In the category of “movies we forgot were coming out this month,” here’s “Fist Fight.” Indeed, it’s just a couple of weeks away, and Warner Bros. seems to have just realized that fact, too, dropping a new red-band trailer for the picture online.
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If the title wasn’t enough of a tip off, the premise is simple: Ice Cube challenges Charlie Day to a fight, and things get R-rated very quickly. Here’s the official synopsis:
Ice Cube and Charlie Day star as high school teachers prepared to solve their differences the hard way. On the last day of the school year, mild-mannered high school English teacher Andy Campbell (Day) is trying his best to keep it together amidst outrageous senior pranks, a dysfunctional administration and budget cuts that are putting his job on the line just as his wife is expecting their second baby. But things go from bad to worse when Campbell crosses the school’s toughest and most feared teacher, Ron Strickland (Ice Cube), causing Strickland to be fired. To Campbell’s shock — not to mention utter terror — Strickland responds by challenging him to a fist fight after school. News of the fight spreads like wildfire as Campbell takes ever more desperate measures to avoid getting the crap beaten out of him. But if he actually shows up and throws down, it may end up being the very thing this school, and Andy Campbell, needed.
Co-starring Tracy Morgan, Jillian Bell, Dean Norris, Christina Hendricks, Dennis Haysbert, JoAnna Garcia Swisher, and Kumail Nanjiani, “Fist Fight” opens on February 17th.