Daddy Day Care
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| Directed by | Steve Carr |
| Produced by | John Davis Wyck Godfrey Matt Berenson Associate Producer: Rufus Gifford Co-Producer: Jack Brodsky Executive Producer: Joe Roth Dan Kolsrud Heidi Santelli |
| Written by | Geoff Rodkey |
| Starring | Eddie Murphy Jeff Garlin Steve Zahn Regina King Anjelica Huston Lacey Chabert |
| Music by | David Newman |
| Cinematography | Steven Poster |
| Editing by | Christopher Greenbury |
| Studio | Revolution Studios Davis Entertainment Day Care Productions |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | May 9, 2003 |
| Running time | 92 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English German Klingon |
| Budget | $60 million |
| Gross revenue | $164.4 million |
| Followed by | Daddy Day Camp |
Daddy Day Care is a 2003 American comedy film, starring Eddie Murphy. It was written by Geoff Rodkey and was directed by Steve Carr. It was released in theaters on May 9, 2003. It was produced by Revolution Studios.
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[edit] Plot
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The story begins with Charlie Hinton, A busy working father and his wife Kim Hinton who has just gone back to work as a lawyer. They enroll their son in the Chapman Academy, a very strict, military-like day care headed by Mrs. Harridan. Soon after, Charlie is laid off after the health division in his company is shut down. Desperate for money and no job offers on the horizon for six weeks, he opens up a day care center under the name of "Daddy Day Care" with the help of his best friend Phil. Due to "Daddy Day Care" being significantly cheaper and more laid back than the Chapman Academy, the Chapman Academy begins to lose popularity. As a result, Mrs. Harridan attempts to shut down Daddy Day Care by notifying Child services that Charlie and Phil are not following the Child services codes.
Mr Cubitz, A director of child services notifies them of the codes that need to be fixed, which Charlie and Phil quickly correct. Daddy Day Care grows in popularity and attracts more children. Miss Harridan finds out and yet again calls Child Services. Mr. Cubitz informs Phil and Charlie that they need another employee to take care of the children as they had 11 children and the ratio of children to carers was 5:1. Luckily, Marvin(a mailroom employee at their old job) had dropped by to drop off Phil and Charlie's last paycheck. Charlie tells Mr. Cubitz that they have hired Marvin. Later, Mr. Cubitz tells them they have too many kids to hold their day care at Charlie's residence. After searching for a new location they find an abandoned building with the potential to hold the day care, However they don't have the money to buy it. In order to raise the money, They hold a fund raising festival called "Rock for Daddy Day Care" which Mrs. Harridan soon finds out about. In an attempt to put a halt to Daddy Day Care, Mrs. Harridan and her assistant go about wrecking the festival by unplugging a bouncy castle causing the kids to get trapped inside, filling all the food with cockroaches and releasing Animals from the petting zoo. Following this Daddy Day Care doesn't raise anywhere near the amount of money required to buy the new facility. Shortly after, Charlie and one of his friends are offered a better job and decide to take it, accepting Mrs. Harridan's offer to take the kids back to the Chapman Academy.
Charlie soon realizes that the job is not what he really wants to do and decides to go to the Chapman Academy and successfully convinces the children and their parents to return to Daddy Day Care making it a raging success and causing the Chapman Academy to be shut down. Mrs. Harridan now takes a job as a crossing guard and her former assistant as an employee of Daddy Day Care at the new facility.
[edit] Cast
- Eddie Murphy as Charlie Hinton
- Jeff Garlin as Phil
- Steve Zahn as Marvin
- Regina King as Kim Hinton
- Anjelica Huston as Ms. Gwyneth Harridan
- Lacey Chabert as Jenny
- Kevin Nealon as Bruce
- Jimmy Bennett as Flash/Tony
- Max Burkholder as Max
- Khamani Griffin as Ben Hinton
- Elle Fanning as Jamie
- Siobhan Fallon Hogan as Peggy
- Wallace Langham as Jim Fields
- Lisa Edelstein as Crispin's Mother
- Hailey Johnson as Becca
[edit] Reception
The film was generally well-received by critics, receiving a "Fresh" score of 79% on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 79/100 on Metacritic, indicating "generally positive reviews". It also won two Academy Awards in 2003, for Best Screenplay and Best Actor. A commercial success as well, it managed to gross over $164 million worldwide and profited from its considerable $60 million budget making the film a box-office success. However, its Murphy-less sequel did not perform as well at the box office.
[edit] Sequel
A sequel was released in 2007 titled Daddy Day Camp with Cuba Gooding, Jr. replacing Eddie Murphy's role as Charlie Hinton. The sequel was panned by critics and is considered a major flop at the box office even though it tripled its budget (barely making over 18 million dollars). The only characters to return from the original movie were Charlie, Phil, Ben, Max, Kim and Becca. In 2007 the film won the Razzie Award for "Worst Prequel or Sequel".
[edit] External links
- Daddy Day Care at the Internet Movie Database
- Daddy Day Care at Box Office Mojo
- Daddy Day Care at Rotten Tomatoes
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