Step Brothers 2008

Step Brothers is a 2008 American comedy film directed by Adam McKay, produced by Jimmy Miller and Judd Apatow, and written by Will Ferrell and McKay from a story by Ferrell, McKay, and John C. Reilly. Ferrell and Reilly star as Brennan Huff and Dale Doback, immature middle-aged men who still live with their single parents and are forced to share a home after their parents marry. Richard Jenkins, Mary Steenburgen, Adam Scott, and Kathryn Hahn are in supporting roles. Developed from a single bunk-bed gag image into a premise about adult arrested development, the film was conceived by McKay and Ferrell as a comparatively contained, house-centered production that could be driven by ensemble improvisation. That approach shaped writing and casting, and filming began in the summer of 2007, including work on soundstages at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California, where long takes and risk-taking generated extensive footage for the edit.