Tagline: Protecting America’s assets.
During a routine day spent patrolling his small town, Larry witnesses a beautiful, high-class woman, Madeleine, being held against her will by four mysterious, black-suited men. Recognizing the opportunity to save the day, Larry “kidnaps” her, only to learn that Madeleine is actually a key witness in a high-stakes Chicago crime case and her captors are FBI agents assigned to protect her. Madeleine is furious.
But Larry, who rightly suspects the agents are crooked and Madeleine is in danger, forces her on a harebrained trip to Chicago to solve the case himself. Together, the hilariously mismatched duo must grapple with angry FBI agents, quack doctors and Chicago high society in his funniest, most unpredictable adventure yet.
Larry the Cable Guy returns for another comic misadventure as a small town sheriff who unwittingly gets involved in a high profile FBI case in Lionsgate’s new comedy, Witless Protection. Witness Protection is a 1999 American television movie directed by Richard Pearce. The teleplay by Daniel Therriault is based on a New York Times Magazine article entitled The Invisible Family by Robert Sabbag. It was broadcast by HBO on December 11, 1999 and released on videotape in Portugal (Protecção de Uma Testemunha), Argentina (Protejan al testigo), and Iceland the following year.
Witless Protection (2008)
Directed by: Charles Robert Carner
Starring: Larry the Cable Guy, Ivana Milicevic, Yaphet Kotto, Peter Stormare, Eric Roberts, Joe Mantegna, Jenny McCarthy, Yaphet Kotto, Ivana Milicevic, Dan Waller, Claudia Michelle Wallace
Screenplay by: Charles Robert Carner
Production Design by: Cabot McMullen
Cinematography by: Michael Goi
Film Editing by: Marc Leif
Costume Design by: Susan Kaufmann
Set Decoration by: Lisa Wolff
Art Direction by: David Tennenbaum
Music by: Eric Allaman
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for crude and sex-related humor.
Distributed by: Lionsgate Films
Release Date: February 22, 2008
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