Two dimwit sewage workers watch their hero, WCW wrestler Jimmy King, get screwed out of the World title by wrestler Diamond Dallas Page and evil WCW owner Titus Sinclair. They embark on a quest to help their hero win his title - and honor - back. Features cameos by lots of WCW wrestlers.
Written by
Greg Popil
Plot Synopsis:
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Sewage workers Gordie Boggs (David Arquette) and Sean Dawkins (Scott Caan) are huge wrestling fans. They seem to know a lot about it except the biggest piece of it; wrestling is scripted. Their favorite wrestler is WCW World Heavyweight Champion Jimmy King (Oliver Platt) who personifies a modern king. Unbeknownst to them, King is actually a low life wrestler who burned out his fortune and didn't show a lot of respect for his boss, his family, or his co-workers.

WCW promoter Titus Sinclair (Joe Pantoliano), fed-up with King's attitude and antics, establish a plan to screw King out of his title and destroy him. To do so, he hires WCW wrestler Diamond Dallas Page (Himself) and his crew of wrestlers. He books a match between King and DDP and keeps everyone thinking that King is gonna win.

So Sean and Gordie go to the WCW monday nitro show as fans, believing they're about to witness another King victory. What ensues is their favorite wrestler getting beat up for real in the ring, loosing his championship belt and getting publicly fired from WCW for life. After the match, the two wrestling fans express their rage in their septic truck, resulting in a car crash.

After this event, Gordie believes that the car crash was fate and that they should make Jimmy King once again World Champion. Sean agrees to help Gordie, and the dimwitted duo go on a quest to put their King back on his throne. The next day, they meet Isaac (Chris Owen), a nerdy wrestling fan who's father seems to think everything Issac does is for pussies. They asks their new friend to use his internet knowledge to find out where the washed-up wrestler lives. Isaac succeeds to find King's address, and the boys go to an unexpected-looking neighborhood. They find King's estranged wife Eugenia (Caroline Rhea) and his uneducated son Frankie (Tait Smith) who both happens to be far from the queen and prince type. Eugenia reveals that King left them a while ago to run with another girl and never returned or sent anything for child support. They later meet his parents (Kathleen Freeman and Lewis Arquette), who reveals that their son borrowed their mobile home, and never returned it.

The duo finally find King, with the help of Isaac, hidding in a trailer park, drunk and dressed like a woman. After paying King 30$ for a 5 minutes encounter, they have a conversation in which King says that he gave up on wrestling. Gordie and Sean, with their stupidity, anger King to the point where he suddenly attacks the two boys. The boys encourage King to beat them up, convincing him that he can still fight and that he should fight DDP again. King accepts the offer and knocks out the boys with his finishing move to thank them. The two boys wake up the next day to find Jimmy King ready to take a shot at wrestling again.

While on a road trip to the WCW arena, Gordie sends letters to his angry father, an overzealous cop who wanted Gordie to follow in his footsteps to be a policeman and who hates wrestling because he deem it unmanly and fake. Gordie tells his father that he will not join him in a policeman test, making him frustrated to the point where he shoots the letter with his gun.

They arrive at the WCW arena where they hide King in a port-a-potty and meet one of the Nitro Girls, Sasha (Rose McGowan). When DDP mocks Jimmy King on camera, King comes out of the port-a-potty and beats him up. King ask for a rematch which Sinclair agrees with a few conditions. The match will be a triple cage match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship between DDP and King. If King wins, he not only regain his title but he also gets a million dollar cash prize. However, if King loses, he will never wrestle again in WCW or anywhere else. Gordie and Sean agrees with the terms, not listening to King's protest.

Later that night, during a party, Sasha flirts with Gordie, saying she was impressed with him, and invite him on a date at her appartment where she has sex with him.

Meanwhile, King, out of sheer panic, tries to run away but falls into a sewer. The boys find him and convince him they found the perfect trainer for him. They find Sal Bandini (Martin Landau), an old school trainer who likes to train his students by beating them up and putting them through excruciating submission holds. Sal agrees to train King and therefore starts beating him up. The boys also think that King should have a partner to back him up. They turn to WCW wrestler Bill Goldberg (Himself) who used to be King's partner. Goldberg refuses to help King due to way King treated him in the past.

That night, Sal is assaulted and injured by WCW thugs Sid Vicious(Himself) and Perry Saturn (Himself). At he hospital, Gordie overhears Sasha on the phone with Sinclaire and realises Sasha was faking their relationship to spy on them, and breaks up with her.

Under Sal's advice to hide until the match, Gordie and Sean bring King to their hometown of Lusk, Wyoming. On the way, King goes to his wife to apologies and promises, after two kicks to the groin, to use the million dollar cash prize to make it up to her and their son.

Upon their arrival, Gordie's father comes along to pick up his son and convinces him that his dreams of wrestling are stupid. That night, Sean and King try to bust Gordie out of his room where he's been confined to study until the next police exam, but Gordie refuses, saying it's time he gets real with his life.

King and Sean holds an audition to find an entourage to help King during the match. Many candidates show up, but no one makes the cut and King realises he's gonna have to do it alone. As they are about to leave, Gordie comes to say goodbye and apologies to King for not going with them. King dismiss the apology because he understands and thanks Gordie for everything he's done for him.

Meanwhile, Sean meets up with Wendy (Melanie Deanne Moore) whom he first tought of as one of the guys but realised he has developped a soft spot for her while she was always infatuated with him. He gives her a New-York Hard Rock Cafe T-shirt and confess that he's been thinking about her. She thanks him by bringing him inside the RV and have sex with him before he leaves.

The night of the match, King is ready but very nervous. He's joined by Sean, dressed to impress as he's going to act as a manager to King. The match starts and turns rapidly to nightmare for King when it is revealed that DDP's goons were hiding under the ring and therefore, are inside the cage with him. One of the goons is a masked wrestler who turns out to be King's son Frankie who proceeds to beat up his dad. As King is getting beat up by the goons, out comes WCW wrestlers Goldberg, Booker T, Billy Kidman and Disco Inferno to help him.

Unfortunately, they can't get in the cage since de door is padlocked. Out comes another man on a motorcycle who uses the entrance ramp as a jump to crash through the cage door and take out some of the goons. That man is Gordie, dressed in a wrestling version of his father's uniform. His father sees his son on TV and starts cheering him on with is collegues. Gordie and the others deal with DDP's possee and defeat them while King and DDP climb the cage to get to the belt. Sasha tries to get back together with Gordie as the fans love him, but is knocked out by a ladder after not listening to Sean's warning.

Meanwhile, in the highest cage, DDP manages to throw King down to the lowest cage. As he attempts to reach for the belt, Page is knocked down to the lowest cage himself by WCW wrestler Sting who was threatened into helping DDP earlier by Sinclaire. The two climb back to the top again and fight it out until King manages to slam DDP all the way to mat, knocking him out in the process. King retrieves the belt and is once again champion.

After this, Sean and Gordie beat up Sinclaire before tossing him in the crowd where the fans beat him up some more. Goldberg asks King to re-team with him, but the new champ announces his new partner will be Gordie and their manager will be Sean. Gordie's father is cheering and accept his son's decison while Wendy is seen at work jumping and screaming her love for Sean.

Afterward, Sean is back in Lusk, at the convenient store where the story began, telling the story to some kids and saying "dreams can come true". Just as one of the kids ask Sean to prove that his story is real, the store clerk, known for being mean to kids, is projected throught the glass door by Goldberg, Gordie and King. All ends happily as the heroes ride off in a stretch Hummer (driven by Nitro Girl Chae), together with Sal, now fully recovered in a hot tub with beautiful women and ends it by saying "God bless America".

The end credits feature bloopers and a montage of kicks to the groin.

According to David Arquette in a 2007 WWE.com interview, WWE superstar Shane Helms served as his stunt double.
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Martin Landau's character is based upon legendary wrestling coach Stu Hart. Hart was almost elderly but still strong and more skilled than people a fraction his age, as Landau's character is.
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Around the time of this movie's release, David Arquette made a string of appearances on WCW television. In lieu of spending any of the money paid to him from WCW, David instead chose to give all of his WCW earnings to the family of deceased wrestler Brian Pillman.
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WWE Superstar John Cena can be seen background in the gym scene where Goldberg appears the first time.
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For promotional purposes, WCW head writer Vince Russo wrote for David Arquette to make many guest appearances and win the WCW World Title on an episode of WCW Thunder (1998). Most people called this the worst move in WCW's history and the final nail in its coffin, before going out of business in 2001. Arquette himself even admitted that it was not a good idea, only doing it because booker Vince Russo kept talking him into it.
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Martin Landau replaced Jack Palance as Sal Bandini.
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Oliver Platt accidentally struck Randy Savage in the face during the filming of a fantasy scene. The footage of the incident, which was shot over Savage's shoulder, can be seen in the blooper reel shown during the closing credits.
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There were plans to do a sequel which never materialized.
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Rose McGowen hated her time making this film.
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Scott Caan did all his own stunts for this movie.
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The scenario of Jimmy King getting screwed by Titus Sinclair was based on a real life issue between Eric Bischoff and Ric Flair. In April 1998, Flair was fired from WCW for allegedly no-showing the taping for the April 16th edition of WCW Thunder (1998). By the end of the year, Flair was back in WCW after filing a lawsuit against Bischoff.
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During filming of the tag-team match where he and Billy Kidman defeated Juventud Guerrera and Prince Iaukea, Rey Mysterio injured his knee.
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David Arquette was given the WCW World Heavyweight title two weeks after the release of the movie as a promotional stunt. He eventually lost the title in a cage match similar to the one at the end of the movie.
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The character of Titus Sinclair is based on WCW Vice-President Eric Bischoff, who was originally going to appear in this movie as a fictionalized version of himself, but was fired from WCW before filming began, thus the character of Sinclair was created as played by Joe Pantoliano.
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The character of Nitro Girl Sasha is based on Kimberly Page.
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Chris Kanyon served as Oliver Platt's stunt double
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Rey Mysterio appears in the opening match. This was around the time when he did not wear a mask as part of his character.
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The way Jimmy King lost the title, when he was supposed to have won, is a spoof of the infamous Montreal Screw Job back at the WWF Survivor Series (1997), in which Bret Hart was supposed to have retained the title from Shawn Michaels, but was heavily conspired against and lost in an unscripted manner.
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David Arquette lost his father Lewis Arquette less than a year after this movie's release. Lewis had his own connection to wrestling, as the voice of "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka in Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling (1985).
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Rose McGowan admitted she hated this movie and didn't want to be in it, eventually giving in after throwing the script in the trash three times.
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The purpose for this movie being made was to regain WCW's fan-base that it was losing.
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David Arquette was a longtime wrestling fan. After this film and after the cancellation of WCW, Arquette went on the make numerous guest appearances with WWE.
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In the movie, the boys' home state is Wyoming as well as Sasha saying that she grew up in Cody, Wyoming. Eric Bischoff, the Vice-President of World Championship Wrestling during the making of the movie owned a home and lived part time in Cody, Wyoming.
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While David Arquette and Rose McGowan were love interests in this film, they previously played siblings in the Scream (1996) franchise.
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This is WWE Superstar John Cena's first acting role.
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At one point of the film, when the cop is going off on his son about people that ended up as failures because they followed their dreams, he mentions Michael Bolton. This is most likely a reference to how Bolton was once a hard rocker, and "sold out" to doing adult contemporary music.
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The WCW World Heavyweight Title used in the movie is completely opposite to the actual title, color wise. The real belt was gold with silver inlays on a black leather strap; originally brown, but after years of use and being soaked, sweat turned it a darker color. The belt in the movie was mostly silver with some gold detailing. For example, the area that says "World Heavyweight Champion" has a gold backing with silver letters, where the original has gold letters and a silver background.
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The main wrestler in the film, Jimmy King, is based upon WCW's Ric Flair and WWF's Jerry "The King" Lawler.
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The Triple Cage match at the end of the film happened twice in real life. Once on a episode of Nitro and another as the new War Games structure in Slamboree 2000.
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Jimmy King, Titus Sinclair, and Sasha are the only WCW personalities made up for the film. Everyone else were actual WCW employees.
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According to an interview he did with YouShoot in 2013, Diamond Dallas Page said that he pitched an alternate ending for the film to Warner Bros. What would have happened was that after the triple cage match is over, and the end credits are just starting to roll, Jimmy King tells Gordie and Sean that he would see them at the bar, before heading back to his dressing room to get changed, only to see DDP waiting for him. Just as the two wrestlers look like they are going to fight again, they actually hug each other, with DDP forgiving King for throwing him through all three cages. Then, Sean and Gordie enter the dressing room and are shocked to discover that King and DDP are friends. DDP then walks up to the two and says "Boys, welcome to the business. Let's go have a drink!" which helps puts all their differences aside.
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The part where Jimmy King is betrayed by his own son Frankie is based on a similar story-line with Ric Flair and his oldest son David.
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Perry Saturn, one of the two men who attacked Sal Bandini (Martin Landau) had left WCW before this movie was out in theaters. He would go to the WWF/E by January 2000 and be part of the Radicalz. Then later he had a sidekick mop named Moppy.
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Sean says Jimmy King is the longest undefeated wrestler ever. Later, Sinclair mentions to King that he has been wrestling for fourteen years. King being undefeated for fourteen years is not the longest winning streak in pro-wrestling. Andre the Giant was undefeated for fifteen years. The Fabulous Moolah was undefeated for twenty-seven years.
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Isaac tells Gordie he's being too loud when he's playing with his toys. But when Sean is singing Britney Spears in a much louder tone, Isaac does nothing.
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During the first wrestling match between Diamond Dallas Page and Jimmy King, a table is seen set up outside of the ring with nothing on it. In the very next shot when Page tosses King out of the ring and through the table, magazines and other materials suddenly appear on the table.
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When Jimmy King pulls down the venetian blind slats in his mobile home, he's using his left and right hands in alternate shots.
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After the triple tier caged match, when the King is shown holding the title belt, his name already appears on the nameplate but Diamond Dallas Page was the champion going into the match. It should be noted, however, on the WCW product it was not unusual for the name plate not be changed for several weeks after a title change.
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After the boys are picked up in Wyoming by the traveling nuns, they are shown passing the same farm storage facility twice, during the day as well as during the night. They also pass the same farm storage facility on their way from Georgia to New York.
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During Gordy's daydream sequence, the mean clerk says the purple sugar slush is $1.26. When Gordy is snapped out of his daydreaming and goes to get a refill, the sign on the slush machine says the price is $1.25.
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The picture of Gordie and King doing commentary never happens.
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Jimmy King is unfairly exiled from WCW for life. Given his status as a megastar wrestler, WCW's rival, and bigger promotion WWF would have accepted him in their company. The exclusion of WWF was deliberate as the film was used as a tool to increase WCW's popularity again.
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Several moves the wrestlers do only work if there is participation from both men and is shown. However, the movie contradicts itself when participation between both men is not being done.
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The championship belt used in the movie is silver in color with small areas in gold. The real WCW belt that looks the same in design is all gold. Its a replica that was re-painted.
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The fight in the convenience store you can see the difference in shades of coloring between the ring mat built into the ground and the real flooring.
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While King and Page wrestle their first match, they discuss the moves they will be doing and when, which is how pro-wrestling works. But they talk way too loud and don't even try to hide the visibility of their mouths moving. This would completely lose the suspension of disbelief which is what wrestling is all about.
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