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The Game Plan (2007)

Reviewed by Scott Brown | Sep 26, 2007

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Scott Brown writes the Hit List for EW and is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio -- he has the tote bag to prove it

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Details Release Date: Sep 28, 2007; Rated: PG; Length: 110 Minutes; Genre: Comedy; With: Dwayne ''The Rock'' Johnson and Kyra Sedgwick

$KID, ROCK Dwayne Johnson is the playboy quarterback who suddenly learns he\'s the dad of a precocious daughter (Madison Pettis)...$

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KID, ROCK Dwayne Johnson is the playboy quarterback who suddenly learns he's the dad of a precocious daughter (Madison Pettis) in The Game Plan

Having tamed one muscled man-child (Vin Diesel in The Pacifier), Disney sets its sights on The Rock. He preens winningly in The Game Plan as Joe Kingman, a star quarterback with the kind of empty, Sharper Image-bachelor-pad life guys are supposed to crave, then deplore on cue when an adorable child (Madison Pettis) arrives. Said kid is Kingman's daughter (surprise result of some long-forgotten sayonara sex), and, oddly, she's not such a handful. The lesson seems to be, ''Think you can't have it all? You can!'' Which, as we know, is what parenting is all about. C

Originally posted Sep 26, 2007 Published in issue #957 Oct 05, 2007 Order article reprints

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