Daddy Day Care
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| Daddy Day Care | |
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| Image:Daddy Day Care movie.jpg Daddy Day Care promotional movie poster | |
| Directed by | Steve Carr |
| Produced by | Matt Berenson John Davis Wyck Godfrey |
| Written by | Geoff Rodkey |
| Starring | Eddie Murphy Jeff Garlin Steve Zahn Regina King and Anjelica Huston |
| Music by | David Newman |
| Cinematography | Steven B. Poster |
| Editing by | Christopher Greenbury |
| Distributed by | Revolution Studios |
| Release date(s) | May 16, 2003 |
| Running time | 92 min. |
| Language | English/Klingon/German |
| Budget | $60,000,000 (estimated) |
| IMDb profile | |
Daddy Day Care is a 2003 comedy film written by Geoff Rodkey and directed by Steve Carr which tells the story of an unemployed father who convinces his male friends to help him to start a day care center. It stars Eddie Murphy (Charlie Hinton, the main character and the man who runs the Daddy Day Care center), Jeff Garlin (Charlie's main assistant Phil), Steve Zahn (Charlie's other assistant Marvin, who is a big Star Trek fan), Regina King (Charlie's wife, Kim), Kevin Nealon (Bruce, a man who works with Charlie in marketing), Anjelica Huston (Ms. Harridan, the head of a rival day care center called "Chapman Academy") and Elle Fanning (Jamie, one of the day care kids).
One child speaks only in Klingon. Another child, Tony (played by Jimmy Bennett), believes he is the superhero The Flash and refuses to take off his costume.
The movie was generally panned by critics, but due to its family-friendly image, it managed to gross over $100 million at the U.S. box-office and profited from its considerable $60 million budget.
"Daddy Day Care" contains several old songs like "Kung Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas, and "I Want You Back" and "ABC" by The Jackson 5. Also, in the scene where Charlie opens the door to a bathroom, the famous music from "Psycho" is used.
Taglines: "D-Day Is Coming"/"Who's your daddy?"/"He's the Daddy!"
[edit] Trivia
- Whenever a scene was in action that involved Eddie Murphy and the kids, the kids had problems adjusting to the name "Charlie" because they knew Eddie by his real name. This caused problems during takes.
- There was a supposed sequel in production called Daddy Day Camp. However, on a Tonight Show appearance, Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Jay Leno accidentally spilled the beans about him replacing Eddie Murphy for a sequel.
- A parody has been made into an unaired sketch of Chappelle's Show on the Lost Episodes Uncensored DVD. It stars a Jeff Garlin lookalike and Charlie Murphy.
- The scene in which Murphy and Garlin discover the empty costume of "The Flash" homages a similar scene in the epochal comic-book miniseries Crisis on Infinite Earths.
