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Daddy Day Care (2003)

★ 5.9 · 2,244 ratings on TMDB

Who's your daddy?

Daddy Day Care poster★ 5.9

Two men get laid off and have to become stay-at-home dads when they can't find jobs, which inspires them to open their own day-care center.

DirectorSteve Carr
CastEddie Murphy, Jeff Garlin, Jonathan Katz, Kevin Nealon, Lacey Chabert, Laura Kightlinger
GenresComedy, Family
The emergence reading

Daddy Day Care keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same people

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