Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach

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Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach
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Directed by Danny Leiner
Written byAndy Stock
Rick Stempson
Produced byDanny Leiner
Seann William Scott
Starring
Cinematography Rogier Stoffers
Edited byMatthew Rohrs
Music by John Swihart
Production
company
GreeneStreet Films
Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Release date
  • January 14, 2009 (2009-01-14)(United States)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$15 million
Box office$10,303 [1]

Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach is a 2009 American sports comedy film directed by Danny Leiner (in his final directorial effort before his death) and starring Seann William Scott and Randy Quaid alongside A. D. Miles, Brando Eaton and Leonor Varela. The film follows Gary "The Beast" Houseman (Scott), a high school janitor and former professional tennis player who begins coaching the high school's tennis team, and marks the second collaboration between Leiner and Scott, following Dude, Where's My Car? (2000). Filming took place primarily in Austin and Taylor, Texas.

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Balls Out was released direct-to-video in the United States on January 14, 2009. [2] The film received a limited theatrical release in Iceland on July 15, 2009.

Cast

Production

In April 2006, it was announced that Seann William Scott would be producing and starring in an independent comedy film titled Gary the Tennis Coach. [3]

The screenplay, written by Andy Stock and Rick Stempson, won the 2005 BlueCat Screenplay Competition. [4] The film is set in Lincoln, Nebraska, but was filmed mostly in Austin, Texas, and various locations around the city. The writers are both Lincoln East High School graduates. [5] During post-production, the film's title was changed to Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach.

Release

Balls Out was released direct-to-video by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on January 14, 2009. [6]

References

  1. "Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 15, 2025.
  2. "Ball's Out: The Gary Houseman Story". The Movie Insider. Archived from the original on 4 February 2009. Retrieved March 7, 2009.
  3. "Stifler Becomes "Gary the Tennis Coach"". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved July 15, 2025.
  4. "BlueCat Screenwriting Competition - 2005 Winner". Bluecat Screenplay Competition. Archived from the original on August 26, 2009. Retrieved July 8, 2010.
  5. "Tennis coach is seeing stars with Hollywood screenplay deal". Daily Nebraskan. Archived from the original on July 28, 2012. Retrieved April 6, 2006.
  6. "Balls Out to the Wall". IGN. Retrieved July 15, 2025.