The Game Plan Page #2

Synopsis: Joe Kingman is a huge football star. He's got women, money, and a good career. Everything is perfect for him. Then one day an 8 year old girl shows up at his door telling him that she's his daughter from a past relationship. Once he has proof that she is for a fact his, he tries but fails miserably at "parenting." From problems such as his super speedy car with no backseat, to leaving her in a bar at 3 am, he's got a lot to deal with. Eventually though, she gets him, (and his football team) wrapped around her finger. When she has a near-death experience and Joe finds out her mother died early that year, he wants her to move and live with him. Her aunt though disagrees and takes her home. Joe has to play the game of his life and when he's injured, and things don't look good for him, his daughter comes out and gets him right back on the field.
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Director(s): Andy Fickman
Production: Buena Vista
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
44
Rotten Tomatoes:
29%
PG
Year:
2007
110 min
$90,547,946
Website
2,261 Views


Go ahead, hit me. Come on!

Give it a shot. Come on.

It's ridiculous, isn't it?

Bye-bye.

It's ridiculous.

I don't know what it is you're selling.

Look what I have, here's a hundo.

I don't want any money. I want...

I know. I know what you want. I get it.

It's what the world wants.

An autograph of Joe Kingman.

They all want it, eight to 80.

You'll probably go sell it,

but I'm going to give it to you for free.

Because I'm Joe Kingman,

humanitarian.

Happy New Year. I'll be right back.

You have a bulldog. Come here, boy.

You're so cute.

Easy, easy.

He's a very vicious attack dog.

Yeah. He's going to lick me to death.

Listen, you just can't come walking

into strangers' homes like this.

There are a lot of weirdos out there

in the world.

- Didn't your mom ever teach you that?

- Yeah.

- Well, where is she?

- On an airplane.

On an airplane?

Well, who are you here with?

My father.

Well, you better go get him,

because I'm sure he's looking for you.

- He's not looking for me.

- How do you know?

Because he's looking at me.

What?

Hi, we've never met before.

You were married to my mom, Sara.

Sara Kelly?

My name is Peyton. I'm your daughter.

No. No. Nope. No!

No. Time out.

Sara and I never had a kid.

- She wrote you a note.

- Wrote me a note.

"Joe, I know this is a big surprise,

but Peyton is your daughter.

"I need you to watch her for a month.

It's an emergency.

"I'll explain everything

when I get back. Sara. "

You sure got a lot of pictures

of yourself in here.

You expect me to believe

you're my kid, based on this?

- Anybody could have written this.

- Oh, yeah.

I've also got this.

It's my birth certificate.

Birth certificate?

- Your name is on it.

- My name is...

My name?

Awesome!

Ready? Break!

My name's not on this.

"Joseph Kingman. "

Hut! Hut! Hut!

- We've got a situation.

- Touchdown!

Fix it.

Oh!

Don't you think

you should have told me about this?

- I didn't know.

- You didn't know you had an ex-wife?

That was a long time ago.

We were crazy in love, but too young.

Didn't even last longer than a year,

and we never had a baby.

Okay, but for argument's sake,

is there the teeniest, tiniest possibility

that this child could be yours?

Think hard.

I don't know.

We got the separation,

the divorce was final,

she came by to pick up

a few of her things and then we...

We...

Is anyone else hungry?

- Hungry?

- Joe...

When did this, "We... We...

Is anyone else hungry" happen?

About eight, nine years ago.

- How old are you, kid?

- Eight.

Congratulations, Joe.

This isn't happening to me.

Muffin, just talk to your Auntie Stella.

Hmm?

It says here that your mom

is not coming back for a month.

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