Dadnapped

Melissa Morris is the daughter of Neal Morris, a successful author whose spy novels about a teenage hero have made him famous. Melissa feels pushed aside by her father's busy schedule and by the fictional character who seems to matter more to him than she does. When the two set off on a long-awaited trip together, Neal insists on stopping first at an event held in his honour, where a group of obsessive fans abducts him. To bring him home, Melissa has to draw on her own resources and work with an unlikely group of allies.

Dadnapped is a Disney Channel television film directed by Paul Hoen, the seventh of the sixteen features he has directed in chronological order, following The Cheetah Girls: One World and preceding Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam. Alan Silberberg wrote the screenplay, Don Schain produced, and the cast of twenty-four is led by Emily Osment as Melissa, with David Henrie, Jason Earles, George Newbern, Phill Lewis and Jennifer Stone. Made for a budget of five million dollars, it mixes action, adventure and comedy in a family-friendly crime story.

Audience response was modest. On IMDb it holds a rating of 4.8 from around 3,500 votes, and on TMDB it sits at 5.3 from roughly 244 votes.