The Game Plan

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The Game Plan

PG

Released Sep 28, 2007

1h 50m

Kids & Family

Comedy

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Bachelor football star Joe Kingman (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) seems to have it all. He is wealthy and carefree, and his team is on the way to capturing a championship. Suddenly, he is tackled by some unexpected news: He has a young daughter (Madison Pettis), the result of a last fling with his ex-wife. Joe must learn to balance his personal and professional lives with the needs of his child.

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Critics Consensus

Despite The Rock's abundant charisma, The Game Plan is just another run-of-the-mill Disney comedy.

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Nell Minow

Movie Mom

Rated: B-

Feb 18, 2012

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Hank Sartin

Time Out

Rated: 2/5

Nov 18, 2011

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Stephen Garrett

Time Out

Rated: 2/5

Nov 17, 2011

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

Boasts enough comedy to get by, ensuring reasonable entertainment for its target audience.

Rated: 6/10

Nov 24, 2020

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Micheal Compton

Bowling Green Daily News

There are moments where "The Game Plan" works, mostly involving Johnson, but for the most part, this is a forgettable film that won't even matter come October.

Nov 21, 2019

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Kevin Carr

7M Pictures

In many ways, The Game Plan is really just a big-budget, feature-film version of a Disney Channel Original Movie.

Rated: 3/5

Jun 3, 2014

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burner l

not good but not bad either, its exactly a very family friendly movie that sounds and its for disney channel, its not impressive but its enjoyable to watch with kids or in a boring friday. the reviews back in 2007 didnt know what they were talking about, literally all we get now are slops with the rock in it, at least he was more human here in this one

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

11/24/24

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Milan S

Another case of Critics not knowing what their talking about and looking at a film with less emotion than a stone. Ignore the useless tomatoes for this film. A brilliant feel good movie.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/02/24

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Dale R

Starring Dwayne Johnson as a bachelor pro football quarterback who finds out he has an eight year-old daughter played by Madison Pettis. A good portion of the comedy in this movie is from awkward comedic scenes that I am not a fan of. The acting in this film seemed inconsistent in tone, as if some actors didn’t quite take the role as seriously as it should have been while others were. This would point to the director being the problem. I did enjoy the first half of the third act before the big finale, but the rest of the movie is a snooze-fest that even the charisma of Dwayne Johnson couldn’t save. Skip this movie.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

07/07/24

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Nathan G

Great family and kids movie from Disney.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/08/24

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Lou T

Taking on the surprised single dad story, The Game Plan lands Dwayne Johnson in the hot seat, early in his movie career. Playing the self absorbed football player, Joe Kingman, Johnson stars aside the adorable Madison Pettis as his long lost daughter Peyton Kelly. While the premise is fairly basic, the duo add a loving charm to the story and fully invest you into it. Though the acting is cheesy throughout and not every joke lands, that isn't going to turn viewers away from this cute film. The Game Plan doesn't break new ground in terms of its type of film, but it is quite fun and enjoyable for the whole family.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/02/24

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Logan D

Acting is alright. The rock is painfully bad at any scenes other than be macho man especially any sort of emotional scenes. Luckily, he had very minimal emotional scenes. The story screams Disney so it's incredibly predictable with decent comedy and a heartfelt ending.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

12/03/23

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Andy Fickman

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Dwayne Johnson

Joe Kingman

Madison Pettis

Peyton Kelly

Kyra Sedgwick

Stella Peck

Roselyn Sanchez

Monique Vasquez

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Synopsis

Bachelor football star Joe Kingman (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) seems to have it all. He is wealthy and carefree, and his team is on the way to capturing a championship. Suddenly, he is tackled by some unexpected news: He has a young daughter (Madison Pettis), the result of a last fling with his ex-wife. Joe must learn to balance his personal and professional lives with the needs of his child.

Director: Andy Fickman
Producer: Mark Ciardi, Gordon Gray
Screenwriter: Nichole Millard, Kathryn Price
Distributor: Walt Disney
Production Co: Buena Vista Pictures
Rating: PG (Some Mild Thematic Elements)
Genre: Kids & Family, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 28, 2007, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 13, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $90.6M
Runtime: 1h 50m
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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