Without a Paddle is a 2004 American adventure comedy film directed by Steven Brill, written by Jay Leggett and Mitch Rouse, and based on a story by Harris Goldberg, Tom Nursall, and Fred Wolf.
The film stars Seth Green, Matthew Lillard, Dax Shepard, Ethan Suplee, Abraham Benrubi, Rachel Blanchard, Christina Moore, Bonnie Somerville, Ray Baker, and Burt Reynolds.
It tells the story of three reunited childhood friends going on a trip up a remote river in order to search for the loot of long-lost airplane hijacker D. B. Cooper.
After the funeral, they revisit the group's old tree house and find a map leading to D. B. Cooper's lost treasure, which Billy had apparently been working on for his entire life.
Dan takes annual leave from his job as a doctor and joins Jerry and Tom on a camping trip to find the treasure.
Venturing into the woods with a compass, they find themselves at a pot farm, where rednecks Dennis and Elwood mistake them for thieves and start shooting at them.
The trio stumbles upon the site of Cooper's crash landing, discovering his skeleton and the suitcase he used to hold the ransom money down an old mine shaft.
"[3] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 29 out of 100 based on 27 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".
"[6] Entertainment Weekly's Scott Brown was more positive and wrote: "There are some genuinely clever moments of physical comedy, and the inevitable crudeness is offset by winning whimsy.