Parental guidance cast movie#

Parental guidance cast movie#

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Kyle Harrison Breitkopf, Bailee Madison, Joshua Rush Accolades Awardīest Performance in a Feature Film - Supporting Young Actor Ten and Underīest Performance in a Feature Film - Young Ensemble Cast Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave it an average grade of 'A−' on an A+ to F scale. The website's critical consensus states: ' Parental Guidance is sweet but milquetoast, an inoffensive trifle that's blandly predictable.' Metacritic gives it a weighted average score of 36 out of 100, based on reviews from 20 critics, indicating 'generally unfavorable reviews'. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 17% based on 92 reviews with an average rating of 3.84/10.

Reception ĭespite generally negative reviews, box office totals for the film were higher than expected. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 26, 2013, from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. Its international release spans from December 19, 2012, to July 11, 2013, with the first 2013 release on January 3, 2013, in the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, and Singapore. The film was released Christmas Day 2012, in the United States and Canada and on Boxing Day 2012, in Australia, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. Afterward, Artie and Diane successfully reconnect with their grandchildren, and Artie takes up a new job as a commentator for an Atlanta Little League Baseball team.

Turner takes her place on stage and overcomes his stutter by reciting the commentary from Shot Heard 'Round The World. The tension comes to a head when Alice discovers Diane has allowed Harper to attend a party the night before a violin recital and Barker claims Carl has been hit and killed by a car.Īlice eventually reconciles with Artie and Diane, and, sensing that Harper has lost her passion for music, allows Harper to withdraw from the recital. Meanwhile, Phil and Alice catch the news broadcast of Artie and Barker's skatepark incident and return to Atlanta. Artie has a discussion with him and shows him the Shot Heard 'Round The World event. Later that day, Diane berates Artie for letting Turner hit his bully after Artie had tried to teach him a lesson about confidence and standing up for himself. Barker escapes from his supervision and nearly gets hurt by a skateboard ridden by Tony Hawk, which is later shown on the news. Alice is horrified, but after Diane tells her that she and Artie will never be good grandparents if she doesn't give them the chance to, she leaves to join Phil in Hilton Head.Īrtie lets Barker skip a playdate he does not like to take him to a skate park where his job interview is being held.

In an attempt to win over his grandchildren, he breaks several of the rules Alice has set for them, such as forbidding them from eating sugary foods and watching horror movies. Artie uses this to his advantage and he arranges an interview for the role of sports commentator. After learning of the children's various problems, such as Harper's 'high achievement syndrome', Turner's stutter and Barker's imaginary friend, Carl the Kangaroo, Artie and Diane try to bond with them.Īlice returns home early when her boss gives her an assignment to redesign the website for the X Games.

Problems arise as Artie and Diane's laidback personalities collide with Phil and Alice's helicopter parenting. After telling his wife Diane the news, they get a phone call from their daughter Alice and son-in-law, Phil, asking them to babysit their three children Harper, Turner, and Barker while the couple leaves for an entrepreneur convention in Hilton Head, South Carolina. It was theatrically released on Decemto negative reviews from critics but was a commercial success, grossing $119.8 million from a $25 million budget.Īrtie Decker, a sports commentator for the minor league Fresno Grizzlies, is fired due to his old-fashioned personality and lack of social media savvy. The film was the final 20th Century Fox one to be financed by Dune Entertainment as part of a deal with the studio shortly after, the company merged with RatPac Entertainment and struck a financing deal with Warner Bros. It stars Billy Crystal, Bette Midler, Marisa Tomei, and Tom Everett Scott, and follows a couple who are asked to look after their grandchildren by their skeptical daughter, while she and her husband are out of town. Parental Guidance is a 2012 American family comedy film directed by Andy Fickman, from a screenplay written by Lisa Addario, and Joe Syracuse.