Runtime (minutes)
- 100
- Production countries
- United States
- Original languages
- English
- Directors
- Walt Becker
- Writers
- Brad Copeland · writer
- Cast and characters
- Tim Allen; John Travolta; Martin Lawrence; William H. Macy; Marisa Tomei; Jill Hennessy; Ray Liotta
- Genres
- adventure; comedy; buddy comedy; road movie
- Themes
- Midlife crisis; Friendship; Road trip
- Tone and mood
- Comedy; Slapstick
- Premise and plot tags
- Road Trip; Biker; Comedy
- Reception
- The film received negative reviews but was a box office success, grossing over $253 million against a $60 million budget. It received a 14% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 27 on Metacritic.
- Reported review scores
- Rotten Tomatoes · score: 4.00/10 · scale: 10 · review count: 145; Metacritic · score: 27 · scale: 100 · review count: 29
- Awards and nominations
- People's Choice Award · Favorite Movie Comedy · Nominated
- Production trivia
- It was the last Touchstone Pictures film to be distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution.; The motorcycles used in the film were provided by Harley-Davidson.; The film was shot in New Mexico, with the opening scenes in Cincinnati filmed in and around Albuquerque.
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