![]() The players are Hogan (Ed Helms), a straight-laced fellow with a much more competitive wife named Anna (Isla Fisher) the puffed-up businessman Bob (Jon Hamm) the constantly stoned Chilli (Jake Johnson) the sardonic Sable (Hannibal Buress) and the invincible Jerry (Jeremy Renner), who’s so fast and strong that he’s never, ever been tagged. But some of the characters’ wives still get involved as helpers, since sneaking up on someone takes a lot of planning and scheming. Since the game is only played in the month of May, the last one tagged has a whole year to live with the shame of being “it.” Since these guidelines were devised by a bunch of 9-year-olds, no girls are allowed. The rules of aggro man-tag are essentially the same as the playground variant: If the person who is “it” touches a person who is not “it,” then that second person becomes “it”-and you definitely don’t want to be “it.” In Tag, there are no winners, just a loser. But it only sporadically acknowledges just how weird and warped its premise actually is. Tag the movie leans into how extreme things have become over time for its heroes, staging silly chase sequences like adrenaline-fueled action scenes. Even a brief scan of that article brings up some alarming details, like the fact that one player’s attempt to surprise another ended with his wife falling and tearing a knee ligament. The movie, directed by Jeff Tomsic and written by Rob McKittrick and Mark Steilen, is based on a true story- a Wall Street Journal article about a whimsical game of tag that lasted 23 years. But this isn’t just a film about guys in their 40s struggling to have sex, get married, or have kids they’re also struggling to keep up the epic game of tag they’ve been playing since they were 9 years old. I understand that many American men still have trouble processing and expressing their feelings in healthy ways. But rather than being seen as malicious, these kinds of moments became an excuse for the group to bond and be there for each other during tough times.If the cinema du Judd Apatow (films like The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up) was the beginning of a comedy-movie trend about goofy man-boys struggling to grow up, Tag has to represent some kind of ultimate nadir. Hollywood also reports that one of the real tags occurred when one of the men’s wives was in the hospital receiving chemotherapy treatment, showing how no difficult moment was off limits to the group. My dad would've thought it was funny,” he explained. “I was in the front row, and so, guys were going up to communion, patting me on the shoulder, and Beef comes up and patted me on the shoulder and mouthed to me, 'You're It.'. Despite the sensitive setting, Shultheis wasn’t bothered by this. In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, real tag member Patrick Schultheis said that much like Ed Helms’ character Hoagie, he was tagged at his father’s funeral. Even though in real life none of the members have ruined each other’s weddings or come up with elaborate booby traps that’d capture those who try to tag the reigning champion, they still have devised plenty of elaborate ways to tag each other.Īnd some of the past antics actually made it into the movie, such as the - wait for it - funeral tag. Instead of crafting risky ways to tag each other filled with elaborate physical stunts like in the movie, however, the real tag team focuses on using the game as a way to continue to bond with each other despite moving to different places and having families. ![]() The WSJ article was written in 2013 by Russell Adams, and it chronicled a group of friends' decades-long game of tag. But much of the movie is based on the real Wall Street Journal article that received national attention. The real men are also vastly different from the movie’s characters in terms of their professions and personalities. ![]() None of the characters are directly based on the members of the actual group, which consists of 10 members instead of five. The events in the movie are exaggerated and given the Hollywood treatment, of course, but the core focus of the story is true. It all might might sound a bit too outlandish for Tag to be a true story - but it turns out it actually is. This proves to be a challenge when, despite how much their lives have changed, Jerry continues to be savvy and cunning, overpowering the gang as they try to tag him. By its 30th anniversary, the guys want to finally tag Jerry (Renner), who throughout the three decades has never successfully been tagged. The group of friends have been playing a decades-long game of tag that starts in May of each year. Tag, the new comedy-action flick starring Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Ed Helms, Hannibal Buress, and Jake Johnson, has a pretty wild storyline.
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