Daddy Day Care
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 Khamani Griffin and Anjelica Huston
Music by	David Newman
Cinematography	Steven B. Poster
Editing by	Christopher Greenbury
Distributed by	Revolution Studios
Release date(s)	May 9, 2003
Running time	92 min.
Language	English/German
Budget	$60,000,000 (estimated)
Followed by	Daddy Day Camp (2007)
IMDb profile

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Summary

A busy working father is fired after the health division in his company was shut down. Desperate for money, he opens up a day care center with the help of two friends. As it became more populated, a nearby school became less populated; due to the fact Daddy Day Care was much cheaper. The head mistress of that school attempts to shut down Daddy Day Care but fails. The main character and his friend are offered a better job and they decide to take it. The main character soon realizes that the job isn't what he wants to do. He returns to Daddy Day Care only to learn that everybody left and went to the expensive school. He successfully convinces the children and their parents to come back, and Daddy Day Care becomes a success.

Cast

• Eddie Murphy as Charlie Hinton, the main character and the man who runs the Daddy Day Care center after being fired from a health food division
• Jeff Garlin as Charlie's main assistant, Phil, who was also fired
• Steve Zahn as Charlie's other assistant Marvin, who is a trekkie.
• Regina King as Charlie's wife, Kim, who, at first, wasn't for Daddy Day Care's opening
• Kevin Nealon as Bruce, an annoying man who works with Charlie in marketing
• Anjelica Huston as Ms. Harridan, the head of a rival day care center called "Chapman Academy"

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Reception

The movie was generally panned by critics, but due to its family-friendly image, it managed to gross over $104 million at the U.S. box-office and profited from its considerable $60 million budget. The concept of family friendly entertainment or information, or of the media carrying them being so, is an aspect of the family values controversy in American political and social discourse. ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... Jazz Festival box Office, Edmonton A box office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to a venue. ... Look up budget in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Music

Soundtrack listing:

1. Walking On Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves

2. Takin’ Care Of Business - Bachman-Turner Overdrive

3. I Want You Back - Jackson 5

4. Coconut - Harry Nilsson

5. Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell

6. I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramones

7. Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas

8. Dream Weaver - Gary Wright

9. Ballroom Blitz - Sweet

10. Surrender - Cheap Trick

11. ABC - Jackson 5

12. I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow

Also, in the scene where Charlie opens the door to a bathroom, the famous music from "Psycho" is used. Psycho is a 1960 suspense/horror film directed by auteur Alfred Hitchcock from the screenplay by Joseph Stefano about a psychotic killer. ...

Taglines: "D-Day Is Coming"/"Who's your daddy?"/"He's the Daddy!"

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.
• 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.
• When Ben draws a picture of Charlie and himself, he says that he drew a green moustache but there is no moustache on the picture.
• The sequel, Daddy Day Camp, was announced on an episode of the Tonight Show, when Cuba Gooding, Jr. mentioned that he would be replacing Eddie Murphy in the role of Charlie after Eddie declined.

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External links

• Daddy Day Care at the Internet Movie Database