A man with an important business meeting finds himself having to take care of the carpool for the neighborhood school children when his wife gets sick. Stopping to get donuts for the kids, things go even more awry when he finds himself a victim of a robbery. However, the situation only gets worse as a desperate man who had been contemplating a bank robbery robs the robbers and takes the man and the kids hostage in their van as his truck is blocked by an armored car. The thing then proceeds into a comedic chase movie. The father finds his kids don't really respect him and they react better to the robber. The end result is everyone gets a lifestyle change, including the original store owner.
Acting
Tom Arnold commits fully to unhinged desperate man energy.
Practical Effects
Minivan stunts that definitely insurance nightmare.
Director
Arthur Hiller
Tom Arnold
Franklin Laszlo
David Paymer
Daniel Miller
Rhea Perlman
Martha
Rod Steiger
Mr. Hammerman
Kim Coates
Detective Erdman
Rachael Leigh Cook
Kayla
Jordan Warkol
Travis
Micah Gardener
Bucky Miller
Colleen Rennison
Chelsea
Obba Babatundé
Jeffery
Ian Tracey
Neil
John Tench
Jerry
David Kaye
Scott Lewis
Brian Arnold
News Anchor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Rachael Leigh Cook's first theatrical release, predating her She's All That breakout by three years.
The 1996 minivan dad panic perfectly captures pre-SUV suburban masculinity in crisis.
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