
Daddy Day Camp
2007


“A comedy of the heart and other organs.”
191 votes
An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business and compete against John Kellogg's corn flakes.
Director
Alan ParkerWriters
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Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$25.0M
Revenue
$26.0M
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**_Satire about the health fads of early 1900s’ America_** This is a sophisticated blend of dark humor and documented historical material covering the excessive obsession with wellness of those with the means and time to blow on it. The era involves the late Victorian Age and, specifically, clean-living advocate John Harvey Kellogg (played by Anthony Hopkins) and his crackpot methods employed at the Battle Creek Sanitarium in south-central Michigan. Yet the material is relevant to those today preoccupied with pseudo-scientific quackeries. Think of rigid vegans, PETA zealots, green energy…
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