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Daddy Day Care
2003
Advertising executive Charlie Hinton (Eddie Murphy) leads an idyllic suburban life with his wife, Kim (Regina King), and adorable 4-year-old son, Ben (Khamani Griffin). But when Charlie and his buddy, Phil (Jeff Garlin) are let go from their jobs and can no longer afford to send their offspring to ritzy Chapman Academy .. Read more
| Starring | Eddie Murphy, Steve Zahn, Jeff Garlin, Regina King |
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| Director | Steve Carr |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Daddy Day Care
Advertising executive Charlie Hinton (Eddie Murphy) leads an idyllic suburban life with his wife, Kim (Regina King), and adorable 4-year-old son, Ben (Khamani Griffin). But when Charlie and his buddy, Phil (Jeff Garlin) are let go from their jobs and can no longer afford to send their offspring to ritzy Chapman Academy Preschool, they decide to start their own day care centre out of Charlie's house. Things get off to a rocky start, but pick up when word gets out about the affordable rates they offer. Their sci-fi geek pal Marvin (Steve Zahn) jumps on board to help entertain the tots. But competitive Chapman headmistress Miss Harridan (Anjelica Huston) and a by-the-books child services inspector (Jonathan Katz) make sure that Charlie and Phil encounter plenty of hurdles.
Continuing the family-friendly winning streak that Murphy began with the NUTTY PROFESSOR and DR. DOOLITTLE films, DADDY DAY CARE is yet another light comedy for children and parents alike. Quaintly peppered with potty and breast jokes--but with no offensive language--the film allows Murphy's appealing soft side to show once again, and his interaction with his young costars is never less than winning. A handful of fellow Saturday Night Live alumni show up to help (Kevin Nealon, Laura Kightlinger, Siobhan Fallon), and the always-strong Steve Zahn delivers several of the film's best moments.
| Starring | Eddie Murphy, Steve Zahn, Jeff Garlin, Regina King, Kevin Nealon, Lacey Chabert, Anjelica Huston, Siobhan Fallon, Khamani Griffin, Laura Kightlinger |
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| Director | Steve Carr |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 28 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | Czech, Hungarian, Russian |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 24 Nov 2003 Production year: 2003 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (5)
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Kids don't just rule the roost in this amiable comedy — they steal the show. A role reversal romp in the same vein as Mr Mom, what it lacks in originality it makes up for in cuteness and verve. Eddie Murphy and Jeff Garlin play sacked advertising executives who decide to set up a children's day-care centre; cue major mishaps as a house full of angel-faced youngsters turn into marauding monsters — much to the delight of rival childcare provider Miss Harridan (Anjelica Huston), the stern headmistress of a very proper “academy”. This is simplistic, but it does work well. Murphy happily lets his pint-sized co-stars take centre stage and his performance is all the more effective for it, while the mix of parental-themed humour and poignant moments never nauseates. The film may be too sweet for mass appeal, but family audiences will be charmed.
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Charlie (Murphy) and Phil (Garlin) are fired for failing to sell Veggie-O cereal to ungrateful kids. Even when... read more on Time Out
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9 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Good all round family entertainment!
This wasn't laugh a minute, but had plenty of funnies throughout to make it a reasonable effort. Murphy wasn't up to his usual genius, but still provided enough to keep the film going. It is worth a watch, and will definitely keep the kids amused.
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4 out of 6 people found this review helpful
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Good family fun...
A really fun movie for the whole family to sit andwatch, it is a bit of a marshmallowy film that can be a bit too cutesy sweet in places, but like the od marshmallow it can be good fun to ocassionaly taste once in a while, it wont do you any harm to gather the kids up on an afternoon, settle them down, and have a bit of a family bond over what is a decent bit of cine-fun. Yep, I would recommend it for just that.
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