Cast
- Tim Allen as Eliot Arnold – A divorced man, fired from his job at the Miami Herald and running a struggling advertising agency. His teenage son Matt thinks he is a dork.
- Rene Russo as Anna Herk – Jenny's devoted mother and the reluctant wife of Arthur (even though she thinks he's an idiot). She becomes immediately attracted to Eliot upon meeting him.
- Stanley Tucci as Arthur Herk – A rude and obnoxious man marked for death for embezzling from his company.
- Ben Foster as Matt Arnold – Eliot's son and the "killer" of Jenny. He also develops a crush on her.
- Zooey Deschanel as Jenny Herk – Anna's daughter and a classmate of Matt. She is also Matt's target in the school's game "Killer".
- Tom Sizemore and Johnny Knoxville as Snake Dupree and Eddie Leadbetter – Two bumbling ex-convicts.
- Dennis Farina and Jack Kehler as Henry Desalvo and Leonard Ferroni – Two hitmen hired to kill Arthur for embezzling.
- Janeane Garofalo as Officer Monica Romero – A competent police officer.
- Patrick Warburton as Officer Walter Kramitz – Monica's incompetent fellow officer. Asks his partner Romero out on dates even though he's married.
- Heavy D and Omar Epps as Special Agents Pat Greer and Alan Seitz – Two FBI agents determined to retrieve a missing nuclear bomb.
- Jason Lee as Puggy – A homeless wanderer who loves Fritos and Nina.
- Sofía Vergara as Nina – The Herks' Mexican housemaid. She falls in love with Puggy, who she initially mistook for Jesus.
- Michael McShane as Bruce – The consumer from hell who constantly belittles Eliot's advertisement ideas for his products. He suffers several indignities at the hands of other characters during the movie.
- DJ Qualls as Andrew – Matt's school friend and witness for when Matt "kills" Jenny.
- Andy Richter as Jack Pendick – A security guard with a drinking problem. He sees Matt pointing a squirt gun at Jenny and gives chase while shooting at them with his handgun. Richter also plays Rick, Jack's twin brother, an equally incompetent security guard at the airport. (In the novel the two are brothers but not twins.)
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