Playdate is a 2025 American buddy action comedy film directed by Luke Greenfield and written by Neil Goldman. It stars Kevin James and Alan Ritchson alongside Sarah Chalke, Alan Tudyk, Benjamin Pajak, Banks Pierce, Hiro Kanagawa, Stephen Root, and Isla Fisher. The film follows Brian (James), a recently unemployed accountant and father who sets up a playdate with stay-at-home dad Jeff (Ritchson), with the two then being targeted by mercenaries along with their sons (when Jeff reveals he and his “son” are on the run from both the military and the authorities).

Plot

Recently laid-off forensic accountant Brian Jennings struggles to adjust to life as a stay-at-home dad for his stepson Lucas, who is bullied at school for being effeminate and uninterested in sports. While his wife Emily returns to work at the hospital, Brian hopes to help Lucas make friends and arranges a playdate with Jeff Eamon, a charismatic and hyper-athletic stay-at-home dad new to the neighborhood, and his eerily strong (plus emotionally stunted) young son CJ.