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Eddie Murphy, Jeff Garlin, Steve Zahn, Regina King, Kevin Nealon ... see more see more... , Jonathan Katz , Siobhan Fallon-Hogan , Elle Fanning , Lisa Edelstein , Lacey Chabert , Michelle Krusiec , Laura Kightlinger , Leila Arcieri , Anjelica Huston , Khamani Griffin , Cheap Trick , Dennis Cockrum , Annabelle Gurwitch , Wallace Langham , Mary Portser , Roger E. Reid , Tracy Lynch Britton , Don Winston , Sonya Eddy , Fred Stoller , Makenzie Vega , Bess Meisler , Rachael Harris , Gary Owen , Parker McKenna Posey , McNally Sagal , Mark Griffin , Sloane Momsen , Paul Anthony Reynolds , Damani Roberts , Nathan Carter , Felix Achille , Brie Arbaugh , Shane Baumel , Jimmy Bennett , Joan M. Blair , Max Burkholder , Connor Carmody , Timmy Deters , Cesar Flores , Bridgette Ho , Hailey Johnson , Kennedy McCullough , Tara Mercurio , Lisa Oliva , Brian Palermo , Susan Santiago , Alyssa Shafer , Kris Cruz Toledo , Arthur Young , Susan Martino , Siobhan Fallon , Telise Galanis

Two fathers get a crash course in caring for kids other than their own in this family-friendly comedy. Charlie Hinton (Eddie Murphy) is an advertising executive whose job monopolizes his time, making ... read more read more...it difficult for him to stay in touch with his young son, Ben (Khamani Griffin). However, after Charlie and his partner, Phil (Jeff Garlin), are given their pink slips in the wake of a disastrous campaign for a new breakfast cereal, Charlie's wife, Kim (Regina King), goes back to work, and with the family budget tighter than before, Charlie becomes a stay-at-home dad. After pulling Ben out of an expensive and exclusive daycare center run by the humorless Gwyneth Harridan (Anjelica Huston), Charlie comes up with a brainstorm -- since he and Phil watch their own children every day, how much harder could it be to watch a few more kids and open their own day care center? Charlie and Phil discover there's much more to running a daycare center than they ever imagined, but after a very rough start, with the help of likable slacker Marvin (Steve Zahn) their new business becomes a success -- so much so that Harridan finds herself losing customers to the upstart fathers, and she starts searching for a way to shut them down. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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125 critics

PG, 1 hr. 32 min.

Directed by: Steve Carr (III), Steve Carr

Release Date: May 9, 2003

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DVD Release Date: September 23, 2003

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  • aquateen2
    March 31, 2012
    aquateen2
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    Out of all the depressing, lowbrow, dark, idiotic, repugnant family movies Eddie Murphy has created and then cursed cinema with. This is just another one of them. It's a stupid, trashy however passable fl... read moreick. I'm pretty sure I saw a glimmer of heart once or twice.
  • fb100002359227440
    January 11, 2012
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    This can't be worse... right?!?!
    ... Oh wait!!!... they made a sequel?!?!
    Whole shit!!!!
  • spielberg00
    August 12, 2011
    spielberg00
    Bad
  • murphmann93
    June 23, 2011
    murphmann93
    Eddie Murphy is hilarious in this film!
  • erika250
    May 18, 2011
    erika250
    Daddy day care is about 2 men who work at company that make breakfast food. When they tried to make the breakfast food healthier they got fired. Then they decide to open a day care center. The parents was uneasy about guys running a day care because they felt its the women's job... read more to do that kind of work. Will the dads show the world that guys can do that kind of work or will they fail?
    Pros
    Good plot
    Funny
    Con
    Acting was lacking.
    If you want a good family film u should give this a try.
  • DreamExtractor
    February 28, 2011
    DreamExtractor
    Not as stupid as the sequel but still awful
  • bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb1
    July 23, 2010
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    D
  • ythelastman89
    May 18, 2010
    ythelastman89
    I will say that you can watch this movie without hating it or wanting to turn it off, but it is completely worthless and terrible at being an effective or even interesting kid's movie. I don't think much time was spent calculating a message besides the idea that men can watch kid... read mores. It's almost like Kindergarten Cop without the originality, charm and genre clash.
  • fb733768972
    January 11, 2010
    fb733768972
    I was laughing maybe 3 times! This film was sadly, poorly executed!
  • SirPant
    September 29, 2009
    SirPant
    Saw it on TV, was so tired I couldn?t move, waste of an hour and a half!

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Critic Reviews

Ed Park
May 13, 2003
Ed Park, Village Voice

[Murphy's] charming enough in this restrained mode. Full Review

Richard Roeper
May 12, 2003
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

It's one of the worst movies of the year. Full Review

Claudia Puig
May 9, 2003
Claudia Puig, USA Today

Murphy is so oddly bland in Daddy Day Care that it seems like he sleepwalked through the making of the film. Full Review

Peter Howell
May 9, 2003
Peter Howell, Toronto Star

Tepid attempt at comedy. Full Review

C.W. Nevius
May 9, 2003
C.W. Nevius, San Francisco Chronicle

A harmless and amusing summer comedy. Full Review

Peter Travers
May 9, 2003
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Murphy looks comatose delivering the played-out poopy jokes.

Carrie Rickey
May 9, 2003
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer

I don't know whether [Murphy] has lost his mojo, or just his edge. I just hope he finds it before his next movie.

Jay Boyar
May 9, 2003
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel

It's pitched at kids, but adults will be guffawing too.

Stephen Whitty
May 9, 2003
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

Murphy is now as sweet and safe as Jell-O pudding. And about as exciting. Full Review

Eric Harrison
May 9, 2003
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle

Eddie Murphy hasn't made a good movie in so long, I'm starting to think his bad choices are deliberate. Full Review

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