Daddy Day Care

Daddy Day Care (2003)

  • 28% of critics liked it
    (125 reviews)

  • 63% of users liked it
    (449,938 ratings)

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 it difficult for him to stay in touch with his young son, Ben (Khamani Griffin). However, after… More

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PG, 1 hr. 32 min.
Directed By
Steve Carr (III), Steve Carr
Written By
Geoff Rodkey
Genres
Comedy, Kids & Family
In Theaters
May 9, 2003 Wide
On DVD
Sep 23, 2003
Sony Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Ed Park, Village Voice

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

  • Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

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

  • 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.

  • Peter Howell, Toronto Star

    Tepid attempt at comedy.

  • C.W. Nevius, San Francisco Chronicle

    A harmless and amusing summer comedy.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Directors C


    [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon13.gif[/img] 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… More

  • Lucas M


    This can't be worse... right?!?! ... Oh wait!!!... they made a sequel?!?! Whole shit!!!!

  • Bethany M


    Eddie Murphy is hilarious in this film!

  • erika b


    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… More

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