Daddy Day Care

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Daddy Day Care

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Steve Carr
Produced by John Davis
Joe Roth
Wyck Godfrey
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
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Revolution Studios
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 for Columbia Pictures.

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[edit] Plot

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Charlie Hinton is a busy working father and his wife Kim Hinton 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 with the help of two friends, Phil and Marvin. As it became more popular, Chapman Academy became less populated, because Charlie's center, Daddy Day Care, is much cheaper and more laid back. 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 child services director points out the codes that need to be fixed, which Charlie and Phil quickly correct.

Later, Mr. Cubitz tells them they have too many kids to hold their day care at the Charlie's residence. They find a potential new location in an abandoned building, however they must raise the money to buy it. They hold a fund raising festival called "Rock for Daddy Day Care." When Mrs. Harridan finds out about this, she and her assistant decide to wreck it by unplugging a bouncy castle, trapping the kids inside, putting cockroaches in all of the food, and releasing the animals from the petting zoo, causing them to eat the food. This causes Daddy Day Care to not raise anywhere near enough money to buy their new facility.

Charlie and one of his friends are offered a better job and they decide to take it. Mrs. Harridan offers to take all of Daddy Day Care's kids. Charlie soon realizes that the job is not what he really wants to do. He goes to Chapman Academy and successfully convinces the children and their parents to come back, and Daddy Day Care becomes a raging success. This causes Chapman Academy to shut down, Mrs. Harridan to take a job as a crossing guard, and her former assistant to take a job at Daddy Day Care at their new facility.

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[edit] Reception

The film was generally disliked by critics, receiving a "Rotten" score of 25% on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 39/100 on Metacritic, indicating "generally negative reviews", but due to its family-friendly image, 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.

[edit] External links

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