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A Balasaur Score of 36 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 5/10, Rotten Tomatoes 14%, Metacritic 15/100. Audiences rate it 35 points higher than critics do. Most of the 432 1990s family movies in this catalog score higher. It runs a compact 1h 29m. Streaming on Prime and Tubi.
Synopsis
A man with an important business meeting finds himself having to take care of the carpool for the neighborhood school children when his wife gets sick. Stopping to get donuts for the kids, things go even more awry when he finds himself a victim of a robbery. However, the situation only gets worse as a desperate man who had been contemplating a bank robbery robs the robbers and takes the man and the kids hostage in their van as his truck is blocked by an armored car. The thing then proceeds into a comedic chase movie. The father finds his kids don't really respect him and they react better to the robber. The end result is everyone gets a lifestyle change, including the original store owner.
Ratings
Audiences rate it 35 points higher than critics do.
93 audience votes
Key crew
- Arthur HillerDirector
- Don RhymerScreenplay
- John DebneyOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Tom ArnoldFranklin Laszlo
- David PaymerDaniel Miller
- Rhea PerlmanMartha
- Rod SteigerMr. Hammerman
- Kim CoatesDetective Erdman
- Rachael Leigh CookKayla
- Mikey KovarAndrew Miller
- Jordan WarkolTravis
- Micah GardenerBucky Miller
- Colleen RennisonChelsea
- Obba BabatundéJeffery
- Ian TraceyNeil
