About the Film

Everybody wants to be somebody and Joe Scheffer (TIM ALLEN) is no exception, but he feels like he’s a nobody. Joe has been passed over for a long-promised promotion and he still pines for ex-wife Callie (KELLY LYNCH). Things for Joe go from “ordinary” to worse when Joe is humiliated by the office bully, Mark McKinney (PATRICK WARBURTON) in front of his precocious daughter Natalie (HAYDEN PANETTIERE).

The incident spurs Joe to embark on a quest for redemption… or at the very least a rematch with Mark. The first step: martial arts instruction from Chuck Scarett (JIM BELUSHI), and the second step: a makeover that includes a new hairstyle and wardrobe.

As news spreads of the rematch, Joe makes an unexpected ascent up the corporate ladder. He finds this newfound promotion, popularity and corporate perks intoxicating (a bonus is Callie’s awakening interest in Joe), but daughter Natalie makes it clear she liked her dad the way he was, not this new and improved version.

Also unimpressed with Joe’s transformation is plucky “wellness coordinator” Meg Harper (JULIE BOWEN), to whom Joe has been making tentative romantic overtures. As the showdown with the once-feared colleague nears, Joe is determined to show Meg, Natalie—everybody—that this one-time ‘nobody’ is now a ‘somebody’ to be reckoned with.