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 marketing executive at a local food company. He and his wife, Kim, have just enrolled their son Ben into Chapman Academy, an overly academic preschool overseen by the haughty Gwyneth Harridan. However, on Ben's first day, Charlie, his best friend Phil Ryerson, and 300 others are laid off when the company shuts down their division due to the poor reception of their vegetable-flavored breakfast cereals. Charlie breaks the news to Kim and Ben at dinner but assures them he will find a new job.
Cast
- Alyssa Shafer
- Anjelica Huston
- Annabelle Gurwitch
- 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 |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Los Angeles |
| director | Steve Carr |
| editor | Christopher Greenbury |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | act best friend breakfast cereal build child-based child services create crossing guard force gender role hothousing hunt job hunting lay off local food lose market new job nothing overly academic preschool run struggle student-centred learning student orientation suspicious of men traffic jam |
| 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 children's comedy |