Daddy Day Camp

Charlie Hinton runs a daycare center, and when he wants his son to have the kind of summer camp experience he missed out on as a boy, he and his friend Phil take charge of a rundown camp of their own. Neither man knows much about the outdoors or about repairing the dilapidated buildings, and the children prove hard to manage. As enrollment falls and the place faces the threat of closing, Charlie turns to his estranged father, Buck, a disciplined military man, for help in turning the camp around and in bringing the kids together as a group.

Daddy Day Camp is a 2007 American family comedy directed by Fred Savage, the first film he directed, working from a screenplay by J. David Stem, David N. Weiss and Geoff Rodkey. Cuba Gooding Jr. plays Charlie, with Tamala Jones as his wife, Paul Rae as Phil, Lochlyn Munro as a rival camp operator, Richard Gant as Buck and Brian Doyle-Murray as Uncle Morty, among a credited cast of thirty-one.

Made for about 6 million dollars, the film took in roughly 18 million worldwide. It rated 3.3 out of 10 on IMDb from about 19,000 votes and 4.9 out of 10 on TMDB from around 500 votes, while critics gave it 2.6 out of 10 across eighty reviews, a lower figure than either audience score.