Daddy Day Care
Daddy Day Care is a 2003 American family comedy film starring Eddie Murphy in the lead role, Jeff Garlin, Steve Zahn, Regina King, and Anjelica Huston. Written by Geoff Rodkey and directed by Steve Carr, it marks Murphy and Carr's second collaboration after Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001). The plot follows two fathers who start a child day care out of their home after they are laid off from their corporate jobs.
Plot
Charlie Hinton is a market executive at a local food company. He and his wife Kim have just enrolled their son Ben into Chapman Academy, an over academic preschool held by the haughty Gwyneth Harridan. However, on the day they enrolled him, Charlie and his best friend, Phil Ryerson, find themselves (along with 300 others) fired when their boss, CEO Jim Fields, shuts down the company's entire health division due to children disliking new, healthy breakfast cereals made from vegetables. Charlie then breaks the news to Kim and Ben at dinner. Charlie assures them he’ll find a new job.
Cast
- Alyssa Shafer
- Anjelica Huston
- Annabelle Gurwitch
- Arthur Young
- Cheap Trick
- Eddie Murphy
- Elle Fanning
- Jeff Garlin
- Jimmy Bennett
- Kevin Nealon
- Khamani Griffin
- Lacey Chabert
- Laura Kightlinger
- Leila Arcieri
- Lisa Edelstein
- Mark Griffin
- Michelle Krusiec
- Rachael Harris
- Regina King
- Samuel De Ryck
- Siobhan Fallon Hogan
- Steve Zahn
- Telise Galanis
- Wallace Langham
More details
author | Geoff Rodkey |
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contentLocation | Los Angeles |
director | Steve Carr |
editor | Christopher Greenbury |
genre | comedy |
keywords | act best friend bond breakfast cereal build car driver child-based child services crossing guard face paint force gender role good time hothousing hunt job hunting lawyer local food lose market meet new job nothing preschool run struggle student-centred learning student orientation surround suspicious of men trailer park |
musicBy | David Newman |
producer | John Davis Wyck Godfrey |
productionCompany | Columbia Pictures Davis Entertainment Revolution Studios |
publisher | Sony Pictures Releasing |
recordedAt | California |
theme | buddy comedy children's comedy |