The Game Plan (film)

The Game Plan (film)
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The Game Plan
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Directed by	Andy Fickman
Produced by	Mark Ciardi Gordon Gray
Written by	Nichole Millard Kathryn Price Audrey Wells
Starring	Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson Madison Pettis Kyra Sedgwick Morris Chestnut
Music by	Nathan Wang
Cinematography	Greg Gardiner
Editing by	Michael Jablow
Distributed by	Walt Disney Pictures
Release date(s)	September 28, 2007 March 7, 2008
Running time	110 min.
Country
Language	English
Budget	$22 million (est)
Gross revenue	Domestic: $90,636,983 Worldwide: $144,608,461
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The Game Plan is a 2007 feature film directed by Andy Fickman and starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.

This is the last movie in which Johnson uses his ring name "The Rock."

1 Cast
2 Synopsis
3 Disney links
4 Trivia
5 Box office performance
6 DVD release
7 References
8 External links

Cast

Main

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as Joseph "Joe" Kingman
Madison Pettis as Peyton Kelly
Kyra Sedgwick as Stella Peck
Roselyn Sánchez as Monique Vasquez

Minor

Morris Chestnut as Travis Sanders
Hayes MacArthur as Kyle Cooper
Brian J. White as Jamal Webber
Jamal Duff as Clarence Monroe
Paige Turco as Karen James
Tubbs as Spike the Dog
Lauren Storm as Cindy the Nanny
Gordon Clapp as Coach Mark Maddox
Kate Nauta as Tatyana
Robert Torti as Samuel Blake, Jr.
Gavin Corey as The Boss

Cameos

Paul Pierce - Player
Wally Szczerbiak - attended restaurant opening
Eddie George - attended restaurant opening
Jo Jo White - attended restaurant opening, alongside real life son Brian J. White's character
Ashley Tisdale - Maddie Fitzpatrick (on television)
Brenda Song - London Tipton (on television)
Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana - Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana and voice/performer — "Pumpin' Up the Party"
Aly & AJ - voice/performer — "Do You Believe In Magic"

Synopsis

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The film begins as the Boston Rebels are playing their last game of the regular season and their last chance for playoff berth against their rival New York team. At the end of the game, the Rebels' quarterback Joe Kingman (played by former WWE star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) is looking to score the winning touchdown, with wide receiver Sanders (played by Morris Chestnut) wide open in the end zone, but instead runs it into the end zone himself.

The next morning, Joe gets a surprise when an eight year-old girl named Peyton (played by Madison Pettis) shows up at his doorstep saying that she is his daughter and that her mom sent her here to meet him. Joe's agent, Stella (played by the Closer star Kyra Sedgwick) is not happy about this, thinking it will be bad for Joe's image, and distract him with the playoffs coming up.

At the opening of Joe's restaurant, he leaves without Peyton, and the next morning is on cover of a tabloid titled "BAD DAD". Stella then decides Joe needs a new fatherly image, and trades his expensive car in for a Station Wagon. At a press conference held to explain Joe leaving Peyton at the restaurant, the reporters seem to be making Joe look bad, until Peyton starts speaking and says that Joe is new to this and is trying the best he can, and that she thinks he is the best father in the world. To pay her back for clearing his image at the press conference, Peyton has Joe take her to a ballet academy run by Monique Vasquez (Roselyn Sanchez).

Joe and Peyton begin to bond once Monique has Joe join their ballet performance to show him (in what proves a rather unrealistic manner) that ballet takes just as much athletic ability as football. Joe takes Peyton and her friends to the mall where he begins to get along with Monique.

The Rebels make it to the Championship Game and Stella tells Joe that if he wins, he gets a $25 million endorsement with a successful fast food restaurant run by Samuel Blake Jr. (played by Robert Torti). While at lunch with Peyton and Monique, Peyton accidentally tells Joe that her mother does not know that she is with him, he gets upset at her (and it is attempted to make him look like the one at fault for this), and she has an allergic reaction to nuts in the dessert. Joe rushes her to the hospital.

At the hospital, the doctors tell Joe that she is going to be fine, and then Joe's former sister-in-law & Peyton's legal guardian, Karen (played by Paige Turco) comes and Joe is shocked to see her since Peyton told her she was dead. Karen tells him that it is actually Sara, Joe's ex-wife and Peyton's mother who is dead. Sara died in a car accident six months ago.

After overhearing Stella explaining that Peyton would be a distraction to Joe, Peyton tells Joe she wants to go home with Karen. This saddens Joe and he watches her leave without saying goodbye.

On the day of the championship, Joe is not playing well. He gets sacked many times and allows a lot of fumbles. With less than a minute left in the first half, New York's linebacker hits Joe hard in the shoulder and starts taunting him. Joe isn't able to get back up, so he is carried off the field on a stretcher. At halftime, Joe tells Coach Maddox (played by Gordon Clapp) to put the second string quarterback, Danville, in the game, believing it is what's best for the team.

Later, Peyton comes into the locker room and jokingly asks Joe if he has money on New York. Karen tells Joe that she was wrong and that she needs to be with her father. Peyton convinces him to go back into the game. Joe tells her that she is the best thing that has ever happened to him and goes back out.

With a minute and three seconds left in the game, and the Rebels losing 7-3, Joe passes the ball to the running back, Webber (played by Brian J. White) who runs far in the field. Joe then runs the ball himself to the red zone, gets hit hard, but is able to get back up. Next, with four seconds left in the game, Joe passes the ball to Sanders in the end zone and the Rebels win 9-7. Joe turns down the endorsement with the fast food restaurant and says that he is taking Peyton home with him.

Disney links

In the movie, the featured radio station "WZPZ" is also the radio station on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, probably because both are set in Boston.
In the movie, Joe has problems with the remote, and accidentally turns on the Disney Channel with Hannah Montana (a show in which Johnson himself made an appearance).
When Peyton goes to the tea party place at the mall, in the background you can hear Aly & AJ singing "Do You Believe in Magic" and Hannah Montana singing "Pumpin' Up the Party".
In the movie, Peyton turns on the Disney Channel and you can hear Hannah Montana singing "The Best of Both Worlds".
Robert Torti a The Suite Life of Zack and Cody star who plays the boys' dad and Carey's ex-husband, Kurt, also plays Sam, the owner of Fanny's Burgers in this film.
Disney's Movie Surfers are shown when Peyton messes with the TV.
Madison Pettis, who plays Peyton, also plays Sophie Martinez in Cory in the House.
The Rock has appeared on the hit Disney Channel series Hannah Montana and Cory in the House alongside Madison Pettis as a promotion for the movie.
A clip of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody episode "Forever Plaid" was shown on Joe Kingman's television and a NASCAR clip.

Trivia

This film marks the highest gross revenue made in a movie that starred Dwayne Johnson in a role.

Boston Celtics player Paul Pierce makes a cameo in this film

The film doesn't use actual NFL team names, but they refer to the other teams by their city names, which are all cities with actual NFL teams, for example, Denver, Indianapolis, and New York.

At the end of the film, Kingman threw what is presumably the last pass of his career for a touchdown. Boomer Esiason, who played one of the commentators in the film, also ended his career by having his very last pass go for a touchdown.

The actual New England Patriots stadium and locker room were used.

A spoof was made of the show Nanny 911 when Kingman was choosing a nanny.

Box office performance

The box office perfomance was pretty good.Produced at an estimated cost of 22m US$ , the movie grossed in the U.S and $29,990,000 in foreign ticket sales and a grand total of $137,766,652. It opened at #1 at the box office grossing $22,950,971 in its first weekend in 3,103 theaters and averaging $7,396 per venue. It closed on February 18, 2008 with a final domestic gross of $90,636,983, and an additional $47,129,669 in other territories bringing the worldwide total gross to. This as well as the $45.79 million the film earned on DVD in its stay on the Top 50 chart, clearly makes this film a profitable venture for Disney.

DVD release

The Game Plan was released on Disney DVD and Disney Blu-ray on January 22, 2008. Through April 27, 2008, DVD rentals for The Game Plan were able to stay in the Top 50 chart, while earning more than $48 million.^[1] Special features include deleted scenes, bloopers, and audio commentaries.