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Released
2007 · FILM

The Game Plan

A star quarterback chasing a championship must suddenly learn to be a devoted dad, juggling high‑stakes games with the chaotic demands of raising his unexpected eight‑year‑old daughter.

Joe Kingman had the perfect game plan to win the championship... but first, he has to tackle one little problem.

Directed by
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
110 min
ComedyFamilySport
Streaming on
  • Disney+

Synopsis

Joe Kingman is a bachelor football star who is wealthy, carefree, and whose team is approaching a championship. He learns that he has a young daughter from a recent liaison with his ex‑wife, prompting him to balance his personal responsibilities with his professional career.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 70+ credited

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 Michael JablowShot by Greg GardinerScored by Nathan WangDesigned by David J Bomba

Box Office

2007 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 6.7× 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

$147.9M

Budget$22.0M
Worldwide gross$147.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $90.6M 61% of worldwide · International: $57.2M (39%)

Opening weekend: $23.0M 25% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $26.5M29% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,103 theaters

Also known as

  • Daddy ohne Plande
  • Maxi papafr
  • Cambio di giocoit

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