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A Balasaur Score of 42 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 5.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes 6%, Metacritic 38/100. Audiences rate it 17 points higher than critics do. Most of the 2,371 2000s comedy movies in this catalog score higher. It runs a compact 1h 30m. Streaming on Prime.
Synopsis
Admiral Frank Beardsley returns to New London to run the Coast Guard Academy, his last stop before a probable promotion to head the Guard. A widower with eight children, he runs a loving but tight ship, with charts and salutes. The kids long for a permanent home. Helen North is a free spirit, a designer whose ten children live in loving chaos, with occasional group hugs. Helen and Frank, high school sweethearts, reconnect at a reunion, and it's love at first re-sighting. They marry on the spot. Then the problems start as two sets of kids, the free spirits and the disciplined preppies, must live together. The warring factions agree to work together to end the marriage.
Ratings
Audiences rate it 17 points higher than critics do.
925 audience votes
Key crew
- Raja GosnellDirector
- Ron BurchScreenplay
- David KiddScreenplay
- Christophe BeckOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Dennis QuaidFrank Beardsley
- Rene RussoHelen North
- Rip TornCommandant Sherman
- Linda HuntMrs. Munion
- Jerry O'ConnellMax Algrant
- David KoechnerDarrell
- Danielle PanabakerPhoebe North
- Drake BellDylan North
- Lil J.J.Jimi North
- Sean FarisWilliam Beardsley
- Katija PevecChristina Beardsley
- Miranda CosgroveJoni North
