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Released
2007 · FILM

Daddy Day Camp

A struggling day-care owner opens his own summer camp to give his son the childhood he never had, but must battle financial ruin and a cutthroat rival to keep it alive.

“The summer is going to be in tents.”

Directed by
Fred Savage
Written by
Geoff Rodkey, J David Stem
Runtime
89 min
ComedyFamily

Synopsis

A neighborhood daycare operator, hoping to provide his son with the fulfilling summer camp experience he never had as a child, establishes his own camp. However, he soon encounters financial difficulties and strong competition from a rival camp.

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How many hands made this film

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Principal cast & crew: 25

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Michel AllerShot by Geno SalvatoriScored by Jim DooleyDesigned by Eric Weiler

Box Office

2007 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.0× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$18.2M

Budget$6.0M
Worldwide gross$18.2M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $13.2M — 73% of worldwide · International: $5.0M (27%)

Opening weekend: $1.5M — 11% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $1.5M — 11% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,184 theaters

Also known as

  • Der Kindergarten Daddy 2: Das Feriencampde
  • École paternelle 2fr
  • Il campeggio dei papàit

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