DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, commonly referred to as
DodgeBall, is a 2004 American
sports comedy film produced by
20th Century Fox and
Red Hour Productions, written and directed by
Rawson Marshall Thurber and starring
Vince Vaughn and
Ben Stiller. The film focuses on a rivalry between the owners of Average Joe's, a small gym, and Globo-Gym, a competing big-budget gym located across the street. Peter LaFleur (Vaughn), the owner of the smaller gym, has defaulted on his mortgage and enters a
dodgeball tournament in an attempt to earn the money necessary to prevent his gym from being purchased by Globo-Gym to build a new parking lot for their gym members. Globo-Gym enters a team in the tournament in an effort to ensure that Average Joe's gym fails.